Entries Tagged Oxidation Ditch

In 2004, plagued by filamentous growth that threatened performance, the operators of the Commerce Township (Mich.) Wastewater Treatment Plant devised a makeshift...

For a facility serving a population of 3,300, the City of West Liberty (Iowa) Wastewater Treatment Plant handles large flows and...

The Gallatin (Tenn.) Wastewater Treatment Facility used to pay farmers 2.5 cents per gallon — up to $25,000 per month — to...

Turbo aerator The Turbo X-Treme aerator from Airmaster Aerator is a high-efficiency, floating/surface unit powered by an energy-saving 25 hp motor....

Walk around the new Rock Falls (Ill.) Water Reclamation Facility and you can see and feel that it’s different. Skylights and windows brighten...

When the Willmar (Minn.) Wastewater TreatmentPlant needed more capacity, better odor control and the ability to meet stricter effluent limits, the city...

When the 3.85 mgd Coatesville (Pa.) Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant needed to increase capacity and meet more stringent permit limits, owner Pennsylvania...

It might not have been the parting of the Red Sea, but the early-morning chlorine contact chamber diversion at the Middle Oconee...

When the city of El Dorado, Kan., needed to upgrade its trickling filter/rotating biological contactor plant to meet ammonia limits and deal...

Back in 1861, two surveyors camping in the wilderness of what is now Huron County, Mich., found a badly damaged axe. The...

Growing up in East Chicago, Ind., Pete Baranyai sometimes saw snow tinted orange or blackened with soot from particulate matter released by...

If Tim Woodward weren’t such a hard-charger, he might not be superintendent of the award-winning Turkey Creek (Ind.) Regional Sewer District Wastewater...

For years the American-Bath Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in northwest Ohio’s Allen County had met stringent phosphorus limits through biological removal and...