Entry 243375Operators in Lake County, Illinois, are using molasses as an essential part of its wastewater treatment process, according to a recent...
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News Briefs: Insufficient Filter Monitoring Blamed for Lewes WWTP Discharges
Entry 243516A recent report on what went wrong at Lewes (Delaware) Wastewater Treatment Plant back in December lists insufficient monitoring and maintenance...
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Diana Heimbach Started Her Wastewater Career by Working in the Laboratory. Now She's a Project Manager.
If Diana Heimbach needs a break from work, she can always head out to her parents’ farm and tend the dairy goats.
But...
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News Briefs: Waste Spill Fills Pump Room to Its Ceiling in Colorado
Entry 244221Wastewater treatment plant workers in Craig, Colorado, came into work recently to find wastewater up to the ceiling. Turns out, a...
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News Briefs: Teen Invents Microplastic Removal Technique
Entry 244235An Irish teenager has come up with an idea to remove microplastic pollution from the world’s waterways as part of the...
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A Pennsylvania Authority Finds a Clean, Neat, Efficient Solution for Moving Beyond Class B Biosolids
For decades, the City of Lebanon Authority in Pennsylvania applied Class B biosolids to cropland in liquid or cake form. But in...
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News Briefs: Former WWTP Superintendent Pleads Guilty to Clean Water Act Violation
Entry 244306Gary Hallinan — the former superintendent of the Oswego (New York) Wastewater Treatment Plant — has pleaded guilty in federal court...
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News Briefs: Los Angeles Aims to Recycle All Its Water By 2035
Los Angeles, California, Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced a new goal for the city to recycle 100 percent of its wastewater by...
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News Briefs: Operator Accused of Stealing Water From Town for a Decade
Entry 244691The former water systems operator for Hounsfield, New York, is accused of stealing water from the same town he served using...
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Philadelphia Is Using Mussels as Mini Treatment Plants
Living organisms have always been a part of water treatment, but a first-of-its-kind facility in Philadelphia is advancing that concept from microscopic...
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News Briefs: New Phosphorus Regs in Wisconsin Could Force Upgrades for WWTPs
Entry 245048Around a dozen wastewater treatment facilities in Wisconsin could be compelled to spend more than $16 million to comply with new...
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An Alligator Was Drawing Crowds at a Pennsylvania WWTP
Crowds gathered recently at a wastewater treatment plant in Mineral Springs, Pennsylvania, where an alligator was swimming after being spotted by PennDot...
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News Briefs: Operator Accused of Burying 86 Drums of Waste, Embezzlement
Dennis Falaschi, former manager of the Panoche (California) Water District, was arrested along with four other people on charges of embezzlement and...
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News Briefs: Houston Police Seek WWTP Break-In Suspects
The Houston (Texas) Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a trio of suspects who allegedly recorded a video of...











