Entries Tagged Phosphorus Removal

Phosphorous regulations are getting tougher for clean-water plants. One way to drive down effluent phosphorous levels is through tertiary filtration. For that purpose,...

Water-quality professionals are confirming what fishermen and boaters on U.S. waterways already know: Nutrient pollution is increasingly damaging the water environment.In its...

Facing expanding coverage territories and stricter regulations regarding the concentrations of nitrates and phosphorous in treated wastewater, the Wareham (Massachusetts) Water Pollution...

Boise, Idaho, is proving there’s more than one way to skin the phosphorus cat.Facing ever-increasing phosphorus removal requirements, the city could have...

The Marlborough, Massachusetts, Easterly Wastewater Treatment Facility, was faced with an extremely stringent total phosphorus (TP) permit limit of 0.1 mg/L (60-day...

A coalition of Minnesota municipalities awaits response to a letter they’ve sent to the governor and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency stating...

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the results of a national assessment showing that nutrient pollution is widespread in the nation’s...

U.S. Water, a national provider of integrated solutions for water treatment, has been selected as a finalist by the R&D 100 Award...

I really should do this more often. Last May, I attended the Southeast Region Meeting of the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Association, hosted...

Clean-water plants facing tough new permit limits on phosphorus increasingly look upstream. Some states allow innovative methods for phosphorus reduction in waterways...

Phosphorus.Every wastewater treatment plant manager knows that meeting new limits for phosphorus can be very costly. But managers also know that controlling...

A class-action lawsuit, filed by Eleni Delopoulos, 37, and represented by national law firm Hagens Berman, claims the City of Philadelphia put...

“Never forget that you live at the mouth of the largest freshwater estuary in the world. And never forget the great responsibility...