The Lord God is not making any more water. It’s all being recycled. So we need to keep his water clean, and...
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Case Studies: Clarifiers, Digesters, Water Towers, Structures and Components
Press moves discharge permit approval, reduces costs
ProblemDave Hapchuk owns and operates a septage receiving facility where he pretreats septage from his operation...
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Industry News - August 2022
MFG Chemical names Todd Viens CFO
MFG Chemical has hired Todd Viens as chief financial officer. In addition to managing the finance functions,...
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A Florida Plant Dramatically Improves the Solids Side With a $100 Million Upgrade
A major upgrade to the solids process at a Florida clean-water plant has improved efficiency, reduced costs and enabled production of energy.
The $100 million...
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A Maryland Operator Rallied His Team and Led With Conviction Through a Challenging Time
Imagine you buy a house and on the day you’re to move in it is half finished and teeming with construction workers.
That’s...
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Industry News: June 2022
MFG Chemical names Todd Viens CFOMFG Chemical has hired Todd Viens as chief financial officer. In addition to managing the finance functions,...
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Case Studies: Odor Control and Disinfection
Continuous ion exchange technology utilized to combat rising nitrate levels
Problem
The city of Bayard, Nebraska was experiencing rising nitrate levels in their water and...
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A New Hampshire Plant Keeps Humming Along Through a Four-Year Upgrade
To call the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility a success story is an understatement.
The plant, recently upgraded to advanced secondary treatment and...
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An Illinois Plant Deploys the Aero-Mod SEQUOX Process to Provide Biological Treatment With Room to Grow
The Village of Hinckley needed to upgrade its rotating biological contactor plant to activated sludge to meet a consent decree.
Looking to minimize impact...
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Revenue from Septage Keeps a Clean-Water Plant Financially Sound After a Major Discharger's Departure
The Richmond clean-water plant was humming along just fine until the Vermont town’s creamery shut down in 1999.
“With the creamery, our flows...
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Constantly Learning. Always Adapting. Those Are the Keys to This Lab Leader's Success
“Once you get into wastewater, you don’t leave.”
That’s Amanda Tobin’s observation after nearly 18 years in laboratories, 16 of them devoted to wastewater....
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Replacement of Gorman-Rupp Pumps with Higher-Performance Units From the Same Company Is Key to Reducing Bypasses
The Ohio city of Shelby recently upgraded its activated sludge wastewater treatment plant to double its capacity to 5 mgd while expanding capability...

















