Christopher Murphy is trying to put wastewater to work. As superintendent of the Great Neck (New York) Water Pollution Control District, he...
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A New York District Drives Down Power Consumption While Pushing up On-Site Power Production
Entries Tagged Pumps
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Better Through Chemistry
Since 1995, the Florida city of Vero Beach used Jones and Attwood twin rotary drum thickeners (Ovivo USA) and two aerobic digesters...
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Plant Ensures Quality Effluent Through Sound Maintenance and Continuing Education for Staff
There’s nothing fancy about the Pascagoula/Moss Point (Mississippi) Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. Day by day, year by year, it churns out clean...
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Ditching a Piecemeal Plan in Favor of Comprehensive WWTP Overhaul
Sometimes the best of plans and intentions run into hurdles that can’t be cleared.
That’s what happened when the New York village of...
EBARA announces consolidation of divisions
EBARA Corp. announced it has consolidated its Ebara International Corp. - Fluid Handling Division and Custom Pump Divisions into a new independent...
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Prestonsburg Water Plant Team Members Deal With an Expansive Territory and Variable Source Water
The eastern Kentucky city of Prestonsburg sits in a valley of the Appalachian foothills, and from there, the water utility’s pipes stretch...
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Experience and Cross-Training Make Rocky Mount Team Members Highly Self-Reliant
Staff members at the Rocky Mount (Virginia)wastewater treatment plant don’t mind getting their hands dirty. In fact, that’s a point of pride,...
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This Award-Winning Virginia Water Plant Excels at Treatment Performance and Operator Training
Each year from 2013-16, the water filtration plant in Salem, Virginia, has earned a Gold Award from the Office of Drinking Water...
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A Love of Science Led to a Rewarding Career for Laboratory Specialist Suzanne Potts
Studying to be a dentist didn’t light a fire of enthusiasm for Suzanne Potts, but it did ignite her love of chemistry...
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A Passion for Answers
Brandon Pechin has never shied away from a challenge.For years, he ran his own property maintenance business. He later helped the city...
Reuse, Recovery and Energy Management
Treatment plant uses microturbines to generate heat and powerProblem: In upgrading the boiler used to heat anaerobic digesters at the 15 mgd...
A.Y. McDonald 8300 E-Series jet pump
The all iron 8300 E-Series jet pump from A.Y. McDonald is offered in 1/2 through 1 1/2 hp with flows up to...
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Building a New Life for Old Pumps
Big pumps at older water and wastewater treatment plants often show their age by way of lost efficiency and unreliability. Pumps perhaps...
