If there’s a great before and after story
in municipal wastewater treatment, it could be Kankakee, Illinois.
Before 2010, the Kankakee River Metropolitan...
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A $58 Million Plant Upgrade Sets Kankakee Operators Up for Success
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Energy efficient digestion
Aerobic digestion is often the second largest consumer of energy — after biological treatment aeration — at a wastewater treatment plant. With...
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Asahi/America Type-57P butterfly valveAsahi/America’s Type-57P butterfly valve is available in an ANSI wafer-style connection and includes two molded tag holes in the...
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Cross-Training and In-House Improvement Projects Help the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary District Keep Quality Up, Costs Down
Cross-training staff in all facets of treatment plant operations, maintenance and laboratory analysis is yielding big dividends at the Carpinteria (California) Sanitary...
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Too Much Rain Leads to Upgrades for Vermont WWTP
Rainy days used to spell trouble for the Enosburg Falls (Vermont) Wastewater Treatment Facility in the form of combined sewer overflows. That...
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Operators Discover a 'Toy Store' of Technology at Virginia Plant
An operator joining the team at the Millard H. Robbins Jr. Water Reclamation Plant will find enough processes, learning opportunities and challenges...
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Kimmswick WWTP Has All the Right Pieces for Exceptional Operation
You could easily say the Kimmswick Wastewater Treatment Facility has all the parts in place for award-winning performance.The eight plant operations and...
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Neither Construction nor Chaos Could Stop These Operators
They were indispensable. Five professionals kept on going amid the chaos of building a new wastewater treatment plant in Nova Scotia, working...
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Operator’s Research Saves Plant Millions of Dollars
Go the extra mile. For Ricardo “Rick” Cantu, that’s more than a saying — it’s how he defined his life in wastewater...
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Virginia Plant Tackles Tightening Nutrient Permit Limits With Gusto
Thirty-five years ago, the wastewater treatment plant serving the east half of Virginia’s Prince William County lay mostly isolated, surrounded by woods.Today,...
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When Energy Efficiency Becomes Your Plant's Priority
Energy efficiency is part of the discussion in almost every upgrade at the Franklin (New Hampshire) Wastewater Treatment Facility.It may not be...
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The Decision Maker: How La Plata Plant Became an Award-Winner
Heavy runoff caused sanitary sewer overflows in the Town of La Plata, Maryland. At the La Plata Wastewater Reclamation Facility, high influxes...
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Get the Scoop on Low-Temperature Thermal Hydrolysis
Sometimes clean-water plants don’t care to be the first in their area to install a new technology. That’s not the case in...
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Amarillo Clean-Water Plants Emphasize Hands-On Learning
No one can say that high-tech instruments are responsible for the award-winning performance of the two clean-water plants in Amarillo, Texas.The 50 team...
