WASTEWATER
By: Rick Lallish
It is generally accepted that the sludge blanket depth in secondary clarifiers should not exceed 2 feet (0.6 meters)....
Entries Tagged Sludge
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Exam Study Guide: Sludge Quality; and Manganese Greensand Filters
Entry 244616Welcome back to TPO magazine's Exam Study Guide Series, which offers a pair of water/wastewater study questions with in-depth explanations of the answers. Last time,...
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What is a Foambuster?
The patented Foambuster from Vaughan uses a glass-lined ductile iron nozzle combined with a stainless steel splashplate located below the nozzle to...
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Second Worker Dies from Hydrogen Sulfide Exposure
A second worker in Wichita Falls, Texas, has died from exposure to concentrated hydrogen sulfide at the River Road Wastewater Treatment Plant....
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News Briefs: Snowy Owl Recovers From Sludge Pond Dive
A wildlife rescue has a happy ending, thanks to two county wastewater system employees. The duo recently discovered a disabled snowy owl in...
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Squiggles & Cracks: Operator Creates Biosolids Art Photography
When Tommy Armstrong stares at the cracking mud of a dewatering bed, he sees more than drying biosolids. He sees crazy lines,...
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News Briefs: Diabetes Drug Discovered Near Lake Michigan Treatment Plants
Researchers with the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have found elevated levels of metformin, a diabetes treatment drug,...
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Ingenuity Winner: Larry Bastian's Creative Brain Improves Operations at DC Water
Editor’s Note: We will be highlighting the winners of WEF’s Operator Ingenuity Winners in an ongoing series on our website. The winners...
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WEFTEC 2014 Innovation: Struvite Remedy Yields Marketable Fertilizer
Editor's Note: Innovation was a big theme at WEFTEC 2014. We'll be featuring a few of the new and better technologies found...
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From biosolids injection to cake production: A small utility’s recipe for the future
What does a community do when its liquid biosolids handling equipment breaks down to the point of no repair? If you are...
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Names Do Matter
Back in the 1980s while working on a public participation project for a clean-water agency involving land application of what...













