The value of UV light for disinfection is well known. It’s highly effective against a broad range of pathogens, and it eliminates...
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A Scientist Proclaims There Is Much More to UV Than Meets the Eye
Entries Tagged Sustainability
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Cambi Reactor Breaks Down and Sterilizes Biolids at This Virginia Utility
When the Hampton Roads Sanitation District ran short of storage space for biosolids, it had a choice: Add capacity for Class B...
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Rialto Microgrid Project to Offer Resilient, Sustainable Power to City's WWTP
The City of Rialto, California, in partnership with Rialto Water Services and Veolia North America, have announced a joint commitment to the...
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A Washington Community and Utility Follow a Well-Designed Pathway to Sustainability
The Edmonds Wastewater Treatment Plant has taken big steps toward sustainability.
Those steps were outlined several years ago in a document called the...
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Columbus Water Work Uses Technology and Pedestrian Methods to Manage its Watershed
Columbus Water Works uses electronic monitoring and other technology to manage its watershed and its water and wastewater treatment, but it also...
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Blower Upgrades Enhance Energy Efficiency. Here's a Way to Quantify the Savings.
Energy is the second largest expense in most water resource recovery facilities. In an activated sludge plant, for example, more than half...
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This Minnesota City Casts a Wide Net in Capturing Efficiencies and Sustainable Practices
At the St. Cloud Wastewater Treatment Facility, success led to more success with energy and sustainability projects.
Things moved so quickly that the...
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Some Clean-Water Plants Have Trouble Finding Land to Apply Their Biosolids. That’s Not the Case for This Colorado City.
Some clean-water plants have trouble finding land to apply their biosolids. That’s not the case at Fort Collins, Colorado.The city owns the...
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A Southwestern City Engages Its Residents in a Multimedia Artistic Presentation of the Area’s Cultural and Water-Supply Heritage
Not far from Mesa’s Northwest Water Reclamation Plant in Arizona is the 2,100-acre Riverview Park. More than 200 years ago, a series...
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Paso Robles Bet Big on Sustainability and Won Significant Rewards
Paso Robles, California, made a plan in 2013 to go to tertiary wastewater and then recycling, but the city didn’t intend to...
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Industry News - August 2020
Grundfos’ Swetye added to board of Hydraulic InstituteGrundfos announced the appointment of Jim Swetye, technical training manager, to serve on the board...
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Technology Innovations Deliver Greater Output and More Sustainable Operation From Anaerobic Digesters
The U.S. EPA reports that organic food waste and yard trimmings accounted for 28% of the total mixed solid waste in the...
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Biogas Does More Than Power Cogeneration Systems. Now It Powers Vehicles.
When it came time to replace the biogas-fueled combined heat and power system at the Theresa Street Water Resource Recovery Facility in...
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Aeration Is a Big Expense. See How One Clean-Water Plant Drove the Cost Down at Minimal Cost.
When Jacobs took over operations of the wastewater treatment plant in Trinidad, Colorado, the team quickly found that the aeration system was...
