The city of Longmont Wastewater Treatment Plant generates 140,000 cubic feet per day of biogas. Putting more of it to beneficial use...
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Anaerobic Digesters in Longmont, Colorado, to Provide Fuel for City Waste Service Trucks
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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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Rapid-Settling Clarification from Veolia Helps a Canadian Community's River Run Clear
A new residuals management process at a water treatment plant in Alberta is designed to improve the environment for fish and for recreational...
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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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Small-Town Phoenixville Launches a Big Innovation in Beneficial Use of Biosolids
The Borough of Phoenixville is a small municipality in southeastern Pennsylvania that rises to the challenges of being first.
It was first in...
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At North Port, Nothing Is Wasted. The Clean-Water Plant Even Has a Garden Where Operators Grow Healthy Foods
Look up the word “efficient” and you’ll find it defined as “producing desired results without wasting materials, time or energy.”
That certainly describes...
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Solar Panels, Cogeneration, Hydroturbines, and Wind Generators Are All on the Net Zero Agenda in Santa Cruz
Amanda Bird is on a mission to achieve net zero energy at the Santa Cruz (California) Wastewater Treatment Facility.
To Bird, senior wastewater treatment operator and...
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Staffers Become Actors and Narrators for This Video on the Workings of a Treatment Plant
For over 40 years the South Platte Renew wastewater treatment plant sent clean effluent to the South Platte River.
When the COVID virus...
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Low-DO BNR: A Research Program Looks at How to Do It Cost-Effectively and at Full Scale
Removal of nutrients is a growing challenge for clean-water plants, especially where effluent phosphorus limits are strict.
Plants today are looking toward biological...
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Forty Years in Clean Water. No Plans to Retire
Many high school students find their first jobs at McDonald’s or Burger King. Not Wade Lagle.
“I didn’t really want to work at a...
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Here's a Place to Learn About the Benefits of Biogas as an Energy Source for Your Facility
In conversations about clean energy and greenhouse gases, we hear a lot about solar, wind and nuclear, and a lot less about a...
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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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A Xylem White Paper Charts a Path to Immediate and Significant Carbon Emission Reduction
In taking measures against climate change, many cities and water and wastewater utilities are far ahead of the federal government.
Almost routinely, we...
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Net Zero Energy? Here's a Plant That Took Things Even Further
When the state of Massachusetts prohibited the landfilling of organic material, the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District made plans to use food waste to boost...
