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Editorial Upgrading to a Bio-P Process Required Open Communication and a Proactive, Patient Approach at Wastewater Facility

How do you accommodate a two-year upgrade of a treatment plant, change over to new processes, keep staff abreast and involved, and...

August 13, 2020

Editorial Quality Staff Begets Quality Performance at Wisconsin Clean-Water Plant

The Racine (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant has occupied a 21-acre site on the west shore of Lake Michigan since 1937. Plant leaders...

June 09, 2020

Editorial Ed Hayner Started Out Just Trying to Make a Living. He Ended Up With a Clean-Water Career and a Life of Service.

Ed Hayner is committed to service.He sees his role as plant manager at the Aquia Wastewater Treatment Plant in Virginia as providing...

June 09, 2020

Editorial To This Mississippi Water Operator, the Career Is an Exercise in Constant Learning

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more humble water treatment professional than Terence Byrd. As operations supervisor at the J.H. Fewell Water Treatment...

May 13, 2020

Editorial Christen Wood Made a Change — and Discovered the Career of a Lifetime

Christen Wood was an accident waiting to happen — in a good way. A chance encounter with the local newspaper led Wood to...

February 13, 2020

Editorial Effective Planning and Consistent Maintenance Helped This Plant Win the 'Stanley Cup of Wastewater'

When the Bloomington-Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant won a 2018 Plant of the Year award from the Illinois Association of Water Pollution...

October 16, 2019

Editorial Steve Hoambrecker: A Patient and Persistent Problem-Solver for the Communities He Serves

EDITOR’S NOTE: The subject of this article was interviewed in March 2019. After publication of the article in August, Treatment Plant Operator...

August 08, 2019

Editorial Industrial Flows Are a Daily Challenge That the Norfolk Plant Team Meets Consistently

The Nebraska city of Norfolk is home to 24,000 people, but the Water Pollution Control Plant treats a BOD loading typical of...

July 16, 2019

Editorial A Career in Operations Leads to a Business Opportunity for a Colorado Professional

A major turning point in Wayne Ramey’s career came at his department Christmas party in 1988. His boss, the Public Works director,...

July 16, 2019

Editorial The Village of Slinger's Process Optimization Initiative Has Spanned Three Years in Search of Phosphorus Reduction

The Slinger (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant will face a monthly average phosphorus limit of 0.075 mg/L in 2023. Since the village (population 5,500)...

June 17, 2019

Editorial A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems

Property owners in the coastal California city of Malibu preferred a local wastewater treatment solution to a regional approach. The choice is...

June 17, 2019

Editorial Pride Bursts Forth as a Virginia Clean-Water Facility Wins a Plant of the Year Award

From wastewater plant management to the operational staff, Public Works department, and community, pride was busting out all over Waynesboro after the...

December 17, 2018

Editorial Paul Ray and His Team Keep an Older Plant Running Like New by Paying Close Attention to Detail

The North Cary (North Carolina) Water Reclamation Facility has been in service since 1974, but to the casual observer, it doesn’t look...

November 20, 2018

Editorial Some Plant Operators Are Specialists. Team Members at Crystal Lake Do It All.

There’s cross-training. And on-the-job training. And hands-on training. And then there’s around-the-horn training. That’s what they practice at the Crystal Lake (Illinois) Wastewater...

November 20, 2018

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