Entries Tagged Upgrade

It’s a common tale. A small community’s clean-water plant is aging. The operators know it’s time to modernize or upgrade. They know...

When the Athens (Alabama) Wastewater Treatment Plant came online in 2009, the staff faced a few training and startup challenges. Listen in...

Plant Manager Mike Wiseman takes you on a tour of the Asheboro (N.C.) Wastewater Treatment Facility. Plus, learn how the operations team...

Drivers on U.S.-126 outside of Lansing, Mich., were held up in traffic after a truck carrying processed biosolids tipped over, emptying its...

Heavy rains and excess water from homeowner sump pumps nearly caused disaster at a treatment plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., last week.“Our...

According to a new French study, cities and hospitals are releasing wastewater into the environment that contains antibiotic-resistant bacteria.The study suggests that...

After initially challenging the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s findings that elevated volumes of ammonia and pathogens were present in...

On Feb. 15, plant operators at the Sugar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Charlotte, N.C., detected a strange odor in the wastewater,...

More than a year after Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern seaboard, wastewater treatment plants are still searching for a silver bullet to...

When 10 deer recently got stuck in steep wastewater storage ponds at the Napa Resort Improvement District Wastewater Treatment Facility near Lake...

The wastewater treatment industry faces new challenges every day. Technologies are developed to meet compliance standards in the face of these new...

The non-compliance lawsuit filed against the Wayne County (Mich.) Downriver Wastewater Treatment Facility in the mid-1980s was not only a shock to...

F loods, hurricanes, power outages and high winds are just a few obstacles overcome by operators at the Octoraro Water Treatment Plant...

Operators at the Courtland Wastewater Reclamation Facility had a lot to learn when their brand new five-stage Bardenpho plant started up in...