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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Paso Robles Bet Big on Sustainability and Won Significant Rewards
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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...
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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...
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End-to-End Recycling Initiative Is the Pride of Reclamation Facility in Semiarid New Mexico
The Ogallala Aquifer is an essential source of water for America’s breadbasket in the west-central high plains. It is being drawn down...
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Product Focus - June 2020
BiofiltrationAdEdge Water Technologies biottta
The biottta biological filtration system from AdEdge Water Technologies leverages nature to offer a sustainable solution for wellhead treatment of...
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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...
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Welder. Operator. Designer. Consultant. Tim Wilkey Took a Winding Career Path Before Returning Home.
Tim Wilkey started his work life as a welder. Now toward the end of it, he’s superintendent of the Wastewater Division in...
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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...
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A California District Partners With Other Utilities to Meet All of Its Customers’ Irrigation Needs
In a part of the country where freshwater supplies are often scarce, the Olivenhain (California) Municipal Water District is doing its part.
The...
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California Professional Climbs From Warehouse Position to Senior Operator
You won’t find many women senior wastewater operators today. You’ll find even fewer who operate a four-story, 200 wet-ton-per-day multiple-
hearth furnace.
Yet,...
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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...
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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...
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An Innovative Training Method Helps an Environmental Engineer Appreciate the Role of Operators
As Jordan Damerel cranked the hand wheel of the heavy gate on the bar screen so his operations teammates could maintain it,...
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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,...
