Kaeser expands U.S. headquartersKaeser Compressors broke ground on a new 30,000-square-foot facility expansion at its headquarters, based in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The virtual ceremony...
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News Briefs: Sizable Amount of Equipment Missing After WWTP Burglary in Missouri
Entry 243198Police are investigating a burglary at a wastewater treatment facility in Iron Mountain Lake, Missouri.
The city’s mayor, Shane French, tells the...
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Utility Reaches Thousands of Students Via Virtual Water/Wastewater Education Hub
COVID-19 hasn’t stopped the flow of wastewater into treatment plants, and it shouldn’t stop the stream of water education either.
The Prince William...
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Engineering Challenge, Art Activities and a Science Fair Highlight This Utility's Outreach
There’s nothing like a little competition to help people discover the careers available in the water sector.
With that in mind, the Prince...
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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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Award-Winning Operator Thankful for Updated Wastewater Treatment Plant
Nancy Pugh of the Louisa County (Virginia) Water Authority was recently named Wastewater Operator Specialist of the Year by the Virginia Rural...
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Problem: An Overloaded Treatment Plant. Solution: A New Facility With Water Reuse
It was a case of turning a problem into an opportunity.
The Zion Crossroads Wastewater Treatment Plant was organically and hydraulically overloaded. At...
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Operators in a Virginia Water Plant Thrive Using Standard Operating Procedures They Wrote Themselves
If the operators at the Percy D. Miller Water Treatment Plant are experts at operating their systems, it’s because they wrote the...
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What's One Way to Prepare for High Flows? Conduct a Simulation.
A series of high-flow simulations conducted last winter by the Prince William County (Virginia) Service Authority will help the utility identify near-...
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Mass Shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center Kills 12
Eleven public works employees and a contractor are dead after a mass shooting conducted by a 40-year-old public utilities engineer who worked...
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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...
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Education on the Wing: A Virginia Treatment Plant Provides a Haven for Birds
As a centerpiece for a clean-water treatment plant’s community outreach, it’s hard to beat the 24-acre bird-watcher’s paradise created by five lagoons...
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Here's How Three Trailblazing Women Rose Through the Ranks in the Wastewater Profession
Barbara Jackson, Vernia Hawthorne and
Jewel Minor entered the wastewater profession from different areas, but they had one thing in common: determination...
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How a Utility Converted a Fence Into a Teaching Tool
Making a formerly invisible wastewater treatment operation highly visible is an unspoken theme of construction projects at Alexandria Renew Enterprises (AlexRenew). ...
