Ramesh Goel, a National Science Foundation-funded scientist, believes bacteriophages could be the key to improving wastewater treatment processes. Goel’s research shows potential...
Entries Tagged Virginia
Online Exclusives
News Briefs: Oil Train Derailment Threatens Water, Triggers More Questions
Officials in Richmond, Va., took precautionary measures on Wednesday, April 30, to protect the city’s water supply after a train carrying crude...
Online Exclusives
News Briefs: Air Force Fuel Spill Headed Toward Municipal Wells
A decades-old fuel spill at the Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, N.M., is slowly creeping toward municipal water sources. Discovered in...
Editorial
Covering The Territory
The hilly terrain and rural character of Washington County in far southwest Virginia can be deceiving. Beneath the ground runs a 900-mile-long...
Editorial
Tackling Turbidity
The Clifton Forge Water Treatment Plant is one of very few surface water facilities with no population, industry or agriculture upstream from...
Editorial
Out and About
If you picture a water treatment lab chemist as someone spending all day indoors hunched over vials and test tubes, microscopes and...
Editorial
Ready to Grow
Operators at the Southampton Regional Water Reclamation Facility had a lot to learn when their brand new five-stage Bardenpho plant started up...
Blogs
Inventor looks at using worms to process biosolids
The NV Daily in Strasburg, Va., reports on a resident’s projects to stabilize biosolids by feeding it to redworms. Resident Jerry Scholder...











