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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Industrial Flows Are a Daily Challenge That the Norfolk Plant Team Meets Consistently
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Ken Rutt Pays It Forward by Mentoring Team Members the Way Others Mentored Him
When Ken Rutt first met Jeri, his wife-to-be, the road ahead led not only to a happy marriage, but also to a...
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A $58 Million Plant Upgrade Sets Kankakee Operators Up for Success
If there’s a great before and after story
in municipal wastewater treatment, it could be Kankakee, Illinois.
Before 2010, the Kankakee River Metropolitan...
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Finding a Productive Package for a Wastewater Plant Upgrade
The Moore County (Tennessee) Utility Department needed a new wastewater treatment plant. Its continuous-flow activated sludge package plant was showing its age;...
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Virginia Plant Goes Above and Beyond to Solve Problems
Operators at the Noman M. Cole Jr. Pollution Control Plant are deep thinkers. They ask: What could go wrong? And how will...
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How Treatment Plants Can Become Power Plants
Wastewater officials talk more and more about turning publicly owned treatment works into publicly owned power plants.
They should take a lesson from...
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Down-To-Earth Solutions
The Fairfield Glade Community Club development is certainly big enough for a wastewater treatment plant with a conventional stream discharge.The trouble is...
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Wisconsin’s Ho-Chunk Nation Expands Wastewater Treatment Plant
Native American tribes strive to make decisions with thought about their effects seven generations into the future.Wisconsin’s Ho-Chunk Nation couldn’t look that far...
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A Colorado Plant Produces Sparkling Effluent With A Process Combining Liquor With Fixed-Film Media
Deep in the Rocky Mountains, Randy Sack and his three operators quietly treat wastewater and septage and discharge sparkling effluent to the Arkansas...
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An Iowa Team Masters A New Plant's Biological Nutrient Removal Process
EDITOR’S NOTE: Since this article was written, Clinton’s water quality superintendent Dan Riney has retired from that community and has taken a...
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A Florida Batch Plant Exceeds Design Performance Through Study, Observation And Testing
Kanahou Alana admits he knew nothing about wastewater when he became the operator of the Layton Wastewater Treatment Plant on Florida’s Long Key...
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Right At Home
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jeremy Cramer, who was superintendent of the Stevens Point Wastewater Treatment Plant at the time this article was researched and...
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Attitude of Caring
Mike Bisi went to elementary school next to the Glastonbury (Conn.) Water Pollution Control Facility. He confesses he probably was one of...
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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...
