Stephen Sanders started his career as an operator and troubleshooter. He found his true calling when he became a water and wastewater...
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This Trainer Learned His Trade at the University of Life
Entries Tagged Wastewater Treatment Plant
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Traveling Troubleshooter Keeps Tabs on Household Pump Systems
When Johnny Cash sang “I walk the line,” he wasn’t referring to monitoring a line of 240 rural septic tanks.
But that is...
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Love of Science Drives a Choice of Career
Derek Gormon never planned for a career in the clean-water industry. Still, he’s not surprised to find himself as the manager of...
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Multiple Activities Energize Outreach at ACUA
Atlantic County Utilities Authority finds multiple ways each year to deliver its message of environmental stewardship.“Our president, Richard Dovey, has a long...
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Incremental Improvements Are Fine, but This Clean-Water Plant Looks to Hit Home Runs
Growing cities have to pay big to sustain wastewater treatment capacity and meet permit limits. Austin Water does so with conviction.
For illustration,...
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This Operations Team Takes Care of its Plant - Even if That Means Living There in an Emergency
When a wastewater treatment staff literally lives at the plant for five straight days during an ice storm, you’d expect them to...
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The First Installation of the NuReSys Process Ends a Nagging Struvite Problem for an Arizona Plant
Struvite had become a serious problem for the Tres Rios Water Reclamation Facility in Arizona’s Pima County.
The buildup of struvite occurred downstream...
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Test Your Knowledge: How Well Do Clean-Water Plants Recover Valuable Resources?
We have come a long way since 1970. As I was entering college, an ad running frequently on TV touted a frozen...
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Food Waste Helps Power this Plant's Quest for Energy Self-Sufficiency
Greg Wright has found that the path to energy self-sufficiency has many obstacles for rural clean-water plants.
That hasn’t discouraged him from continuing...
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Case Studies: Pumps and Blowers
Direct in-line pump system chosen to solve frequent maintenance and confined space problemsProblem: A wastewater treatment plant in the village of Sherman, New York,...
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From Paper to Electronic: Aquatic Informatics Software Enhances Plant Operations in a New York Community
Monitoring the treatment of wastewater from influent to effluent was a persistent challenge for the team at the Penn Yan (New York)...
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First the Farthest East. Now the Farthest West. This Operator's Career Spans the Continent.
Not many clean-water operators can watch orca and humpback whales while doing plant rounds.That privilege belongs to Mark Descoteaux and his five-member...
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This Colorado Operator Is Qualified for Management. He Prefers to Stay With Operations for the Challenges It Brings.
It wasn’t enough for Robert “Rob” Magee to master one of the two treatment plants in Denver Water’s South System.Variety was part...
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They’re Not Making Any More Water. This Operator Is Intent on Seeing That What We Have Is Protected.
The Lord God is not making any more water. It’s all being recycled. So we need to keep his water clean, and...
