The odor emitted by wastewater treatment plants in cities is one of the social problems that technology has worked to solve for...
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Entries Tagged Wastewater Treatment Plant
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A Graphite-Metal Alloy Bushing Comes to the Rescue of a Problem Clarifier
A North Carolina clean-water plant was having difficulty with a rectangular primary clarifier.
The scraper flight boards and scum collector boards had gone out...
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This Pennsylvania Operator Has Learned the Value of a Fully Trained, Team-Oriented Staff
Michael Sedon has seen a great deal in 34 years with Cranberry Township in western Pennsylvania.
Perhaps most important of all, he has seen...
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Here's a Place to Learn About the Benefits of Biogas as an Energy Source for Your Facility
In conversations about clean energy and greenhouse gases, we hear a lot about solar, wind and nuclear, and a lot less about a...
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Revenue from Septage Keeps a Clean-Water Plant Financially Sound After a Major Discharger's Departure
The Richmond clean-water plant was humming along just fine until the Vermont town’s creamery shut down in 1999.
“With the creamery, our flows...
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Net Zero Energy? Here's a Plant That Took Things Even Further
When the state of Massachusetts prohibited the landfilling of organic material, the Greater Lawrence Sanitary District made plans to use food waste to boost...
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We Are Family
In 2020 when the North Woodstock Wastewater Treatment Plant won a U.S. EPA Regional Excellence Award, it was a career cap of sorts...
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Teamwork Does It
Perhaps no wastewater treatment facility blends old and new as well as the Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant operated by the Lehigh...
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Watch: Video Offers Tour of Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
As part of the My Wisconsin Backyard series, Milwaukee PBS recently posted a video touring the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.Lake Michigan, along...
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Case Studies - November 2021
Ozone and oxygen reduce odor at collection system and lift station
Problem
A Pacific Northwest regional wastewater authority received multiple odor complaints especially during summer....
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Does Your Facility Face problems with Filaments and Foam? This Plant Tested a Solution
The aeration basins at West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle experienced periodic foaming caused by nocardiaform filamentous bacteria.
Although the foaming problem did...
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Is Your Facility Ready for the Next Cyber Attacker? Look Here for Practical Protective Advice
Two fairly recent events should have erased all doubt about whether cyberattacks are a serious threat to critical infrastructure, including water and...
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This New Hampshire Operator Took a Challenging New Job Eyes Wide Open and Made it a Success
Jim Pouliot always liked a challenge. That’s a big reason he signed on four years ago as water and sewer superintendent in the...
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Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority Finds a Super Way to Teach Kids About Water
Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority plans to host third annual Trick or Treatment event in October at two of its wastewater treatment...
