Wastewater treatment plants should aim to produce quality effluent without using a treatment aid for process control, and the best way to...
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The Name Says it All: Readers Debate Job Titles
Since Editor Ted Rulseh first posed the question about industry name changes in the January issue of Treatment Plant Operator, response from...
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Canadian Company Extracts Heat From Raw Sewage
International Wastewater Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia, is putting its own twist on the recovery of heat from sewage and wastewater. The...
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Safeguard Your Treatment Plant Against Flooding
These days, the 100-year flood seems to be happening nearly every year. Cases in point: Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, Hurricane Katrina...
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Inspire 2014 Conference Covers Process Safety
ACM Facility Safety and the Institute of Hazard Prevention present the Inspire 2014 Conference May 6-8, 2014, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The...
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Top Tips for Laboratory Safety
What’s the most dangerous place in your wastewater treatment plant? Headworks. Biosolids area. Electrical panels.Think again. It could be your laboratory. While...
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Superbugs Study Findings Could Impact U.S. Treatment Plants
A Rice University study of “superbugs” found at two wastewater treatment plants in northern China should alert operators at U.S. wastewater facilities...
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Not Your Grandfather's Treatment Plant Operation
With an increasing number of wastewater treatment operators and other key staff members retiring or moving on from the industry, Tom Groves...
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Big Aspirations
The Town of Lincoln has been described as the “front door to Missouri’s great lakes,” Lake of the Ozarks and Truman Lake. It...
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Top Issues Facing Large Wastewater Treatment Systems
If money is the biggest challenge facing small wastewater treatment systems, big systems have the same issue — complicated by an ever-changing...
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Study Considers Wastewater Plants’ Role in Great Lakes Chemicals Concerns
Wastewater treatment plants need to assess the effectiveness of their treatment technologies to deal with an increasing number of “chemicals of emerging...
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Top Issues Facing Small Wastewater Treatment Systems
On its website, the U.S. EPA lists what it considers the biggest challenges facing small (less than 1 mgd) wastewater treatment systems:
Economic/financial...
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NSA To Cool Computer Center With Treated Wastewater
A new National Security Agency computer center in Fort Meade, Md., will be cooled by treated wastewater from Howard County, Md. Under...
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Job Title Change Hits a Nerve With TPO Readers
After a record number of responses poured in for the Let’s Be Clear column titled “What’s in a Name? Or a Title?”...
