Entries Tagged Water Intake

Big Cottonwood water plant marks 16 years of delivering high-quality water and earning the Directors Award from the Partnership for Safe Water.

After a 2014 water crisis in Toledo, which left 500,000 customers without water, the city knew it needed to respond better to Lake Erie algae blooms. Here's how monitoring, treatment and public relations efforts have kept the city's water safe.

For water utilities, zebra mussels can become more than just a nuisance. Find out how cities across the country are controlling this invasive species, and learn more about some of the monitoring programs in place.

Along the Mississippi River, two water treatment plants are experimenting with mussels to detect contaminants in raw water. Could these mollusks become our best early-warning system?

On Aug. 5, an EPA team working at a Colorado gold mine accidentally released 3 million gallons of wastewater into the nearby river. Now, that water is headed toward New Mexico.

In this week's water and wastewater news, water customers get an unpleasant surprise in their tap water, Lake Erie water intakes test positive for microcystin and Texas drought restrictions return.

In this week's water and wastewater news, drop cloths cause problems at a lift station, the NOAA releases a dire Lake Erie algae prediction and UCLA asks for $13 million in damages after a water main break.

In this week's water and wastewater news, worker safety triggers an East Lansing lawsuit, a Texas loan program receives positive response and subzero temps cause problems in Canada.

This cold-weather phenomenon requires a particular set of variables: a clear night, a slight offshore wind and plunging temperatures. Learn why it can mean disaster for water system intakes.