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News Briefs: Cheese-Clogged Pipe Causes Dairy Washwater Discharge in New York

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, officials in Martinsburg, West Virginia, report that a body was discovered in the waste tank of a water treatment plant
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Testing the Waters: Researchers Assess the Performance of Small Community Wastewater Lagoons

News Briefs: New Hampshire Culminates 7-Year Effort With PFAS Treatment Facility

News Briefs: New Hampshire Culminates 7-Year Effort With PFAS Treatment Facility

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, the manager of a wastewater treatment plant in West Virginia pleads guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and faces the possibility of two years in prison
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Staffing Shortages, Aging Equipment and Other Challenges Can't Keep This Plant From Excelling

A Kentucky clean-water plant team maintains award-winning Performance with aging equipment while awaiting a brand-new facility.
News Briefs: Delaware WWTP Experiences Weeks of Malfunctions, Discharges

News Briefs: Delaware WWTP Experiences Weeks of Malfunctions, Discharges

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, a chemical mishap at a West Virginia wastewater treatment plant causes an evacuation order for nearby residents
News Briefs: Turbine Explosion Injures Three, Shatters Residential Windows

News Briefs: Turbine Explosion Injures Three, Shatters Residential Windows

In this week's water and wastewater news, two people are hospitalized and a third refuses treatment after a turbine explodes at the Carrollton Water Treatment Plant in New Orleans
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Operators Collaborate With a Professional Designer on a Treatment Plant Welcome Sign

Weirton plant team helps make a positive statement
News Briefs: Operator Faces Decades in Jail for Illegal Discharges, False Reports

News Briefs: Operator Faces Decades in Jail for Illegal Discharges, False Reports

Also in this week's water and wastewater news, a worker is killed in a crane collapse near Fredonia, Kansas
The Craigsville Water Plant Team Pulls Together to Tackle Challenges and Steadily Improve the Process

The Craigsville Water Plant Team Pulls Together to Tackle Challenges and Steadily Improve the Process

Dealing with a tint from an unknown source is just one example of how the Craigsville team experiments and adapts its way to quality water.
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Jeff Pippel Relies on Plain-Spoken Management and a Mentoring Focus to Build an Award-Winning Career

Jeff Pippel uses plain-spoken management skills and a sharp mentoring focus to build an award-winning career at West Virginia water and wastewater plants.
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West Virginia Watershed Helps Mold Water Ambassadors

Seeing, hearing and touching are better teachers than books for kids in the Western Virginia Water Authority’s outreach and education programs.
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Convincing Consumers to Dedicate Dollars to Infrastructure

West Virginia American Water tries a new method for shedding more light on how customers’ water bills turn into infrastructure improvements
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News Briefs: School Accused of Lead Contamination Cover-Up

In this week's water and wastewater news, a Pennsylvania elementary school ignored lead contamination test results from the DEP; a Virginia court decides to continue allowing farmland application of biosolids; and a winery gets ready to use an on-site wastewater treatment system.
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December 2016 Project Roundup: Groundbreaking Ceremonies, Construction and More

See what’s going on around the country in this listing of new water and wastewater projects.