The Nebraska city of Norfolk is home to 24,000 people, but the Water Pollution Control Plant treats a BOD loading typical of...
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Industrial Flows Are a Daily Challenge That the Norfolk Plant Team Meets Consistently
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Product Focus - August 2019
Biosolids Handling/Hauling/
Disposal/Application
Boerger BLUEline Rotary Lobe Pump
The BLUEline Rotary Lobe Pump from Boerger is a self-priming, valveless, positive displacement pump used to...
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A City on the Pacific Coast Rejects a Regional Approach for a Community-Based Initiative to Phase Out Septic Systems
Property owners in the coastal California city of Malibu preferred a local wastewater treatment solution to a regional approach. The choice is...
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Huge Upgrades Will Help Humboldt Accommodate Chicken Plant Wastewater
Humboldt (Tennessee) Utilities’ wastewater treatment plant is undergoing a $25.5 million upgrade that will move it from a trickling filter contact solids...
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No Odors, No Trash, No Violations for This Utah Water Reclamation Facility
If you had to pick one word to describe the South Valley Water Reclamation Facility, that word would be “excellence.”
This 50 mgd...
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The Improvements Just Keep Coming at the Glasgow Wastewater Treatment Plant
The improvements just keep coming at the Glasgow (Kentucky) Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Built in 1962 as a trickling filter plant with upflow sand...
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A Dedicated Team, Hard Work and a Supportive Board Spell Success in Springfield, Illinois
In building a new treatment plant, the Sangamon County (Illinois) Water Reclamation District wanted it to be a good neighbor.
The Spring Creek...
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It All Comes Together: Innovation and Planning Make New Plant Work Right From Day One
When Orren West asked his friends at the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference what they thought about a job offer...
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What Makes This Florida Clean-Water Plant Successful? You Can Sum It Up in One Word.
Mark Darmanin will tell you there’s a simple reason for the success of the North Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant in Broward County,...
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There's Never a Surplus of Biosolids Product in Athens, Tennessee. Demand Exceeds Supply
The Athens Utilities Board is in a position where any product marketer would like to be: demand that exceeds supply.
Since 2006, the...
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Wheel and Spokes
Think of the Harvest-Monrovia (Alabama) Water and Sewer Authority infrastructure as a big wheel.
The Burwell Road and Jeff Road wastewater treatment plants...
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Team Members in Butte-Silver Bow Were Active in Plant Design and Startup and Now Spearhead Quality Operations
If you’re building a brand-new surface water treatment plant, facing new requirements for Cryptosporidium and disinfection byproducts, and importing technology that’s never...
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Water Quality Is a Central Focus for Michigan’s Genesee County Communities
A dozen communities in Genesee County, Michigan, recently began receiving potable water from a new multimillion-dollar water treatment plant in neighboring Lapeer...
Covers/Domes/Infrastructure - WesTech Engineering DuoSphere Double Membrane Gas Holder
The DuoSphere Double Membrane Gas Holder from WesTech Engineering can maximize gas storage capability while providing odor containment. The dual nature of...
