Chris Patterson is right where he’s meant to be: gas, water and wastewater manager for the city of Jacksonville, Alabama.
His job is...
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Chris Patterson Leads by Serving. It's His Ticket to a Successful Water and Wastewater Career
Entries Tagged YSI, a Xylem brand
Wilo-Flumen OPTI-TR
YSI, a Xylem brand, is expanding its IQ SensorNet solution with the release of two new analyzers for wastewater monitoring and control...
Editorial
Monitoring and Instrumentation
Software helps improve plant data management
Problem: An aging SCADA system and a decrease in staff left an Ohio wastewater treatment plant with...
Editorial
This Wisconsin Lab Tech Has the Formula for Excellence
When auditor Brandy Baker-Munich of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) first saw the difficulties the city of Eagle River had...
Editorial
Simple Solutions for Process Improvement
Sometimes it doesn’t take a major plant upgrade to drive down the nutrient content of effluent and improve overall plant performance.Bob Gabry,...
Editorial
Monitoring and Instrumentation
Mini-analyzers monitor sulfite and chlorine levelsProblem: The wastewater plants in Clarkson and Guelph, Ontario, use chlorine disinfection but have severe chlorine residual...
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Experience Pays Off for Operators at New Facility
When the Florida town of Davie built its new water reclamation facility with a membrane bioreactor, the operators had no experience with...
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Unplugged: The Path to Becoming an Energy Independent Facility
The Hayward Water Pollution Control Facility used to consume up to 60 percent of the city’s electricity. Today, it produces its own...
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WEFTEC Spotlight: YSI Introduces Hand-held DO Meter and Portable Sampler Series
YSI, a Xylem brand, introduced the Pro20i hand-held dissolved oxygen (DO) meter and the ProSample Series of fully automated, lightweight portable samplers...
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Digital Technology
Testing method helps determine activated carbon remaining serviceProblem: Operators at the drinking water plant in Corvallis, Oregon, were unable to determine the...
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The Money-Saving Capabilities of Ammonia-Based Aeration Control
About half of a typical clean-water plant’s energy goes to aeration. It follows that pumping more air than necessary into the activated...
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Monitoring and Instrumentation
Valve positioner provides boost to effluent qualityProblem: An Illinois wastewater treatment plant needed to improve the valve position on each of its...
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Florida Treatment Plant Transitions to Sophisticated Step-Feed Biological Nutrient Removal
The Eustis Wastewater Treatment Plant went online in 1959 with a 1.0 mgd trickling filter process. Fifty-seven years later, it’s a 2.4...
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WEFTEC 2015 Product Spotlight, Part 2
Editor's Note: Hundreds of exhibitors displayed water and wastewater equipment — from the tried-and-true to latest and greatest — at WEFTEC 2015, presented by the...
