Videos Profile

In this online exclusive video, Ashley Roberts, award-winning laboratory manager for Hampton Roads (Virginia) Sanitation District, walks viewers through her lab facility and tells the story of her career as she's risen ranks in the utility. "I was a chemist for five years, so my primary responsibility was to be the problem solver," says Roberts. "If anything went wrong, I was the one that was fixing it, or I was delegating how to fix things. But now, as a laboratory manager, I definitely have to take a step back and allow my chemists and my laboratory specialists to do that while coaching them and mentoring them toward the right answer." Read more about Roberts in the December issue of Treatment Plant Operator.

In this online exclusive video, Rusty Tournade, water treatment plant supervisor for Eudora, Kansas, talks about some of the recent capital improvement projects undertaken at the facility. This year, they're working on installing a new lime feeder for softening, along with a number of new valves. “We have to come in and fill the towers up — we have to have the water plant shut off to install the valves,” says Tournade. “So the water plant has to be full so the town doesn’t run out of water.”

Of all the projects engineer Raed Armouti has worked on, the most memorable was a $91 million wastewater treatment facility for the Sangamon County (Illinois) Water Reclamation District.

Wastewater operator Nancy Pugh of the Louisa County (Virginia) Water Authority no longer worries about a hydraulically overloaded facility

Greg Moser, superintendent of the Slinger (Wisconsin) Wastewater Treatment Plant, discusses the challenge of removing phosphorus under new regulations

Take a look at footage of the Pirtle Spring Water Treatment Plant in Hardin County, Kentucky, as supervisor Chris Gohman talks about some of the plant’s recent accomplishments. In 2018, the facility won two awards: the Best of the Best Tap Water Taste Test at the Kentucky-Tennessee American Water Works Association Conference; and the Central Kentucky Water and Wastewater Operators Association Water Treatment Plant of the Year award. “We’re very proud of that and we can attribute all that to our staff here,” says Gohman. “All our operators work hard and we take pride in what we do.”

Jane Leatherland, supervisor for Humboldt (Tennessee) Utilities, walks viewers through treatment plant operations and big upgrade plans

Rodney Spires of the Hannibal (Missouri) Wastewater Treatment Plant gives viewers a tour of the facility's laboratory and oxygen building

In this online exclusive video, join Nathan Clark, senior superintendent of operations for the northern division of Kentucky American Water, and his staff of operators for a tour of the Kentucky River Station II Water Treatment Plant at Hardin’s Landing. In an area where providing a drought-resistant water supply is the main challenge, the Hardin’s Landing plant uses four intake pumps to pull water 400 feet from the Kentucky River before it moves on to four basins, tube settlers and five mixed-media filters. “The one spot that we didn’t have was for a UV system, so that’s what is in the works right now and being planned to put in in the next couple years,” says Clark.

Installing new equipment and optimizing its SCADA system allows this crew to save money on energy costs and save unnecessary wear and tear on critical components

Get a detailed look at Genesee County, Michigan's treatment process and nitrification towers

The process is able to achieve 99.9 percent removal of nitrogen, helping to remove ammonia in wastewater

Get a first-hand look at the lab equipment used by Ann Arbor (Michigan) Water Treatment Services

See the process used to turn a wastewater treatment plant's solid waste into its registered fertilizer, AthenaGro

Lead operator Eric Edwards shows viewers around a wastewater treatment plant in Madison County, Alabama

Mixing wood chips with waste, Lebanon, Tennessee, is creating electricity and a marketable soil additive

The wastewater plant has won Most Outstanding Wastewater Treatment Facility from the Mississippi Water Environment Association more than any other plant in the state

A representative from Hawkins helps get a Kansas water plant back online in an emergency, greatly improving water quality in the process

The water plant in Norton, Kansas, depends on a full-range of Hach instruments to monitor water quality