How to Handle Membrane Reject Water   Membrane Technology November 2005   Van Kile and Susie Kippenberger

Sand Plays Prominent Role at Canadian Ski Lodge   Water & Wastes Digest March 2005   By Dennis Hallahan, P.E.
These traditional technologies, often upgraded with new design and technology, provide quality treatment and disposal without the capital cost of sewering and centralized treatment plants.

Recent Advancements in Wastewater Sludge Composting   Water Engineering & Management October 2002   Izrail S. Turovskiy, D. Sc. and Jeffrey D. Westbrook, P.E.
Many utility providers face growing problems with the disposal of the wastewater sludges (residuals) that are created as part of the wastewater treatment process. Other providers are looking to additional methods for converting the residuals into fertilizer/soil conditioner with a higher economic and social value. The new technology presented in this paper provides a composting method to address the disposal and/or use of wastewater residuals. By maintaining the recommendations presented in this paper, a Class A biosolid can be produced. This Class A biosolid provides the utility operator the maximum flexibility for its disposal or use as a fertilizer, soil conditioner, etc.
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Municipalities and Developers Eye Better Land Use Through Drip Distribution   Water Engineering & Management May 2002   David Linahan, P.E.
While the face of Pennsylvania’s rural communities continues to change from bucolic farms to mushrooming suburbs, new residents are asking their municipal leaders to preserve as much of that original pastoral setting as possible. While that can prove to be a constant battle between preserving green space and building new roads, schools and shopping centers, one area that holds promise for resolving those competing demands is in the area of municipal sewage treatment.
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A New Process for the Drying and Gasification of Sewage Sludge   Water Engineering & Management May 2001   Brendan McAuley, Julie Kunkel and Stanley E. Manahan
Gasification can completely sterilize sewage sludge while circumventing many of the problems commonly encountered with incineration.

Water Quality Impacts of Long-Term Effluent Disposal Strategies in Southeast Florida   Water Engineering & Management May 2000   Ghislaine B. Carr, P.E., Patrick A. Davis, P.E., Robert E. Fergen, P.E. and Frederick Bloetscher, P.E.
The Southeast Florida Ocean Outfall Experiment II project was designed to satisfy bio-monitoring concerns and provide site specific information to allow the U.S. EPA Regional Administrator to evaluate if four open ocean outfalls located off the Southeast Florida coast were contributing to "unreasonable degradation" of the local marine environment.

Disposal Method Converts Animal Waste into Fuel   Water Engineering & Management July 1998

Oxygen-enhanced Incineration Increases Throughput, Decreases Emissions   Water & Wastes Digest February 1997
In most wastewater treatment facilities, solids handling is the single most expensive operation. Innovative oxygen injection technology, combined with vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) oxygen supply systems, allows a plant to achieve a dramatic increase in personnel and equipment productivity with a minimal capital expense Ñ while reducing emissions.

How to Ensure Passage of Wastewater Utility Investments   Water Engineering & Management August 1996   Margaret Norton-Arnold
As a basis for King County's recent planning effort, the agency chose to focus on products over technology.

Monitoring Reclaimed Wastewater Usage on Public Parkland Vegetation to Reduce Risks   Water Engineering & Management November 1995   G. Fred Lee and Anne Jones-Lee
A minimum monitoring program should be conducted to reduce the threat to public health and the environment when using reclaimed wastewater.

New Jersey Wastewater Authority Buys Farmland for Biosolids Disposal   Water Engineering & Management July 1995   Dennis W. Palmer and Clark G. Shimp
By buying farmland fpr dosposal of its biosolids waste, an enlarged New Jersey wastewater plant is on the way toward achieving a conservation goal.

Wastewater Disposal Goes Underground   Water Engineering & Management February 1995   Craig W. Lichty
A susbsurface percolation system has been adapted to handle the wastewater from a California town.

Greening of the Desert   Water Engineering & Management November 1994   Bill Schoenecker
Sludge from three wastewater plants helps farm land.