Adding a Slice of Treatment   Water & Wastes Digest July 2008   By Kirk Oleson, Kyle Booth & Mark Fosshage
A California cheese production company reduces loads to its city wastewater plant
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A Heavy Metal Solution   Water & Wastes Digest July 2008   By Brad Marchant
Homegrown wastewater treatment technology puts China’s leading copper mine ahead of the game
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Opting for Ozone   Water & Wastes Digest May 2008   By Clifford Seth Lebowitz
A Kansas city addresses taste and odor problems with a primary disinfection ozone system
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Finding the Right Elbow   Water & Wastes Digest March 2008   By David Hunter
Elbow failure created a hazardous slip-and-fall situation and put sensitive controls at risk
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Recovering Revenue   Water & Wastes Digest March 2008   By Shon Anderson
Automated water meters improve reading accuracy and recover town’s lost revenue
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Saving Money Under the Sun   Water & Wastes Digest January 2008   By Bob Nobile
Three applications demonstrate how solar-powered circulators produce cost savings, odor control and energy efficiency
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Expanding Capacity Without Expanding Size   Water & Wastes Digest October 2007   By Clare Pierson
MBR technology solves a plant’s age-old problem of needing more capacity but not having the room for it

Keep the Pumps Pumping   Water & Wastes Digest October 2007   By Ralph Royall
A wireless, Web-based alarm system expands pump capabilities and reduces operating costs in Midlothian, Texas

Going Multi-Barrier   Water & Wastes Digest October 2007   By Daniel L. Willers, P.E.
Combining two-stage clarification, media filtration and UV disinfection to improve treatment plant performance

The Basics of Line Stopping   Water & Wastes Digest October 2007   Brett Hanes
This method provided an alternative to shutting down a city’s water supply

Mercury: From the Dentist’s Chair to Public Treatment Works   Water & Wastes Digest September 2007   By Al Dubé
The use of amalgam separators satisfies the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 and has led to dramatic decreases in amounts of mercury in wastewater
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Delivering Water to a Drought-Stricken Community   Water & Wastes Digest September 2007   By Tony Radoszewski
The Richland-Chambers Reservoir and HDPE pipe supplied water to 25,000 residents when their city was three weeks away from severe drought
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Recycling & Reusing   Water & Wastes Digest September 2007   By Paul Schuler
The U.S. Army and Aqua Engineers team up to establish an award-winning wastewater reuse system on a Hawaiian Army base
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Utility Finds Answer in Tablet Chlorination   Water & Wastes Digest July 2007   By Scott Betcher
Colorado water and sanitation district chooses Accu-Tab tablet chlorination for a supplemental system to locate at well sites
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Cable Spool Provides Ideal Solution   Water & Wastes Digest February 2006   By Neal Linnihan
Minnesota’s Eagles Point Wastewater Treatment Plant eliminates safety hazard by incorporating cable spool

Phoenix Rising   Water & Wastes Digest January 2006   By John Quarendon
Arizona’s Lake Pleasant Water Treatment Plant, the largest DBO water project in North America expected to come online full-time in fall of 2006

Old Problem, New Solution   Water & Wastes Digest January 2006   By Steve Gibbs
Trenches water line construction helps Canadian company avoid costly disruptions

Water Utility Uses Cell Phones to Gather Field Data   Water & Wastes Digest January 2006   By James Anthony
City of Pearland, Texas, replaces handwritten documents with cell phone-based service, resulting in hours of saved time

PDAs Making Presence Known at Wastewater Plants   Water & Wastes Digest September 2005   By James Anthony

Becoming a Good Neighbor   Water & Wastes Digest September 2005   By Joe Woodward

Blown Out of the Wastewater   Water & Wastes Digest September 2005   By Jon Zabrocki, P.E. and Paul Larson, P.E.
By precisely controlling pressure in the air header and modulating airflow to each aeration zone to maintain set point DO levels, the energy usage is minimized through efficient operation.

Time Saved Testing Pays Off   Water & Wastes Digest May 2005   By Adam Potter
Many wastewater plants are switching from fecal coliforms to monitoring for E. coli and Enterococcus, because the EPA has identified these bacteria as the best indicators of fecal contamination in water.

Solving a Bacteria Mystery   Water & Wastes Digest November 2004
The city enlisted the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) and Virginia Tech to investigate the source of the enterococci contamination. Enterococci exist in fecal matter and pose risk to human health.

After All These Years   Water & Wastes Digest October 2004   By Ron Singleton
The Water District researched the many choices of filtration technologies available and eventually sent requests for proposals to six different manufacturers.

Mishawaka Utilities Serves Up High-Quality Water   Water & Wastes Digest September 2004   By Wayne King
Two-phase water system expansion in Indiana depends on technological advancements

Providing a One-Two Punch   Water & Wastes Digest September 2004   Lianna Mah
The Oakville plant treats 109 million liters per day of water from Lake Ontario.

The Simple Life   Water & Wastes Digest September 2004   By Ben Beaudoin
A PDA is able to download data from the datalogging equipment, therefore maintenance personnel can analyze the information and correct problems on site.

Magmeters Keep Wastewater Flowing   Water & Wastes Digest September 2004   By Liesel Oliveira
As part of the refurbishment, it was deemed necessary to replace the electromagnetic flowmeters that measure the flow of waste throughout the facility.

Maximum Capacity Expected   Water & Wastes Digest September 2004   By Christopher L. Komline
As a part of the expansion, a better method of sludge disposal was needed or the 20 acre lagoon would soon be full.

In the Wake of the Flood   Water & Wastes Digest August 2004   By Ralph J. Davila
Cuyahoga Falls, a city of 50,000 and one of the most severely impacted areas in northeast Ohio, was declared a federal disaster zone…

NYC-DEP Wastewater Treatment Plants Eliminate Excess Waste   Water & Wastes Digest April 2004   By Jeremy Smith
NYC’s plants treat about 1.4 billion gallons of wastewater from homes, businesses, schools and streets in the five boroughs every day, with water running through hundreds of pump stations and miles of sewers.

An Alarming Situation   Water & Wastes Digest March 2004
The PTMA realized that they needed to put the appropriate tools into place to assess the filter plant and prevent problems or possible violations before they occur, as well as help bring the facility up to date.

Farm Animals Need Clean Water, Too   Water Quality Products July 2003
In 2001, the Minnesota State Fair built the Miracle of Birth Center to reflect modern animal production practices in the existing Children's Barnyard at the fairgrounds. Dechlorinated water was one very important step that could be made to keep the animals comfortable and healthy at the fair.
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Customer Success Stories Make Companies Shine by Illuminating Business Strengths   Water Quality Products July 2003   Walt Denny
Many companies overlook the fact that they are sitting atop an untapped PR gold mine--their own customer base. Through the use of customer success stories many companies can highlight their business strengths and open the lines of communication with their sales reps and customers.
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Bacterial Control with Ozone   Water Quality Products July 2003   W. Craig Meyer and Partev B. Sarkissian, Pierce College
In the April 2001 issue of Water Quality Products,associates of TCET presented a new method using ozone to treat cooling tower water. Cooling Treatment Systems, Inc. (CTS) of Englewood, Colo., has adapted this method to produce a water treatment system it now is marketing for cooling towers. CTS submitted this new technology to TCET for testing. The results of these tests are presented here.
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Ozone Treatment for Residential Well Water   Water Quality Products June 2003   Myrle Melligan, Triple O Systems, Inc.
Your customers not only are expecting to have enough water supplied from their water source, but they also demand that it is of superior quality. Ozone's technology coupled with such treatment as filters or softeners can fulfill this expectation. Ozone does not need to be complicated in order to treat small water systems.
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Intermittent Seal Leak in LPG Pump   Pump Source April 2003   Sourav Kumar Chatterjee
The following case study describes a reliability problem with a Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) handling pump in a field and the way it was troubleshooted and fixed.

ETV Testing Verifies Membrane Filtration Plant Treats Surface Water, Meets D/DBP Rule   Water Quality Products December 2002   PCI Membrane Systems, Inc.
A study published as part of the EPA's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program verifies the performance of a Fyne Process membrane filtration plant tested on high organic-laden surface water in Barrow, Ark. The plant was able to remove significant levels of organics--precursors to disinfection byproducts such as trihalomethanes (THM) and haloacetic acids (HAA)--producing water that easily met the disinfection byproduct standards set by the EPA's stringent Stage 1 D/DBP Rule.
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Putting an End to Hard Water Problems   Water Quality Products September 2002   Rainsoft
Glade Valley Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Marriott Hotels, Starbucks and The White House may be vastly different with regard to the people who use and manage the facilities; yet when it was time to solve water quality problems, they all looked to the same resource: Kevin Britton, a RainSoft dealer at Quality Water of Maryland, located in Frederick, Md. (part of the Washington D.C. metro area).
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Ultraviolet Dechlorination Technology   Water Quality Products July 2002   Aquionics
At the Procter & Gamble manufacturing plant in Greensboro, N.C., an Aquionics ultraviolet (UV) dechlorination unit was installed before two banks of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. Trials that ran soon after the UV system’s installation showed a dramatic reduction in the RO membrane wash frequency—down from an average of eight cleanings per month to only two per month.
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The Great Activated Carbon Dilemma   Water Quality Products July 2002   Neal Megonnell, Calgon Carbon Corp
Drinking water treatment professionals have long held fast to the belief that granular activated carbon (GAC) based on bituminous coal provides the best performance for their demanding application. That’s why, when an article in 1999 cited evidence that a lignite-based GAC outperformed a bituminous-based carbon, industry experts were surprised and more than a bit skeptical.
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Sulphur Water Solution   Water Quality Products June 2002   Goulds Pumps
For more than 220 years people have journeyed to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to indulge themselves in baths of mineral water flowing from mountain springs. As inviting as the sulphur water may be, it is equally harsh on the pipes and pumps that transport it. Eight years ago Greenbrier decided to stop the corrosion once and for all by installing an all-stainless model manufactured by Goulds Pumps.
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Softeners Treat Truck Wash Water   Water Quality Products March 2002
When it comes to keeping their big rigs clean and sparkling, most truck drivers are as particular about a good wash as any car owner might be—maybe even more particular considering the dollars some have wrapped up in their 18-wheelers. Owners of large vehicle fleets such as buses and delivery trucks seem to appreciate the value a clean machine has in properly projecting their corporate image. During winter months in many northern states, just cleaning off road salt and sand is imperative to vehicle maintenance.

RO Maintenance   Water Quality Products January 2002   Nevin Rudie
Understanding and reacting to the performance of a reverse osmosis (RO) system is necessary for continued successful operation. It is this interaction that allows us to quickly and correctly identify and correct issues that may arise.
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Slowsand - Nanofiltration in Small Drinking Water Systems   Water Quality Products January 2002   C. Brent Cluff, Ph.D.
The patented combination of slowsand with nanofiltration offers benefits that merit considerable discussion. This combination successfully was piloted by the University of Arizona beginning in 1987.
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Filters Help Preserve Shipwreck   Water Quality Products December 2001
The Belle, a small 17th-Century French frigate, was discovered in July 1995 in Matagorda Bay, Texas, in 12 feet of water. The delicate nature of the waterlogged wood meant it could not be allowed to dry out. The water storing the ship must be free of particulate, algae and bacteria and may contain only chemicals safe for the staff to work in. Water also must be kept particulate-free in order for the conservation solution to work properly.
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Reclaim Greenhouse Water   Water Quality Products October 2001   Jeff Roseman, CWS, Aqua Ion Plus+ Technologies
Reclaiming water in the greenhouse industry will soon be something the government will be mandating the growers in the industry to do, as more wells are becoming contaminated from nitrates and phosphorus levels are becoming a concern for public health.
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Natural Bacteria Treat Pollution at Industrial Sites   Water Engineering & Management October 2001
An environmental consulting firm used bacteria found naturally in soil to treat toxic substances located in contaminated industrial sites.
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Insertable Electromagnetic Flowmeter Solves Difficult Piping Problem   Water & Wastes Digest April 2001
A difficult piping arrangement that included limited distance between the metering site and pipe fittings posed a dilemma for the engineering staff at a city of Frederick, Maryland, raw water pumping station.
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Pumping Up Big John   Water Quality Products April 2001   Metropolitan Industries
The John Hancock building, located on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, needed to revamp its entire pumping and reservoir system without shutting off water to the building’s residents.
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Pipe Installed Under LAX Runways, Terminals with No Service Disruptions   Water & Wastes Digest March 2001   WWD Staff
The challenge was to rehabilitate a 2.5 mile sewer running under one of the busiest airports in the world without interrupting flight operations or vehicular traffic. The site was Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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Carrier Pipe Installed In Minimal Time Using Casing Spacers   Water & Wastes Digest March 2001   WWD Staff
A recent addition to the Medina County Sanitary pipe grid included placing close to 300 feet of cased pipe under a Cleveland suburb. Project managers sought a means to do the job in minimal installation time.
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The Stormwater Challenge   Water Quality Products February 2001   Greg Gilles, Apyron Technologies, Inc.
Apyron Technologies, Inc., a material synthesis company in Atlanta, and Keystone Environmental, an environmental engineering consulting company in Vancouver, B.C., recently worked together to launch an arsenic remediation project for J.H. Baxter, one of the nation’s leading wood preservation companies.
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Municipal Plant Upgrades Wastewater Treatment With New Magnetic Flowmeters   Water & Wastes Digest February 2001
Wisconsin's Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District needed to replace its aging electromagnetic flowmeters at 32 points in its Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant. After carefully weighing its options, the district decided to purchase UniMag magmeters from Isco, Inc.
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Innovative Odor Control -- A Good Neighbor Program   Water & Wastes Digest February 2001
The Water and Wastewater Utility Department of the city of Austin, Texas, manages the operation of a regional sludge processing facility where they faced an odor problem. Working with a consultant, they purchased a fixed bed, iron oxide based odor control system from The SulfaTreat Company.
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Well Water Treatment: Ozone Helps Solve Water Problems at Bassi Ranch   Water Quality Products September 2000   Ted Rich
An analysis of the raw well water (Table 1) shows a pH of 7.9 and 30 color units with >20 mg/L hydrogen sulfide, 5.6 mg/L iron and 0.6 mg/L manganese. Odor was detected at 10 threshold odor number (TON), indicative of the high hydrogen sulfide levels. To meet these water problems head-on, the homeowners formed the Bassi Ranch Mutual Water Co. in 1992.

Winery: Equipment Stays Online With AQA Total   Water Quality Products September 2000   Bill Herrera
Recently, two AQA total 65 gpm Model 14000 DI-Polar water conditioners were installed at the Kendall Jackson winery in Soledad, Calif.

Green Technology:Tackling Industrial Effluent   Water Quality Products March 2000   D.J. Gordon
Osmonics, Inc. and Esmil Process Systems Ltd. developed a zero discharge effluent treatment and water recovery system for the niche timber market.

High Quality Water Comforts Guests   Water Quality Products March 2000
With a 90 percent occupancy rate week after week, Comfort Inn uses a lot of water, and the hardness of the water was costing them money.

Media Filters Reduce Biocide Costs at Dairy   Water Quality Products January 2000
A PEP SMF-FG-24 media filter from Process Efficiency Products, Inc., was installed on the remote sump to reduce biocide costs at the dairy.

Ozone Generator Improves Cobb Area County Water Quality   Water Quality Products November 1999
The Cobb Area County Water District of Middleton, Calif., achieved a major improvement in the district’s water quality by approximately 40 percent, from one of its major water sources—a well near one of its pumping stations.

California Plant Combines New Treatment Technologies   Water & Wastes Digest November 1999
Industry and irrigation place an extremely high demand on our dwindling water resources. Their demands, however, can be easily satisfied with reclaimed water and a principle source of this water is the effluent from local sewage treatment facilities.

High-capacity Dewatering System Reduces Digester Maintenance   Water & Wastes Digest September 1999
Installation of a high-capacity dewatering screen to the activated sludge secondary treatment units for this utility has reduced costly maintenance and lengthened by 50 percent the average time between shutdowns for cleaning the treatment process.

Fiberglass Grating Used in Kansas City Treatment Plant   Water & Wastes Digest August 1999
Over the past decade, the use of fiberglass structural products in the wastewater treatment industry has grown dramatically.

Gas Detectors Help Ensure Worker Safety   Water & Wastes Digest August 1999
In hazardous, confined space situations, the only way to protect employee safety is to use quality gas detection products that provide reliable early warning.

Problem Solver: Reverse Osmosis Removes Hexavalent Chromium from Groundwater   Water Quality Products August 1997
A rural chrome plating facility faced a critical waste removal problem. Over time, a significant quantity of toxic hexavalent chromium had leaked from their facility into the ground and contaminated nearby wells. A government regulatory agency threatened legal action if the facility was not able to reduce the hexavalent chromium concentration in the groundwater by 99.9 percent.

Problem Solver: Advanced Water Recycling with RO Fosters High-Tech Desert   Water Quality Products June 1997
This article describes one of the first facilities in the United States to use reverse osmosis (RO) to reclaim industrial process water, treating it to potable standards and then injecting it into the groundwater.