Plant Profile

The Plant Profile is monthly article about a water treatment plant, wastewater treatment plant, water reclamation facility, water resource recovery facility or desalination plant. Each article features the history of the plant, its treatment process, recent upgrades and the future of the facility. Want to see your facility featured here? Submit your plant for consideration!
May 25 2022
Location: Tampa Bay, Florida
Size: 25 mgd
Equipment: Reverse osmosis, coagulation, flocculation, sand filters, diatomaceous earth filters, feed…
Apr 26 2022
Location: Orange County, California
Size: 447,000 population served; 120,000 drinking water connections
Equipment: screens, grit chambers,…
Mar 25 2022
Location: Palm Springs, California
Size: 10.9 million gallons per day
Equipment: Primary settling, trickling filters, secondary clarifiers…
Feb 25 2022
Location: Camarillo, California
Size: Treats 4,500 acre feet per year; yields 3,800 acre feet per year
Equipment: greensand filters, reverse osmosis…
Jan 25 2022
Location: Batesville, Arkansas
Size: 4.2 average mgd; 9 mgd rated capacity
Equipment: Lagoon treatment, moving bed biofilm reactors, dissolved air…
Nov 17 2021
Located on the shore of Lake Michigan in Racine County, Wisconsin, the Racine Wastewater Treatment Plant provides wastewater treatment for eight…
Nov 2 2021
Like many municipalities in the U.S., Perryville, Missouri, faces challenges due to aging wastewater infrastructure. It is a problem brought to light…
Oct 1 2021
Mundelein Wastewater Treatment Plant is located in the village of Mundelein, Lake County, Illinois, which is situated in the northern suburbs of…
Aug 19 2021
The Great Lakes Water Authority needs little introduction for industry professionals. It services 40% of Michigan’s drinking water, which can be…
Jul 21 2021
Location: Emek Hayarden, Israel
Size: 280 m3/h
Equipment: Primary clarifiers, sand filter, lamella clarifier, micronic filter, ultrafilter,…
May 14 2021
Surrounded by expansive, rugged peaks and waterfalls, the town of Telluride, Colorado, is home to a population of about 2,473 people. The town is in…
Apr 13 2021
Location: Bristol Township, Pennsylvania
Size: 11 mgd rated capacity; 13 mgd peak waiver
Equipment: rapid mixing, coagulation, floculation,…
Mar 11 2021
The Smithfield Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF) processes an average of 2 million gallons of water per day (mgd), serving approximately 20,000…
Mar 2 2021
Location: Conroe, Texas
Size: 6 million gallons per day
Equipment: Lift station, digester tanks, aeration basin, clarifier, tertiary filtration…
Nov 11 2020
The city of Cle Elum, Washington, completed the construction of a new 3.6 million gallon per day (mgd) sequencing batch reactor (SBR) wastewater…
Oct 21 2020
Location: Huntertown, Indiana
Size: 1.5 mgd
Equipment: Simultaneous nitrification and denitrification, suspended growth activated sludge process,…
Jun 11 2020
Name: Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant
Location: Carlsbad, California
Size: 50 mgd
Population served: 400,000
Equipment: Energy…
Apr 21 2020
Located in The Dalles, Oregon, Dalles Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) discharges to the Columbia River, the nation’s second largest river.
The…
Mar 13 2020
At the A.B. Jewell Water Treatment Plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, raw water from Lake Oologah flows into the system for processing. John Curry is…
Feb 25 2020
Located in Suffolk, Virginia, Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s (HRSD) Nansemond Treatment Plant is devoted to using fats, oils & grease (FOG…
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