All Case Studies
Aug 23 2019
The Problem
The concrete floor and sidewalls of the clarifier in the potable water treatment facility were severely deteriorated. There were areas of…
Aug 14 2019
Overview
The city of Camas Wastewater Treatment Plant was faced with replacing their existing cloth media disk filters. The existing filters used a…
Aug 9 2019
Overview
Located in central Florida, the city of Auburndale is a thriving and steadily growing community that boasts great spaces to live, work and…
Jul 29 2019
The Problem
A new bottle recycling center in North Carolina needed to process 75 million lb of compressed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.…
Jul 15 2019
Introduction
Although St. Francis, Minn., located in Anoka and Isanti counties, has a population of only 7,218, it has big ideas when it comes to…
Jul 11 2019
The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management (DWM), established in 1942, services over 5,000 miles of water and wastewater pipes in the…
Jun 27 2019
The city of Rushville, Ind., had to remedy a consent order filed in 2007 for its untreated combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges that were…
Jun 24 2019
Situated about 45 miles southwest of Tampa, Manatee county’s lush environment needs water to thrive, and prudent management of that water is…
Jun 24 2019
The city of Plymouth processes 150,000 gal of raw sewage a day. Before 2009, the plant had no headworks installed at all. The raw sewage was being…
Jun 19 2019
Dealing with tough debris and clogged pumps and pipes are significant and costly issues for many municipal public works departments. These problems…
Jun 16 2019
Enactment of the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and the Stage 2 Disinfectant and Disinfection Byproduct Rule (D/DBPR) will require…
Jun 10 2019
Overview
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued a nutrient management strategy for freshwater non-tidal streams focusing on…
Jun 6 2019
The city of Grand Rapids, Mich., was named “America’s Greenest City” and has received worldwide recognition for its efforts. One of its newest…
May 15 2019
The Challenge
Would it be hard to get good grades in school if you did not have the tools to succeed academically, such as textbooks, paper and…
May 14 2019
Servicing more than 3,000 residents in the Greenfield Village and Copper Creek subdivisions in northwest Houston, Texas, Harris County Utility…
May 10 2019
Early in 2018, the council members for the city of Waukee, Iowa, approved Phase IV of a capital improvement project allowing for the expansion and…
May 8 2019
An uptick in the home-building market signifies changes on many different levels that seem to ripple around a community. The first and most obvious…
May 1 2019
Introduction
Steam poses a unique challenge for colleges and universities. Many schools want to accurately track, and then internally bill, for steam…
May 1 2019
Introduction
Hermitage Municipal Authority is strategically located between Pittsburgh, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio in northwestern Pennsylvania,…
Apr 26 2019
Introduction
Cyanide (CN) is commonly utilized in multiple industrial processes in the global mining, metals, chemical, electronics, steel,…
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The Water & Wastes Digest staff invites industry professionals to nominate the water and wastewater projects they deem most remarkable and innovative for recognition in the Annual Reference Guide issue. All projects must have been in the design or construction phase over the last 18 months.
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