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Jun 6 2018
Managing a wastewater treatment facility is a lot of responsibility. If pumps malfunction or power fails, wastewater can overflow. And if a pump…
May 31 2018
The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority of Albuquerque, N.M. operates a 76-million-gal-per-day (rated capacity) wastewater…
May 23 2018
The name Alaska is derived from the Aleut word Alyeska, meaning “great land,” and it certainly lives up to its moniker. Alaska is the largest but…
May 18 2018
Perry, Okla., is located approximately 60 miles north of Oklahoma City and serves as the county seat for Noble County. According to the U.S. Census…
May 14 2018
Located in Pierce County, Wash., the city of Gig Harbor is a local mecca for tourism boasting an expansive history in the boat-building and…
May 11 2018
Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., Loudoun Water provides drinking water and wastewater services to more than 80,000 households in…
May 10 2018
When Park City Water in Utah needed a new system for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and human-machine interface (HMI), it picked…
May 8 2018
When everything is working smoothly with a water system, whether that system is delivering potable water or removing wastewater or storm water, few…
May 3 2018
The mayor and council of Kearny, N.J., created the Kearny Municipal Utilities Authority (KMUA) in May 1988. KMUA is responsible for the collection of…
May 2 2018
Once simply a small town not far from Cleveland, the city of Avon now is one of the fastest growing communities in Northeast Ohio. The city is…
Apr 30 2018
There is iron in your well water, you are sitting on a fault line, and your soil is silty. This was the situation facing the Anna-Jonesboro Water…
Apr 30 2018
Cyanide has been used in the process of mining gold since 1887. When a dam burst at a gold mine in northwestern Romania in 2000, contaminated…
Apr 30 2018
The Fredericksburg (Pa.) Sewer & Water Authority (FSWA) owns and operates two wastewater treatment plants, five wastewater pumping stations,…
Mar 29 2018
Albion is located in south-central Michigan. Tenney Peabody, Albion’s first permanent settler, arrived in 1833. In 1835, other early settlers…
Mar 8 2018
Eight 10-by-40-ft Easi-Span all-precast concrete roof panels were erected in one day.
Precast concrete buildings have proven to be functional and…
Feb 25 2018
Salisbury-Rowan Utilities in Salisbury, N.C., prides itself on providing excellent customer service. While its commercial and industrial customers…
Feb 25 2018
Sour gas and sour water are terms used to describe gas and water containing significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide. Sour water and sour gas…
Feb 23 2018
Faced with rising operating costs due to increasing energy and chemical prices as well as stricter effluent permit limits, many operators and…
Feb 23 2018
Replacing a full supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is a big undertaking, and for Western Municipal Water District, Ignition by…
Feb 22 2018
The city of Moline, Ill., is located in the heart of the Midwest, tucked between the banks of the Mississippi and Rock rivers. Moline is one of four…
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Jun 22 2018
The U.S. EPA has awarded the city of Omaha, Neb., with a $69.7 million loan in order to aid in financing the city’s Saddle Creek Retention Treatment…
Jun 22 2018
The OSEC L hypochlorite generation system—an inherently safe alternative to chlorine, commercial bleach and chlorine tablets—produces a dilute and…
Jun 22 2018
Self-cleaning filters save time and money that is spent every day in the labor of cleaning and replacing irrigation heads, drippers, sprinklers,…
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