The Yakama Nation Legends Casino, located in Toppenish, Wash., is a wholly owned operation of the Yakama Nation tribe. It features approximately...
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Jul 13 2017
The San Jose Water Co. (SJWC) of northern California provides drinking water for over one million people in the greater San Jose region. As shown...
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Jun 28 2017
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires arsenic levels of 10 ppb for drinking water, and reducing high levels of arsenic in a...
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Jun 28 2017
The Canale Villoresi, located north of Milan, Italy, was designed for agricultural irrigation while providing water to the city of Milan. The...
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Jun 23 2017
Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB) of Birmingham, Ala., has consistently achieved the rating of the number-five water system in the United States...
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Jun 22 2017
Seattle Public Utilities has a reputation for providing high-quality water to its customers. That tradition continues with the state-of-the-art...
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Jun 22 2017
In the summer of 2014, Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) in California was facing a trihalomethane (THM) crisis. Drought across the western United...
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Jun 21 2017
The Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority (YCUA) was formed in 1974 when the Charter Township of Ypsilanti and the City of Ypsilanti combined...
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Jun 20 2017
A zero liquid discharge power plant in the western United States was experiencing problems with its cold lime softening system, resulting in an...
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Jun 15 2017
Fairfield Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Butler County, Ohio, was having trouble with its grinders. The plant serves more than 42,500...
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Jun 9 2017
A generation ago, wastewater treatment industry constituents—engineers, equipment manufacturers and owners—agreed that positive-seal...
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Jun 7 2017
Dried-up reservoirs, cracked dirt and empty swimming pools are just a few of the visual reminders of the ongoing California drought. But what...
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Jun 5 2017
It is a fact of life in every industrial facility: Heavy machinery and a cavernous room are a bad combination. The noise generated in such an...
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Jun 1 2017
Built in the 1980s, the Atherton Wastewater Treatment Plant in Atherton, Mo., is operated by Little Blue Valley Sewer District. The facility was...
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May 22 2017
Mishawaka, Ind.’s water department needed a valve installed on an existing 20-in. trunk line, but some conditions complicated the project. The...
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May 17 2017
The Ovivo AnammoPAQ is a sidestream treatment technology that utilizes the power of the anammox bacteria to treat high-nitrogen concentration...
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May 11 2017
With a 2,400-sq-mile service area and approximately 40,000 customers to serve in southeastern Illinois, EJ Water Cooperative was having...
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May 10 2017
The Central Wastewater Treatment Plant of Nord Jæren (SNJ) is located in Stavanger, a city on the southwest coast of Norway. SNJ is located inside...
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May 8 2017
Take a drive down I-65 south of Nashville, Tenn., and at about the time the strains of country music give way to a chorus of songbirds and...
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May 4 2017
From the Wright Brothers’ first successful flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, N.C., to an American landing on the moon, the U.S. has...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $649,000 to the city of Española, N.M., to replace aging, ...
Jul 21 2017
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $3,042,000 to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) to implement...
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Park City Municipal Corp. selected CH2M to design a new water treatment facility set to create improvements in the Utah mountain community ranked...