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The city of Grass Valley owns and operates the Grass Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant that provides service for a population of approximately 12,000…
Circa 2006
Durango, Colo., is a historic town in the Rocky Mountains whose heyday hinged on the silver mining boom in the late 1800s. Then, wild west…
Roseburg Urban Sanitary Authority (RUSA), based in Roseburg, Ore., has been a Mission customer since 2010 and uses M800 Series Mission Communications…
The Turner Co. is a family-owned precast firm, founded in 2001 and based in Rhome, Texas, at the northwest corner of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex…
Once Legionella is on a ship, it is impossible to eliminate as long as persistent and ever-present biofilm exists in the piping systems. If control…
The existing Lakewood Lift Station at Lakewood Park, located in Saint Charles, Miss., is an emergency lift station that operates only during high…
Texarkana Water Utilities rehabilitated a concrete clarifier in their Millwood Potable Water Treatment Plant to effectively treat potable water.
The…
Overview
The city of Camas Wastewater Treatment Plant was faced with replacing their existing cloth media disk filters. The existing filters used a…
The Problem
A new bottle recycling center in North Carolina needed to process 75 million lb of compressed polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.…
The DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management (DWM), established in 1942, services over 5,000 miles of water and wastewater pipes in the…
The city of Rushville, Ind., had to remedy a consent order filed in 2007 for its untreated combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges that were…
Situated about 45 miles southwest of Tampa, Manatee county’s lush environment needs water to thrive, and prudent management of that water is…
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…
Dealing with tough debris and clogged pumps and pipes are significant and costly issues for many municipal public works departments. These problems…
Enactment of the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule and the Stage 2 Disinfectant and Disinfection Byproduct Rule (D/DBPR) will require…
Overview
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection issued a nutrient management strategy for freshwater non-tidal streams focusing on…
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…
Servicing more than 3,000 residents in the Greenfield Village and Copper Creek subdivisions in northwest Houston, Texas, Harris County Utility…
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…
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…
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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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