California Project Takes Aim at Efficiency

By Thomas Renner PROJECT AT A GLANCE What:A $38.5 million renovation of the Robert B. Diemer Water Treatment Plant in Yorba Linda, California.The treatment plant is...

Like a Member of the Family

Since its founding in 1929, France-based OLVEA Group has led the way as a European leader in the supply of fish, lard, and vegetable...

The Right Tool for the Job

A goal of piping system design is for the system to maintain continued operation over its life cycle with minimal maintenance. Degradation or failure...

Love Thy Neighbor in Seabrook

By Soren Rasmussen, Landia Gazing across at the view in Seabrook of yachts, wild birds, and palm trees in the welcome breeze, it takes the...

Just Grand: Michigan City Turns to Biodigester for Energy Needs

The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, built its wastewater treatment plant in 1931, and was among the first in the nation to include a...

Sweetening the Deal with EcoFlow Valves

A major U.S. sugar producer has several hundred pumps throughout the plant. These pumps are either using packing, which requires constant maintenance or using mechanical seals,...

Streamlined Process for Full-Service Energy Recovery

In Pali, Rajasthan, India over two hundred factories in the surrounding Punayata Industrial Area provide the economic backbone for the community. Unfortunately, the nearby...

Don’t Wanna Go Back to My Little Cesspool in Aloha, Aloha

By Joseph Harmes The Hawaiian Islands encapsulate every conceivable wastewater infrastructure challenge. High water tables requiring expensive dewatering or inviting contamination from septic tanks, which—by...

Protecting Pumps and Perfecting Septage Receiving in Colorado

Septage, or septic tank sludge, receiving creates extra demands on a water resource recovery facility’s (WRRF) equipment and treatment process. Dozens of septage trucks...

Lowering the Costs and Risks of Managing Biosolids and Organic Waste

NuTerra installed BCR Environmental’s (BCR) CleanB™ system in the City of Alachua’s wastewater treatment plant, enabling it to meet its growing processing needs without...