Creating Efficiency With Operational Transparency

Channel Islands Beach Community Services District provides water, sanitation, and garbage collection services to approximately 10,000 people in the Channel Islands Harbor area. The...

Stop Pump Station Call Outs

It’s 2:00 AM and a telephone rings in Eckville, Alberta. Rick McKinnon checks the display on his cell phone and groans. It’s another high...

The Right Valve Makes all the Difference

It’s not unusual for water utilities to expand infrastructure to address predictable population growth, but there are more factors today that are causing unexpected...

On TOPS of the World

Throughout his fourteen years with Valley Rural Utilities (VRU), Floyd Ogden has confronted numerous deficiencies with the aging wastewater collection system serving Hidden Lake,...

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...

Increase Productivity, Improve Quality

When a Minnesota-based manufacturer wanted to fabricate an expansive array of  material handling products—including screw conveyors, screw feeders, and bucket elevators for their global...

Retrofit Pays Off

By Dan Widdel, Lakeside Equipment Corporation Before a series of upgrades (totaling $27 million over five years), at the city of Washington’s wastewater treatment plant...

Protecting a Blue Flag Seaside Town

Hidrostal Ltd., the UK sales division of specialist pump manufacturers for the wastewater industry, has provided Yorkshire Water with a reliable solution for a...

Advanced, low-emissions technology adds over 1 gigawatt of power

Located in Niles, Michigan, the Indeck Niles Energy Center must produce the energy equivalent needed to power approximately 635,000 homes and businesses. To do...

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...