Repair or Rethink . . .
Moundsville, West Virginia is a small city located along the Ohio River. It is home to sites like Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold and the...
Sharing a Scarce Resource
By Thomas Renner
Water is a treasured resource in the community of Brighton, Colorado. With an average annual rainfall of only 15 inches per year,...
How to Control Activated Sludge with Online Sensors: Part 3 of...
Figure 3: On-Off Control Dissolved Oxygen Response (source: Meck, D., R. Odum, N. Wobbrock, Cornell University)
In the final piece of this series, we detail...
Innovative Technology Improves Residential Water Management: Part 2 of 2
In part 1 of this article, we noted that, in residential settings, drains that can act as a physical barrier to water provide an...
Finding a Pretreatment Solution for Desalination Applications: Part 2 of 2
Last month, we introduced the following study, which consisted of three phases that started in the autumn of 2016 at a site located in...
Automatic Scraper Strainers Protect Critical Membrane Systems
For industrial process facilities, membrane filtration is a valuable, commonly used means of filtering water and wastewater. The challenge is that membrane systems are...
How to Control Activated Sludge with Online Sensors: Part 2...
In part 1 of this series, we introduced a broad view of the use of online instrumentation for control of wastewater treatment aeration, which,...
Ending the scourge of “blown toilets”
For the operators cleaning municipal sewer, storm and sanitary lines, dreaded “blown toilets” can quickly become a community clean-up and public relations nightmare.
“A ‘blown...
New Membrane Technology Handles High Solids, Aids Water Reuse
As global conditions place more stress on water resources, a great deal of attention is being paid to water reuse technologies, particularly those that...
Seriously Good ROI on Septage
When investing in new equipment, what would you consider to be a reasonable payback? Five years? Three years?
At the Kishwaukee Water Reclamation District (KWRD)...









