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    Water

    A Modest Upswing

    Dec. 15, 2014
    About the author: Neda Simeonova is editorial director of Water & Wastes Digest. Simeonova can be reached at [email protected] or 847.391.1011.After what seemed to be a more...
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    Reforming Conservation

    Dec. 15, 2014
    Effective water use demands more than a one-size-fits-all approach
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    2014 Top Water & Wastewater Projects

    Dec. 15, 2014
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    2014 State of the Industry

    Dec. 15, 2014
    About the author: For additional information, contact W&WD at [email protected] to you by Water & Wastes DigestundefinedWater & Wastes Digest (W&WD) strives tostay...
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    Utility Management

    Reducing Non-Revenue Water Loss in Redmond

    Dec. 15, 2014
    The state of Oregon wants its utilities to keep non-revenue water (NRW) loss at or below the American Water Works Assn.’s national average of 10% to 15%, much of which can be ...

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    Soft Drink Supplier Monitors Hydrogen Sulfide in Bottled Drinking Water

    Britvic Soft Drinks Ltd. is one of the U.K.’s largest suppliers of branded still soft drinks and branded carbonates. Based in Chelmsford, Essex, U.K., the company operates seven...
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    Disposal System Avoids Soil & Groundwater Contamination

    A chemical processing company has an onsite chemical laboratory that handles fluids such as acids, bases, standard oxidizing and reducing chemicals, and miscellaneous organic ...
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    Refurbishing Sand Filter Underdrains to Improve Hydraulic Capacity & Solids Removal Efficiency

    The Traveling Bridge Sand Filter, also known as the automatic backwash filter (ABF) has been utilized on water and wastewater projects for more than 50 years. There are a number...
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    Flowmeter Helps Maintain Food-to-Microorganisim Balance in Return-Activated Sludge Line

    Dec. 15, 2014
    Keene Wastewater Treat­ment Plant (WWTP) uses a secondary treatment process called activated sludge, a process that converts non-settleable substances into biological floc. This...
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    IFAS System Triples Nitrification Capacity of TF/SC Facility

    The Coldwater Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Michigan utilizes a trickling filter/solids contact (TF/SC) process for secondary wastewater treatment. The facility has an ...
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    An Energy-Saving City Proud of Its Water

    Dec. 15, 2014
    Hillsboro Water Department, located approximately 15 miles west of Portland in the city of Hillsboro, Ore., serves approximately 80,000 customers. The city’s service area includes...
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    Wastewater Treatment

    Brewing Up Efficient Treatment

    Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y., which was unable to send its wastewater to a public treatment facility, built its own private 20,000-gal-per-day industrial membrane bioreactor...
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    Water

    Couplings Repair Pipe in Dundee, Fla.

    Dec. 15, 2014
    A gas company bore into the ground in a residential area in Dundee, Fla. The boring went right through a 10-in. asbestos cement (AC) pipe, completely shattering it. The company...
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    Collection Systems

    Pumps Reduce Maintenance & Downtime

    When Veolia Water North America needed reliablepumps that were easily serviced, the company contacted Netzsch. Veolia North America operates the solids processing facilities and...
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    Filter Achieves TSS Discharge Limits

    Dec. 15, 2014
    A chicken processing facility in central North Carolina generates a daily average of about 625 gal per minute (gpm) of wastewater from the various processes within the facility...
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    Equalizing the Flow in Paradise

    Dec. 15, 2014
    A remote Caribbean island resort owned by a global corporation faced myriad challenges related to its existing sequencing batch reactor (SBR). It needed a new solution for water...
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    Mixing & Aeration Reduce THM Levels by 53% in Water Tank

    The city of Rockville, Md., has taken a proactive approach to meeting water quality regulatory compliance for its drinking water system. An unexpected notice of violation for ...
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    Bioremediation Technology Improves Injection Well Performance

    Dec. 15, 2014
    Facing closure of a 49-unit apartment complex in Arizona because of wastewater overflow in effluent injection wells, the engineer turned to bioremediation to bring the system ...
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    Virginia Pollution Control Plant Relines Treatment Pond

    Dec. 15, 2014
    Built in the early 1970s, the Water Pollution Con­trol Plant Northside Facility in Danville, Va., is re­sponsible for treating both domestic and industrial waste. This facility...
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    Wastewater Treatment Plant Gets a Grip on Grease

    Dec. 15, 2014
    Indiana facility installs grease receiving station to reduce the amount of debris discharged into its grease tank
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    California Resort Community Wipes Out Pump Clog Problems

    The main culprit causing regular pump clogs in the community of Big Bear City, Calif., is one that occurs all too often in collection systems across the nation: consumer flushables...