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    Dissolved sulphite A1566
    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    A chemical processing company has an onsite chemical laboratory that handles fluids such as acids, bases, standard oxidizing and reducing chemicals, and miscellaneous organic ...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    Keene Wastewater Treat­ment Plant (WWTP) uses a secondary treatment process called activated sludge, a process that converts non-settleable substances into biological floc. This...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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 ...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
    HYMAX in Haines City, Florida
    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
    Caption 1
    When Veolia Water North America needed reliablepumps that were easily serviced, the company contacted Netzsch. Veolia North America operates the solids processing facilities and...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
    Remote-Island-microBLOX-Ovivo
    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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 ...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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 ...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    Indiana facility installs grease receiving station to reduce the amount of debris discharged into its grease tank
    Dec. 15, 2014
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    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...
    Dec. 15, 2014