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• Innovations In Clarifiers Increase Capacity While Improving Water Quality

  Texler clarifiers are designed to settle out more turbidity and other substances in order to fully optimize treatment processes, while at the same time reducing costs and increasing capacity.

• Introducing Xylem’s Leopold Texler Lamella Clarifier

  Xylem introduces the Leopold Texler lamella clarifier, with a flexible design for ease and efficiency. This presentation discusses the benefits of Texler and demonstrates some of the details of this exciting new technology.

• Leopold Texler™: Innovation for Clarification

  Xylem introduces the latest innovation for clarification: the Leopold Texler lamella clarifier. Texler’s inclined lamella settler increases the effective clarification area. This reduces the required space by 80% compared to conventional rectangular clarifiers and allows for water flow to be increased within the same small footprint.

• Xylem’s Revolutionary Leopold Type 360 Underdrain Features Innovative Backwashing Capability

  Xylem now offers the Leopold Type 360 underdrain, a bolt down underdrain system for greenfield projects and water treatment filtration rehabilitation projects. The underdrain system has an innovative design concept where backwash water flows in a 360-degree pattern, increasing efficiency by up to 20%.

• An Underdrain Like No Other

  Matt Shoemaker, North American Sales Manager for Leopold -- A Xylem Brand, talks through the features of the Type 360 Underdrain, a bolt-down system with a design that allows for longer filter runs, higher efficiency, less backwash water, and extended media life. With a flow concept that avoids dead zones and patented self-cleaning capabilities, the Type 360 is easy to own and operate. Get a close look and hear more about its unique properties in this video.

• Leopold Type 360 Underdrain: Video

  The Leopold brand of Xylem has been providing the most efficient water and wastewater treatment filtration systems available since 1922. The Leopold difference – effectively backwashing 100 percent of the media.

• Harmful Algae: How To Stay Ahead Of The Bloom

  It’s the call no water treatment plant superintendent wants to receive, especially not while on vacation. Andy McClure, Superintendent of Toledo, Ohio’s Collins Park Water Treatment Plant, answered his phone to hear his head of operations report that the level of microcystin in the finished water was high, caused by a large harmful algal bloom (HAB) that was impacting the plant’s Lake Erie intake.

• Filter Technology Saves Colorado Plant 50,000 GPD

  Combined with the installation of the new filter media and wash troughs, this particular type of underdrain and media retainer brought the water treatment plant’s operations up to speed.

• Retrofit Significantly Reduces Backwash Cycle Interval, Duration And Water Use For Georgia Utility

  A Leopold filter system helped save the North Columbus Resource Facility approximately 1,000,000 gallons of water per day that was previously used for backwash purposes.

• Bioloop Retrofit Reduces Energy Consumption By 43 Percent

  When a broken shaft caused a malfunction in one of the brush aerators at the village of Liberty, NY, WWTP, the village worked with its engineers to develop a plan for repair and upgrade.

• Oxelia: An Ozone-Enhanced Biologically Active Filtration System

  Xylem’s Leopold Oxelia is designed for municipal wastewater treatment. The ozone-enhanced biologically active filtration system and multi-barrier solution combines ozone, filtration and analytical instrumentation to deliver optimal wastewater treatment for water reuse and discharge into sensitive waters.

• Howard County, Maryland Sets The Pace In Restoring Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem

  The Howard County, Maryland, Bureau of Utilities completed a project at the Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant to improve the quality of the plant’s effluent discharge and to reduce harmful nutrients reaching Chesapeake Bay.