Newsletter | October 16, 2026

10.16.26 -- Don't Let Institutional Knowledge Retire With Your Operators

IN THIS ISSUE:

Factoring Temperature Into Water Chemistry Reading Accuracy

Water Main Rupture Puts Florida Community At Risk Of Flooding

The Key To Maximizing AMI Value

Digital Master Plans For Water Utilities

Trenchless CFRP Rehabilitation Of Montréal's Critical Water Main

Optimal Baseplate Grouting For Vertical Dry Pit Submersible Pumps

5 Emerging Use Cases For Remote Water Shutoff Valves

Solving Foaming Problems At Your Wastewater Treatment Plant

Smarter Control For Seasonal Demand: How Smart Valves Help Manage Frequent Shutoffs

How ArxZyme BioAug Products Facilitate Process Upset And Recovery

Colorado River Drought Drives Unprecedented Pattern Of Groundwater Loss

Don't Let Institutional Knowledge Retire With Your Operators

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How can water and wastewater treatment professionals maximize polymer performance? This Cleanwater1 webinar explores polymer chemistry, activation, mixing energy, and equipment options that influence treatment effectiveness and reliability. Discover practical strategies for optimizing polymer use through real-world applications, case studies, and independent research on activation approaches. Gain insights that can help improve treatment efficiency and plant performance. Click here to learn more.

FEATURED ARTICLES

Restoring Confidence After Catastrophic Failure: Trenchless CFRP Rehabilitation Of Montréal's Critical Water Main

When critical large-diameter water mains suffer catastrophic failure, trenchless carbon fiber reinforcement provides an efficient, fully structural repair. This method eliminates disruptive excavation, completely restoring pipeline integrity and high-pressure capacity from the inside out.

Water Main Rupture Puts Florida Community At Risk Of Flooding

A water main rupture under pressure in Florida required a custom-designed “live line repair” fitting. Engineers quickly deployed, creating a permanent, corrosion-resistant solution and completing repairs in under 10 hours.

Factoring Temperature Into Water Chemistry Reading Accuracy

In water testing, readings that we believe to be reliable indicators are not always what they seem. Water that exhibits certain chemical or electrical characteristics at laboratory temperatures can provide entirely different readings in the field. Here is a quick review of what to look for in common water tests and why to consider automatic temperature compensation in the instruments used to collect them.

Digital Master Plans For Water Utilities

In this article, Steve Drangsholt, Trinnex Sales representative, and Travis Wagner, VP of Digital Consulting, discuss creating digital master plans, their benefits, and changing the narrative.

Analytics For Water Utilities: The Key To Maximizing AMI Value

Among the many challenges water utilities face are aging infrastructure, an aging workforce, water loss control, asset management, and paying for necessary infrastructure investments. Improving relationships with customers is also a challenge for one in five AWWA survey respondents.

Optimal Baseplate Grouting For Vertical Dry Pit Submersible Pumps

As municipalities increasingly switch to vertical dry pit submersible pumps to address flooding concerns, one critical yet often overlooked installation detail can make or break system performance: baseplate grouting.

Solving Foaming Problems At Your WWTP

This project provides an unusual "before-and-after" comparison of how a high-solids loaded digester system with a Rotamix mixing system performed before and after the Foambuster was installed.

Beyond Non-Payment: 5 Emerging Use Cases For Remote Water Shutoff Valves

Remote shutoff valves are evolving beyond non-payment management, helping utilities improve emergency response, conservation, compliance, operational efficiency, and long-term system resiliency.

How ArxZyme BioAug Products Facilitate Process Upset And Recovery

Discover how WWW ArxZyme bioaugmentation products are an effective solution for rapid recovery from wastewater process upsets, enabling you to quickly rebuild beneficial microbial species and accelerate biological activity.

Smarter Control For Seasonal Demand: How Aquana Smart Valves Help Utilities Manage Frequent Water Shutoffs

Managing water service in high-turnover communities requires balancing operational costs with infrastructure protection. Remote control technology enables utilities to mitigate the risks of frequent shutoffs, reduce labor-intensive field visits, and detect leaks in vacant properties.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

 

Colorado River Drought Drives Unprecedented Pattern Of Groundwater Loss

Using satellite technology, Virginia Tech geoscientists estimated groundwater depletion across the Colorado River Basin, finding recent losses greater in the historically resilient Upper Basin.

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New Study On Urban Wastewater Finds Limited Contribution Of Pharmaceuticals To Overall Toxic Load

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What 2024's Record-Breaking Rainfall Says About The Next El Niño

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Imagine H2O Opens Applications For 2027 Accelerator Programs

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Drinking Water Intelligence Firmly In The Spotlight At World Water Congress

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

SpillSens

SpillSens is a low-cost, multi-alarm digital float sensor designed to act as an early warning system for blockages and sewer overflows.

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Fluid Conservation Systems Inc.

 

 

Promag H 200

The device with genuine two-wire technology and for minimal flow rates.

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Endress+Hauser, Inc.

 

 

Pentair Fairbanks Nijhuis 1900 & 5900 Series

The Fairbanks Nijhuis two-stage horizontal split case pump offers long, reliable service with no maintenance. Designed for general liquid pumping and booster applications.

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Pentair

 

 

Monitor AMI Turbiwell WhiteLED; Auto-drain

High precision, non-contact nephelometer, approved alternative method to US EPA 180.1, for the continuous measurement of turbidity in potable water.

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Swan Analytical USA

 

 

Integrated Software And Analytics

Is your data working for you? For many modern utilities, it can be difficult to get a complete understanding of their true level of operational efficiency — not because they don’t have enough data, but because it is often split between various systems that can’t easily communicate with one another.

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Xylem Vue

 

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

 

2025 LCRI Annual Customer Notifications Checklist

Everything your annual notification needs to include, in one list.

 

SAF-T Float Brochure

The SAF-T Float Safe Accessible Float Technology provides a solution for the safety of service personnel to access and maintain Aqua-Jet Aerators and AquaDDM Mixers with ease.

 

A Changing Grid Is Reshaping Fossil Power Reliability

As fossil power units shift to flexible, grid-balancing roles, frequent cycling destabilizes condensate chemistry. Discover how optimized water treatment and high-capacity resin solutions protect aging equipment, control operational costs, and maintain strict water purity under variable grid conditions.

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Don't Let Institutional Knowledge Retire With Your Operators

Better user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design can help water utilities preserve operator knowledge and bring new hires up to speed.

 

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