Newsletter | February 27, 2024

02.27.24 -- Fighting PFAS With Plants; Arsenic In Landfills Is Still Leaching Into Groundwater

IN THIS ISSUE:

Replaced Screen Brings WWTP From The Stone Age To The Modern Age

Lift Stations: Attacking The 'New Sewage' With Vaughan Chopper Pumps

How To Clean, Inspect, And Calibrate pH Sensors

5 Ways To Make Removing PFAS Easier

Asset Management: A Playbook For Water And Wastewater Utilities

Improving Wastewater Quality And Reducing OPEX To Support Direct Potable Reuse

Making The Most Of Data And Decision Intelligence

Water Quality Real-Time Analysis: Corrosion And Contaminant Detection Before It’s Too Late

Remote Monitoring Of Fresh Water And Sewage

Fighting PFAS With Plants

Pumped Up: How The OC Impeller Changes Chopper Pumps

Arsenic In Landfills Is Still Leaching Into Groundwater

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FEATURED ARTICLES

Lift Stations: Attacking The 'New Sewage' With Vaughan Chopper Pumps

Disposable, throw-away products are making raw sewage pumping tougher than ever. The Jefferson Street Pump Station at the city of Centralia, WA, had a problem demanding a cost-effective solution.

5 Ways To Make Removing PFAS Easier For Small Communities

There are a few things that smaller water treatment plants should keep in mind when homing in on the most viable technologies for PFAS. 

Replaced Screen Brings WWTP From The Stone Age To The Modern Age

Read about a highly effective technology that enabled a city’s operations to remove such a high percentage of inorganics that the downstream processing is more effective and components are less stressed.

How To Clean, Inspect, And Calibrate pH Sensors

Once a pH sensor is installed in the process and operating, how do you determine when it is time to take the sensor out of the process and do a cleaning or a calibration? Does one perform both a cleaning and a calibration or just a cleaning or just a calibration?

Asset Management: A Playbook For Water And Wastewater Utilities

This white paper provides a comprehensive guide for water and wastewater agencies to understand and implement asset management, offering additional support and coaching to ensure effective application.

Improving Wastewater Quality And Reducing OPEX To Support Direct Potable Reuse

Prolonged droughts and depleted groundwater levels has led El Paso Water (EPW) to develop alternative water sources. After decades operating successful non-potable and indirect potable reuse programs, the municipality will be among the firsts in the U.S. to utilize direct potable reuse (DPR).

Making The Most Of Data And Decision Intelligence

Hear how utilities are overcoming operational challenges, such as non-revenue water and leak detection, using digital technologies.

Remote Monitoring Of Fresh Water And Sewage

As water and wastewater systems expand, scalable centralized monitoring enables efficient management of distributed assets and meets evolving user demands.

Water Quality Real-Time Analysis: Corrosion And Contaminant Detection Before It’s Too Late

This article will explain the benefits of process analytical technology (PAT), including how it can be used to detect and prevent corrosion and contamination.

Pumped Up: How The OC Impeller Changes Chopper Pumps

If a high-head, low-flow pump feeds into a high-pressure force main, large solids passages in the impeller can cause excessive vibration. Operating high, and to the left of the performance curve requires a pump designed to handle that sort of application.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Fighting PFAS With Plants

UMD Biology student Rory Westerman is trying to find a plant that can absorb PFAS well (hyperaccumulator) and a fungi that can break those chemicals down. If successful, the plants and fungi could deliver a one-two punch to PFAS.

EPA Expands Its Water Technical Assistance Program To Help More Communities Access Historic Federal Infrastructure Funding

Micro-Hydropower Technology Enables Cities And Industries To Harness Renewable Energy From Water Pipelines

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $50M From Investing In America Agenda To Clean Up Legacy Pollution On Federal Lands And Waters

Europe’s Proactive Policy Approach Advances US$476B Water & Wastewater CAPEX Outlook By 2030

AMWA’s Water Policy Conference Will Feature Interactive Panels On Climate Change, Lead Service Line Removal

WRF Seeks Pre-proposals For High-Priority Utility Research

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Brochure: AMI Codes-II CC

Colorimetric process analyzer (DPD-method) for measurement and dosing control of disinfectants such as free chlorine, monochloramine, total residual chlorine, and combined chlorine.

Pinnacle Ozone Solutions Overview (Part 1)

Explore how Pinnacle Ozone Solutions created a product that was reliable, had a level of redundancy, and had an ability to have spare part components readily available. 

PISTA TURBO Grit Washer Brochure

The PISTA TURBO Grit Washer uses TRI-CLEANSE TECHNOLOGY to produce clean grit while minimizing the odor caused by putrescible organics and the costs associated with growing landfill restrictions. Smith & Loveless’ PISTA TURBO Grit Washer featuring TRI-CLEANSE TECHNOLOGY boasts a sleek, compact design with a similar footprint to S&L’s screw conveyor.

FEATURED GUEST COLUMNS

Arsenic In Landfills Is Still Leaching Into Groundwater

Arsenic has long been considered “the king of poisons.” Films such as “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Frank Capra and “The Name of the Rose” by Jean-Jacques Annaud illustrate the deadly effect that a high dose has on people. But when someone experiences arsenic poisoning, it’s usually not the direct result of a diabolical plot — in fact, it usually isn’t. So how do you figure out how the arsenic got into someone’s bloodstream?

Washing Microplastics Down The Drain — And Onto Farms

Researchers sampled biosolids from three Australian states and calculated the average contribution of microplastics per person. Roughly 80% came from washing clothes, driving the need to protect agricultural soil from contamination by making simple changes at home, mandating filters on washing machines, and introducing more effective wastewater treatment.

PRODUCT FOCUS

WATERFLUX 3100 Electromagnetic Flow Meter - KROHNE, Inc.

Lead Service Line (LSL) Software Platform - BlueConduit

LB Booster Pump - Goulds Water Technology -- A Xylem Brand

elimi-NITE 2.0 Denitrification System - Leopold -- A Xylem Brand

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