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The ability to treat drinking water both efficiently and to the highest standards is a necessity for municipal water utilities. In some instances, however, the backwash requirement of traditional pressure filter systems is more onerous than it needs to be. By comparison, the multi-cell pressure filter design is highly efficient because it generates its own backwash water source from the other operating cells.

In this article, we outline the sources, occurrence, known health issues, and mitigation options for specific contaminants.

Hillsborough County’s $100-million South County Potable Water Project, supported by AMERICAN, boosts water reliability and pressure through 10.7 miles of mains, using innovative design-build collaboration.

In Part 2 of the Get Pumped Up series, explore the hidden flaw in traditional infrastructure planning: it’s too slow for today’s dynamic conditions.

For aging pump systems, a full replacement is not always practical or cost-effective. In such cases, retrofitting offers a compelling alternative, breathing new life into existing infrastructure.

Discover how keeping your pump in shape will help reduce costs and boost profits.

Harboes Bryggeri A/S was facing challenges with the performance of its wastewater treatment plant due to the highly variable chemical oxygen demand (COD) load in the inlet.

Precision management of dissolved oxygen (DO) allows wastewater treatment plant operators to maintain optimal biological conditions in their activated sludge basins. However, older blowers and a lack of advanced aeration oversight can sabotage that effort while substantially wasting money.

A wastewater treatment plant located in Middlebury, Vermont, treats domestic and industrial waste received from a local dairy and a brewery. Its original treatment system consisted of a flow-through activated sludge process with primary clarifiers, anaerobic digesters, and a four-train rotating biological contactor system.

While AMI’s benefits are widely recognized, implementation remains a major challenge for many utilities. This article offers practical insights into navigating the complex path to AMI deployment.

Beaverton Water Division’s transition to Kamstrup AMI and acoustic leak detection is modernizing meter reading, reducing infrastructure costs, improving leak identification, and streamlining operations as deployment progresses.

Water systems are complex, and many things can go awry that can cause a once-compliant plant to fall out of compliance or cause a compliance solution to fail at start-up.