Featured Articles
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New Aqua MegaDisk™ Cloth Media Tertiary Filter Operates In 80% Less Space Than Sand Filters With Comparable Hydraulic Capacity
6/18/2013
The Aqua MegaDisk cloth media filter is yet another breakthrough addition to Aqua-Aerobic Systems’ extensive line of cloth media filters.
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Retrofitting Diffusers Saves Money, Increases Overall Plant Efficiency
6/6/2013
The village of Intercourse located in Leacock Township, PA was in need of a new wastewater treatment system. The system was to be efficient, reliable, and simple to operate and maintain. At the time, Sequencing Batch Reactor technology was emerging as an efficient and economical alternative to conventional flow-through systems.
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Phased Activated Sludge Concept Retrofitted For Compliance With Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Reduction Initiative
1/30/2013
The Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania WWTP discharges into an unnamed tributary which leads into the Pequea Creek Watershed as part of the Susquehanna River Basin.
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Salisbury Retrofits Existing Process With An AquaPASS® System To Comply With The Chesapeake Bay Initiative
11/6/2012
The Salisbury Township WWTP in Gap, PA utilized a conventional activated sludge (CAS) system prior to being retrofi tted with an AquaPASS Phased Activated Sludge System in May 2008.
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Clear Lake Is First In Iowa To Provide Reuse Water For Power Plant!
1/14/2020
Clear Lake Sanitary District (CLSD) was originally built in the early 1950s and utilized a trickling filter system. By 1988, it became evident that the treatment needs of the growing population and increasing storm flow discharges would require the plant to be upgraded
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AquaSBR® System Treats High Strength Vegetable Processing Waste
1/15/2020
In early 1993, Birds Eye Foods was faced with a difficult decision, to construct a new wastewater treatment facility or to retrofit their existing flow-through extended aeration treatment system
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Case Study: Optimizing Biological Phosphorus Removal From An AquaSBR® System
1/10/2005
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.
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MacLaren's Pulp Mill Upgraded To Meet New Requirements And Aid In Protecting The Environment
3/29/2017
MacLaren Industries' kraft pulp mill, located in Thurso, Quebec was built in 1958 and used only a primary treatment process for treatment of its pulp waste until the mid 1990s. It was at this time that more stringent effluent requirements for BOD5 were defined for discharge into the nearby Ottawa River. To meet the new requirements and to make a commitment in protecting the environment, MacLaren decided to employ a secondary treatment process
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Case Study: Fountain Hills Combines Cloth Media Filtration With Membrane System To Get Reuse Quality Effluent At An Economical Cost!
1/10/2005
The Fountain Hills Sanitary District WWTP was first constructed in Fountain Hills, Arizona in 1974 and received an aggressive upgrade in November of 1999. The plant was in need of an upgrade because the original treatment equipment had reached the end of its life expectancy, and the tremendous growth and changing environmental regulations called for it.