Featured Articles

  1. Activating The Sludge In Small Municipal Facultative Waste Lagoon Systems 6/2/2015

    Wastewater treatment lagoons were originally facultative in design — shallow, single and multi-cell lagoon systems that counted on wind, sunlight, anaerobic bacteria, and time for the digestion of the organic components of the wastewater.

  2. A New, Cost-Efficient Way To De-Sludge Your Lagoon 11/29/2023

    Most small towns, all over the world, utilize lagoons for treating their wastewater. Many rural industries also utilize lagoons for storm-water and wastewater treatment. While industrial plants may be able to pay for activated sludge treatment of one design or another, small municipalities simply do not have a choice in treating their small populations’ wastes. By Jim Dartez

  3. Eliminating Sludge Islands In Your Wastewater Lagoon 12/12/2013

    Old municipal and industrial wastewater lagoons have the tendency to build islands of sludge at various locations around the lagoon. It is most common for older lagoons to build such islands wherever wastewater enters the lagoons.

  4. Waste Lagoon Rehabilitation A New Look At An Old Problem 9/19/2011

    Throughout the last half-century the municipal and industrial wastewater treatment industry has depended heavily upon the use of waste lagoons in order to provide relatively clean water that could be returned to the environment. These are often called stabilization lagoons.

  5. A Return On Investment With Bio-Augmentation 10/17/2023

    Henderson, Louisiana is located directly in the center of what is commonly considered ‘Cajun Country.’ Right next door to Breaux Bridge, the town that is known as ‘The Crawfish Capital of the World’; our claim to fame is dealing with the crowds and traffic of that festival every spring. By Ray Robin

  6. Revitalizing A Hog Waste Lagoon 10/24/2023

    A North Carolina hog grower with a brood barn of 200 full-grown sows contacted Reliant Water Technologies to see if we could assist him with one of his waste lagoons. The plan was to locate an aerator on one end of the lagoon and allow for the forward flow of water from a coarse bubble airlift to ‘push’ the water forward.

  7. Water Moving Aerator: How And Why It Works 9/9/2013

    There are two, 2 HP, regenerative blowers on top of the Lagoon Master; each is connected to a set of bubble forming diffuser grids.

  8. Reliant Water Technologies Introduces The Model 2400 Optical Dissolved Oxygen System 10/5/2012

    Reliant Water Technologies recently introduced the new Model 2400 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring and Control System.

  9. The Elimination Of Fecal Coliforms And E. coli In Lagoons 11/29/2023

    Many horse racetracks throughout the world are designed to drain water from the track into a lagoon that is located in the infield of the track. Due to the track being predominantly used for horse racing, there is a high amount of fecal coliform, especially of the Escherichia coli species, bacteria in the water that drains from the track. During the racing season, fecal coliform and E. coli counts increase dramatically and the subsequent drainage of these lagoons can become a problem for the receiving waters. By Jim Dartez, Reliant Water

  10. New Insights Into Waste Lagoon Water Mixing 8/31/2012

    All waste lagoons were first designed and thoughtfully planned considering their locations, soil makeup, and waste reduction processes prior to being implemented.