Featured Case Studies and Articles

41. Channel Monster Cuts Maintenance Costs And Protects Pumps In Santa Ana 3/20/2013

    In recent years maintenance operators at the Segerstrom Lift Station located in the City of Santa Ana, CA have noticed an escalation in pump ragging and blockages. Engineers sought the help of a well-known and highly recommended wastewater treatment manufacturer.

42. Screenings Washers Make Fine Screening Possible At Ontario WWTP 11/22/2010

    When you screen wastewater with 1/4” (6mm) perforated plate panels you are going to capture a lot of stuff. The result? Tons of trash and debris — big stuff, small stuff and smelly stuff — pulled from the wastewater channel along with tons of fecal matter.

43. Muffin Monsters Help BP Oil Spill Vessels Keep Working 9/28/2010

    In the first weeks of the BP oil spill, T&T Marine Salvage arrived on scene quickly to skim and recover oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon sinking.

44. JWC's Honey Monster Helps Big Fish Environmental Find Clean Water 8/2/2010

    For several years, local Michigan municipalities were overloaded with septage disposal issues and it was difficult for private pumpers to offload as land-application of septage became illegal. So John Campbell, founder of Big Fish Environmental and a 29-year veteran of septic tank pumping, started developing a unique and efficient septage receiving and treatment plant design. By JWC Environmental

     

45. JWC Environmental | IPEC Replaces Failed Screen At Beef Processing Plant 3/4/2010

    A Midwest beef slaughter operation, which processes 550 head of cattle per day, had installed wedge wire screening ahead of their DAF to reduce the solids loading to the flotation unit.

46. Olympians Live The Dream: Monsters Keep It Clean On Whistler Mountain 1/31/2010

    Whistler Resort, located in British Columbia, Canada, was the host for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. While athletes around the world were training, long-planned upgrades to the Whistler Resort wastewater treatment plant had been underway to ensure completion in time for the Olympics where Whistler expected thousands of athletes, spectators, and media.

47. Monster Helps Landfill Produce More Methane Gas For Clean, Green Energy 11/23/2009

    Researchers in Michigan are trying to determine if liquid septage can super-charge the breakdown of garbage inside landfills. Is septage the secret ingredient needed to turn a regular landfill into a bioreactor landfill – producing more biogas and freeing up space for even more garbage? By JWC Environmental

48. Monster Compactor Cleans-Up At Seattle Treatment Plant 1/16/2009

    In 2004 a team of researchers from King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division took on the task of cleaning up problems with the discharged screenings at their two treatment plants. The screenings were filled with excessive water, fecal and other organic matter. By JWC Environmental

49. Wastewater Treatment Plant Takes A Bite Out Of Tough Solids 1/16/2009

    The City of Hammonton’s original steel bar screen rusted while continually allowing debris to pass through to the oxidation ditch and final clarifier. Floatables found their way through the plant to the UV trough, clogging the RAS and internal recycle pumps along the way. Managers of the Hammonton Wastewater Treatment Plant took on the challenge of finding a more efficient screening system. By JWC Environmental

50. Santa Barbara Correctional Facility Puts Waste In Its Place 1/16/2009

    When clothing, towels, rags and trash joined the waste stream from toilets at the Santa Barbara County Jail, local wastewater treatment plant officials had a serious issue. Inmates were intentionally clogging and blocking downstream pumps and systems inside the plant, and the county needed to plunge the problem.