Featured Solutions
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The Rise Of Digital Twins And Decision Intelligence In Water Utilities
2/21/2020
Decision support system at water utilities are evolving with new technology and machine learning. An interview with Luis Montestruque, Vice President, Digital Solutions at Xylem, reveals how digital twins and decision intelligence are helping utilities better understand their infrastructure so they can make smarter decisions.
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What Is PFAS?
2/21/2020
PFOA (perfluorooctanic acid) and PFOS (perflurooctane sulfonate) are organic synthetic chemicals that have been used in manufacturing a multitude of industrial and consumer-based products including coatings, carpeting, and fire-fighting foams. Over several decades, they have contaminated the environment, specifically our drinking water sources, causing significant health concerns that recently prompted the EPA to take action.
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New Water Treatment Plant Features First Dissolved Air Flotation System In Illinois
2/17/2020
After six years of planning, design and construction, the City of Staunton, Illinois replaced its deteriorating municipal water treatment plant (circa 1925) with a modern 2-MGD facility that incorporates the state’s first dissolved air flotation (DAF) clarification system in the process chain.
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Leopold Clari-DAF System Delivers TOC Removal, Helps Wyoming Water
2/17/2020
The Buffalo Water Treatment Plant in the city of Buffalo, WY, receives raw water by gravity feed through an 18-inch line that taps a stream known as Clear Creek, which flows down from the higher-elevation Tie Hack Reservoir.
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Olathe, KS Cedar Creek Plant Boasts The First In-Line Fermenter In The Country
2/17/2020
The City of Olathe is located just outside of Kansas City and is home to a growing population of 126,000, making Olathe the fifth most populous city in Kansas. Residents depend on the local Cedar Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to meet their water demand.
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A Model Integration Of State-Of-The-Art Technologies That Satisfied Both Initial And Long-Term Considerations
2/17/2020
The surrounding areas of Rock Creek Public Sewer District of Jefferson County, Missouri experienced substantial development in recent years overloading existing privately owned wastewater plant capacities.
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Sanitaire SBR System Boosts Capacity, Reliability Without Building A New Facility
2/17/2020
Jefferson City, the Capitol of Missouri, has operated a sanitary sewage collection system dating back to the 1800s. The generations of infrastructure included a trickling filter treatment plant that first entered service in 1967 and underwent major upgrades involving screening, primary clarification, and secondary treatment over the course of 1969-77.
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Successful Retrofit ‘By The Numbers’
2/14/2020
JEA, formerly Jacksonsonville Electric Authority, ranks among the nation’s largest and most efficient community-owned electric, water and sewer utilities.
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Significant Upgrades Enable City Of Atherton To Meet State’s DNR Discharge Requirements
2/14/2020
Built in the 1980s, Little Blue Valley Sewer District operates Atherton, which was designed to reduce the primary process chain to preliminary bar screening and aerated grit removal, while relying solely on secondary treatment performed in four, standalone 42-ft by 400-ft aeration/clarification basins.
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Wastewater Utility Gains Clog-Resistant Lift Stations With Prefabricated Fiberglass Units
2/14/2020
The city of Haverhill, MA, a community of 68,000, shares much in common with the sewage infrastructure of other long-established New England municipalities.