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  1. Domestic Wastewater Treatment In Telluride, CO 10/25/2021

    Last Dollar is a year-round residential community located just outside of Telluride, Colorado. The facility had been reliant on an aging treatment system that was failing quickly and needed immediate replacement to prevent operational fines. The current technology would not meet the new and more stringent effluent requirements in Colorado, so the project had to be completed quickly and within a tight budget. AquaWorks DBO provided the permitting and site engineering support to ensure the project was completed in 8 months from contract award to system operation.

  2. To the Rescue: The DIMMINUTOR® Makes A Difference At Ross Valley Sanitary District 10/21/2021

    Ross Valley Sanitary District in San Rafael, California services approximately 47,000 mostly residential customers over a 27 square mile service area. They have 5 major pump stations, which is where Ross Valley found themselves having the most trouble. The existing channel grinders were simply not reliable. “It was a constant headache,” said Philip Marcantonio, Senior Collection System Worker. “The pumps were ragging up sometimes twice a week and sometimes twice a day.” The plant reported that the machines were not efficient at all. “It was a lot of extra work on us to keep the stations going,” Marcantonio said. On top of that, the constant downtime was causing even more than extra work; it was costing the district a lot of money. They knew this was not a sustainable system to keep their plant and stations running.

  3. SDOX® Units Keep Tyson Foods Operating Without Interruption 10/21/2021

    Tyson Food's regional wastewater treatment plant was in need of replacements for their mechanical and jet aeration equipment for biological treatment and nutrient removal. BlueInGreen replaced two failed blowers with two SDOX® units without disrupting operations.

  4. How Can We Take Climate Change Into Account When Designing Water & Wastewater Treatment Facilities? 10/15/2021

    Scientists have long predicted that one of the impacts of climate change would be an increase in the frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels across the world. We are already seeing it happen across the USA and the world.

  5. Fairlie District Deploy Noise Loggers In New Zealand 10/15/2021

    Installation was completed by Farilie District Council, a rural water authority located in the central South Island of New Zealand. With a number of water supplies in the South Canterbury region, they required the latest digital noise correlation and signal coherence frequency analysis processing software. The Enigma solution was chosen to overcome challenges such as limited recoding and process capabilities.

  6. Leak Detection In Nantes, France 10/15/2021

    The water network management team in Nantes, France is responsible for maintaining supply from a highly complex system of underground water supply pipes. Constant road traffic and restricted access make monitoring, troubleshooting, and upgrading the water network exceptionally challenging. The La Dopea (Direction des Opérateurs Publics de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement) leakage team was tasked with assessing the supply to one particular area of the Nantes Metropole area. Initial investigations indicated substantial losses, but traditional leakage detection methods had failed to identify where these were. The business challenge was identifying and preventing these leaks.

  7. United Utilities Trunk Main Trial 10/15/2021

    United Utilities supplies water to 3 million homes and 200,000 businesses in North West England. Within the Winscales and Scilly Banks service reservoir zones where the trial was to take place, local United Utilities NCI / NIA had previously split the main and quantified losses of 4 liters/sec and 2 liters/sec in the respective halves. Leak detection on trunk mains using correlation techniques has always had potentially limited success for reasons of poor sound propagation and scarcity of accessible fittings. The business challenge was to exceed these limitations, improve efficiency and reduce leakage.

  8. Abilene “Phocus” On Their Non-Revenue Water Program 10/15/2021

    The State of Texas and the region around Abilene in particular has been experiencing an ongoing drought. Abilene takes the region’s need for adequate water supplies seriously and has been analyzing the short-term water needs (5-10years) as well as the long-term water needs (+50years) for its service area. The ongoing drought had pulled the three primary water supply reservoirs for the region down to extremely low levels. In the autumn of 2014: Lake OH Ivie was at 15% capacity; Hubbard Creek Reservoir was at 16% capacity; Lake Fort Phantom Hill was at 32% capacity.

  9. Leak Location On 11 Mains In The UK 10/15/2021

    Leak location on large diameter mains is difficult because the pipe becomes more elastic as the ratio of pipe wall thickness to diameter increases. This results in more rapid absorption of leak energy into the pipe material, with resultant attenuation as distance from the leak increases.

  10. Immediate Results In Veolia Lyon, France 10/15/2021

    Ten Enigma3m loggers were installed in less than two hours on sites located in the city of Lyon. The devices are equipped with a roaming SIM allowing the Enigma3M to select the best GSM network. Some holes were created in the chamber for fitting the aerial and optimizing the GSM data for transmission.