Wastewater Contaminant Removal Resources

  1. SWAN Corner: Utilizing IoT Data To Revolutionize Municipal Tertiary Treatment 10/4/2021

    The DE NORA TETRA Modular DeepBed Filter (MDBF) Plant is an established tertiary wastewater filtration technology for the UK municipal water market to remove total suspended solids (TSS) before final effluent is discharged to a water course.

  2. Optimizing The Biological Process With Claros Process Management 9/28/2021

    The Wastewater Treatment Plant of Barstow, California (USA), sits in a challenging geographic and demographic position on a straight line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Operating a biological nutrient removal system, the plant treats 2.1 million gallons of water per day and discharges into percolation ponds. Kody Tompkins is the Chief Plant Operator of the facility.

  3. Reduce Energy, Water, And OPEX With Modern Decentralized Wastewater Treatment 9/7/2021

    The benefits of the facultative membrane bioreactor (FMBR) are examined, along with results of a pilot demonstration project to further prove efficacy.

  4. Community Wastewater Treatment Options Expand With Decentralized Treatment Approaches 7/6/2021

    Sometimes conventional wastewater treatment solutions won’t work for a given application, and sometimes a nonconventional approach is simply the better choice for high-quality, cost-effective performance.

  5. Beautiful Bull Shoals — And The Wastewater Treatment Plant — Just A Stone’s Throw Away 5/27/2021

    We all love it when a plan comes together. In July 1952 in Arkansas, when President Harry S. Truman dedicated the Bull Shoals dam on the White River, which created Bull Shoals Lake, it, as planned, brought about a boom in tourism — and how.

  6. Riviera Utilities WWTP Upgrades To State-Of-The-Art Aerobic Granular Sludge Technology 5/24/2021

    Instead of taking the traditional approach of adding an additional oxidation ditch to increase treatment capacity, Riviera Utilities had the desire to “future-proof” the plant and prepare to meet more stringent effluent requirements.

  7. Treating Contaminated Groundwater: Advanced Iron Removal System 5/11/2021

    The City of Belleville, Ontario, planned on re-developing downtown waterfront property into a public space, but there was one problem: the history of the site had led to groundwater contamination.  

  8. Biolac Long Sludge Age Treatment Combined With MRI Plate Settlers Achieves Low Nutrient Limits 4/8/2021

    The Tri-Lakes Wastewater Treatment Facility located in Monument, CO, receives flow from the Woodmoor, Palmer Lake, and Monument Sanitation Districts. The plant discharges treated effluent to Monument Creek, which is within the Fountain Creek Water Shed. Originally, the Tri-Lakes facility consisted of a three-cell lagoon. This was replaced by a two-basin Biolac Wave-Ox system, which was installed in 1990 and later upgraded in 1998 to a three-basin system with a capacity of 4.2 MGD.

  9. Trending In Wastewater Treatment: Industrial Vacuum Evaporation Systems 3/8/2021

    Sought after in a variety of market sectors for their performance and utility, industrial vacuum evaporation systems are in the midst of a surge. For the unacquainted, this primer explains the reasons why.

  10. Challenges Surrounding Developing Cannabis-Wastewater Handling And Treatment Best Practices 2/25/2021

    With any new and upcoming industry, regulations surrounding product development, market research, and potential regulatory impacts must be evaluated. But what happens when that new industry involves a product that is illegal to produce on a federal level, but legal on a state level? This unusual circumstance dictates a more expansive set of considerations and potential issues for all stakeholders involved.