Wastewater Instrumentation Resources
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FPI Mag Meter Meets The Needs Of A Water Distribution Plant In Italy
5/24/2022
McCrometer, and channel partner Tecnova, were able to help meet the demands of this water distribution customer by identifying and supplying the necessary meter to satisfy their specific needs.
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Wastewater Monitoring Took Off During The COVID-19 Pandemic — And Here's How It Could Help Head Off Future Outbreaks
5/9/2022
A community’s sewage holds clues about its COVID-19 burden. Over the course of the pandemic, wastewater surveillance has become an increasingly popular way to try to understand local infection trends.
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How IoT Could Open The Floodgates To Innovative Water Management Projects
5/5/2022
As the water industry continues to adopt more high-tech and data-centric solutions, it is important to consider the communications infrastructure that supports such investments.
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4 Keys To Adopting Industry 4.0 At Your Water Processing Facility
5/5/2022
As the water industry continues to walk the road of digital transformation, here’s a step-by-step guide to help utilities keep pace.
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Leveraging ddPCR Technology For Accurate Wastewater Surveillance Testing
4/20/2022
At this stage in the COVID-19 pandemic, where disease levels are diminishing in several parts of the U.S., authorities seeking to detect and isolate new outbreaks have found it best to transition from a triage-based clinical testing strategy to a broad surveillance strategy. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has turned to wastewater testing for surveillance because this form of community-based testing allows authorities to detect spikes in viral levels in a community days before individuals experience clinical symptoms while encompassing the part of the population that is asymptomatic or hesitant to be tested.
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Navigating Through Uncharted Waters, Part Two: How Peter Ng Is Giving Back To His Community
3/21/2022
In Part Two of Navigating Through Uncharted Waters, we caught up with Peter Ng, a Wastewater Technician who continues to help get wastewater samples for Covid research. At the beginning of the pandemic, Ng was tapped to be a Disaster Service Worker for the City and County of San Francisco helping to deliver food to the vulnerable population as well as be a translator to senior citizens. As Ng explains, this was something he was always meant to do.
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Math Solutions Explained: Calculate Food-to-Microorganism (F-M) Ratio
3/15/2022
The food-to-microorganism (F-M) ratio is a process control numeric value advantageous to determine the proper number of microorganisms for the biological treatment process. The solution of calculating F-M ratio uses the influent volume of wastewater into an activated sludge system (flow MGD), incoming carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD) (mg/L) concentration into the aeration tank, mixed liquor volatile suspended solids (MLVSS) concentration (mg/L), and quantity (in gallons) of the respective aeration system.
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Navigating Through Uncharted Waters: How SFPUC's Wastewater Enterprise Stepped In To Help With COVID Monitoring
3/7/2022
On February 25, 2020, Mayor London N. Breed declared a local emergency. The legal document put into action the mobilization of City resources, accelerated emergency planning, and staffing to prepare in the event that COVID-19 appeared in the community. Ryan Batjiaka, a Resource Recovery Specialist for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) recalls what it was like the first few days after receiving the news.
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Be There Without Being There – SITRANS Store IQ
3/2/2022
After years of relying on an inflexible tracking process, A.P. Nonweiler introduced cloud-based remote monitoring technology to increase inventory transparency, save valuable man-hours, and minimize the risk of costly shutdowns.
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State-Of-The-Art Wastewater Analysis Systems Will Be Key To Guarding Public Health In The Future
1/12/2022
Wastewater is suddenly an important source for data and insight for solving problems beyond the scope of traditional water management.