WASTEWATER

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Solutions that offer instant, chemical-free disinfection, manage costs, handle high organic loads, and control emerging contaminants are defining the path forward for water facilities.

WASTEWATER CASE STUDIES AND WHITEPAPERS

  • Disinfection Performance Testing Of High-Efficiency Ultraviolet Water Treatment Chamber

    This is the second in a series of three white papers describing the design and performance of the NeoTech Aqua ReFlex™ treatment chamber. The first describes in detail the theoretical basis for the very high efficiency demonstrated by the chamber. The third paper describes how this chamber design leads to some highly desirable operational advantages beyond just energy ad cost reduction. By J. R. Cooper, Ph. D. and Gwynne Cavender, NeoTech Aqua Solutions, Inc.

  • A Fairy Tale Ending At A Pump Station

    When the Otay River Pump Station had a floating blanket of grease problem, they turned to the Vaughan Chopper Pump to help eliminate it — while also being a cost-effective solution.

  • What Kind Of Data Does Side-Scan Sewer Inspection Collect?

    Learn how side-scanning works, and what the benefits could be for your utility. 

  • Water Treatment Analytics: A Road Map To Greater Efficiency

    From the largest metropolitan water treatment plant (WTP) or wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operations to the smallest rural systems, the goals are essentially the same — achieve regulatory compliance and the most efficient results at the lowest practical cost. The most feasible (i.e., affordable) control solutions vary by process, plant size, and budgetary limitations. Here are several high-level guidelines to achieving a common strategy that works across virtually all applications: good data, properly analyzed, yields good results.

  • How Strategic Valve Installation Prevented Service Disruption at a Senior Living Facility

    Learn how Hydra-Stop’s insertion valve provided new control points to mitigate future disruptions during a service line emergency.

  • Rental Blowers Provide Timely Solutions For Temporary Aeration Concerns

    With a continuous flow of air required to maintain dissolved oxygen (DO) levels, the last thing a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operator wants is to come up short of the volume needed to sustain good microbial growth. With today’s ready availability of high-efficiency rental blowers, losing blowers to unplanned downtime or being unable to test new aeration systems before commissioning are no longer the threats they once were.

  • 10K Muffin Monster Takes Over When Macerators Can't Cut It

    The Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority (CCMA) provides regional wastewater services for the area northeast of San Antonio, Texas and serves the surrounding communities. After years of frustration in dealing with severe problems with plugging of the pump suction lines that led to frequent pump rebuilds, they turned to the 10K Muffin Monster. The 10K Muffin Monster now plays an integral role in this water reclamation plant’s system by grinding the primary sludge and debris that is pumped to the digesters.

  • Aerzen's Delta Hybrid Blower: Features & Maintenance Considerations

    Aerzen’s Delta Hybrid combines positive displacement and screw compressor technologies to deliver high efficiency, low vibration, and reliable performance in high-pressure aeration—requiring careful maintenance to ensure longevity.

  • Reducing H2S And FOG At The Discharge Of A Force Main

    County Operations staff investigated the wastewater collection system that serves a Virginia neighborhood, and found that odor was proliferating throughout the neighborhood. Corrosion of the sewer manholes was clearly evident.

  • Improve Sludge Quality With Sludge Screening

    Plants with Anaerobic Digestion see phenomenal performance improvements in this process when they removed rags, plastics, and inorganic solids from their digester with the Hydro-Sludge Screen from Hydro International. Learn about a few of the many wastewater treatment plants that have benefitted from cleaner sludge. Read this brochure for brief case studies of how plants have improved their overall operations as well as protected valuable process performance and capacity with the Hydro-Sludge Screen.

WASTEWATER APPLICATION NOTES

WASTEWATER PRODUCTS

Veolia Water Technologies combines innovative technology with industry experience to provide economical and effective operation of filtration and water treatment applications.

ST80 is a high performance, rugged thermal dispersion technology air/gas flow meter that combines ultra-reliable, feature-rich electronics with the industry's most extensive selection of application-matched flow sensors to provide a truly superior solution for industrial processes and plant applications. 

Ideal Usage for Utility Pumps: Construction site dewatering, product transfer, emergency standby, sewage transfer, irrigation and farm use.

In addition to reducing carbon, modern wastewater treatment plants also reduce nitrogen and phosphate. For this purpose, the online measurement of ammonium, nitrate and phosphate parameters is required. Nitrite and total phosphate are also occasionally measured.

The YSI TruLab® line includes the 1110 (single channel), 1310 and 1310P (single channel) and 1320 and 1320P(dual channel) instruments providing easy-to-use and calibrate instruments ideal for the laboratory.

Gorman-Rupp's Valve Vaults are compact, weather and vandal resistant custom engineered systems ready to perform a variety of valve functions.

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WASTEWATER VIDEOS

Luis Maturana and Adam Bates share how KSB’s rapid U.S. expansion — new facilities, doubled warehouse capacity, and a strengthened service footprint — is reshaping the pump and valve landscape.

At WEFTEC 2025, Huber’s Simon Randle discusses how emerging pressures in the industry—from PFAS and microplastics to shifting federal funding—are influencing everything from technology development to workforce priorities.

In this episode of The Water Online Show, host Angela Godwin sits down with Mike Saunders from ORENCO to explore how a small Oregon startup founded in a garage grew into an industry leader redefining decentralized wastewater solutions.

The Water Online Show sits down with John Ross and Natalie Sierra of Brown and Caldwell to explore the evolving world of biosolids management.

At WEFTEC 2025, The Water Online Show welcomes Fred Gerringer, Water Reuse National Practice Leader at Brown and Caldwell, for an insightful discussion on the science, strategy, and regulation shaping the future of water reuse.