WASTEWATER
Beyond Clarifiers: How Advanced Primary Filtration Solves Wet Weather Capacity Challenges
Pile cloth media filtration treats wet weather flows in real time, increasing capacity, improving removal efficiency, and helping utilities reduce reliance on limited stormwater storage.
WASTEWATER CASE STUDIES AND WHITEPAPERS
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Advanced Technology Increases ROI In New Ecuador Wastewater Plant
Read how Guayaquil, Ecuador realized significant cost savings and other benefits by selecting cutting-edge, high-efficiency blower technology for a secondary wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
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Valve Upgrades Reduce The Number Of Corrective Work Orders By 99%
A water treatment plant was using conventional electric actuators on valves across the facility, including the modulating Filter Effluent applications. A history of actuator problems prompted plant personnel to consider replacements.
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Options For Retrofitting Existing Sand Filters With Pile Cloth Media
While effective, sand filters can be prohibitively expensive to maintain. For this and other reasons, many WWTPs are retrofitting existing sand filters with pile cloth media filtration (PCMF).
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City Of Warren, MI, Installs Promag W For Waste-Activated Sludge Application
The City of Warren Water Recovery Facility in Michigan, treats and protects the waters of the state. Read the full case study to learn how the City of Warren Water Recovery Facility has been able to attain accurate data at a high repeatability rate since the installation of the Promag W unrestricted mounting 0 x DN electromagnetic flowmeter.
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Aqua TruDense™ Provides Additional Capacity, Improves Settling, And Achieves Enhanced Nutrient Removal
A densified sludge process can improve wastewater treatment by promoting larger, denser sludge particles. This enhances settling, improves nutrient removal, and increases treatment capacity.
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New Insights Into Waste Lagoon Water Mixing
All waste lagoons were first designed and thoughtfully planned considering their locations, soil makeup, and waste reduction processes prior to being implemented.
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Lincoln Winwater Safeguards City Water Supply
The City of Papillion in Nebraska is home to around 20,000 residents who receive their water from two large water towers. These towers are fed by a pump station with the original pipeline infrastructure dictating that both towers needed to be filled simultaneously.
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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.
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Multicore Turbo Blower Demonstration Project A Success In Kansas
The City of Wichita wastewater utility was recently grappling with a difficult issue -- new nutrient limit targets. Kansas asked the city to optimize its operations to achieve those levels.
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How To Balance Dissolved Oxygen Levels For Maximum Efficiency
While dissolved oxygen (DO) levels are critical considerations in aerobic wastewater treatment processes, not every application maintains a consistent level of demand. How industrial wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) track and fulfill those needs make a big difference in the optimum performance and cost-efficiency of their operations.
WASTEWATER APPLICATION NOTES
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Protecting Pumps From Dead Head Conditions
The C445 motor management relay offers the most configurable protection options in the industry, with features specifically designed to protect critical pumps from costly damages due to dead-head and other underloaded or starved pump conditions.
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Panametrics' Technology Proves Key In Supporting Serbia's Flood Prevention Strategy
A water management company in Serbia used Panametrics' ultrasonic flow meter technology for stormwater management, ensuring reliable measurement and accuracy in challenging conditions. The technology allowed for live monitoring of water transfer and reduced the risk of flooding.
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Process Monitoring And Control For Increased Productivity And Efficiency
The Littleton/Englewood wastewater treatment plant, Colorado, put in place processes to effectively monitor the levels of ammonia in their wastewater treatment.
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MEGA-STOP Bell Protection System Aids In Pipe Joint Assembly
Water and wastewater piping come in a variety of materials, joints, and diameters. They can meet a multitude of demands and needs for the country's infrastructure.
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Application Note: Dairy Farms Use YSI Instruments To Map Volume Of Wastewater Lagoons On July 1, 2010, dairy farm waste management plans are due to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. By YSI
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Vacuum Sewer Truck: Optimize Cleaning Performance With The Right Accessories
Selecting the correct accessories will maximize cleaning while minimizing water use, tank refills, labor, and headaches.
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Dissolved Oxygen Measurement In Wastewater Treatment
A wastewater treatment plant separates solids from the liquid, and consists of two basic stages: primary treatment and secondary treatment.
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Application Bulletin: Reverse Osmosis
Osmosis is the phenomenon of lower dissolved solids in water passing through a semi-permeable membrane into higher dissolved solids water until a near equilibrium is reached
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FLEX-TEND® Flexible Expansion Joints, Features And Specifications
FLEX-TEND® flexible expansion joints are designed to protect structures and pipelines from differential movement whether this movement is earthquake induced or the gradual motion of soil subsidence. This bulletin offers a concise listing and discussion of the important features and materials of the double and single ball assemblies.
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What Are You Doing To My Pipe: Can PVC Pipe Be Loaded?
The argument has been used that PVC pipe is delicate and can’t be subjected to any kind of loading. In EBAA's years of testing we have found that is not the case at all. PVC can take an extreme amount of strain.
LATEST INSIGHTS ON WASTEWATER
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A shift in how we approach source water protection is long overdue. Currently, we are trapped in a cycle of escalating costs, forced to treat symptoms like algae and invasive weeds expediently with chemicals while the underlying risk in the reservoir compounds. True risk management requires breaking this cycle.
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Einstein once said of compound interest, "He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn't, pays it." The same logic of compounding applies to the organic sediment accumulating on the floor of your drinking water reservoir. The longer you wait to address it, the more exponentially expensive it becomes to fix.
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Our infrastructure systems have operated in managed deterioration for decades. And not surprisingly, once they deteriorate badly enough and cross over into active failure, all cost discipline disappears.
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Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away, and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.
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Currently, water infrastructure is outdated and fragile, prone to breakages and leaks. Reactive approaches to water infrastructure are only implemented after an incident and are more expensive than simple maintenance fixes. Geotechnical Internet of Things (IoT) devices enable water and wastewater industry professionals to identify and address issues before they escalate into catastrophic events.
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Traditional gravity sewers rely on large-diameter mains, deep trenches, and often multiple lift stations — elements that carry significant capital and restoration costs, particularly in rural or rugged terrain. To improve cost efficiency and sustainability, many municipalities are adopting decentralized collection systems such as Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) systems, Septic Tank Effluent Gravity (STEG) systems, and liquid-only sewers.