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GettyImages-2219628794_450_300 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

  • Devastated Community Finds Innovative Wastewater Solution

    The community of Kinglake West was on a waiting list to receive government financing for a new sewer system when, in 2009, a disastrous fire swept through the area. The damage was so extensive that funding for a wastewater collection system was expedited. The new system needed to be up and running as soon as possible, without being an undue financial burden to homeowners.

  • Troubleshooting A Sudden Fecal Coliform Non-Compliance Event

    A municipal wastewater treatment plant investigated a sudden increase in fecal coliform exceedance events.

  • Embracing... Septage?

    Two things are perhaps certain about septage: it is highly variable; and, by its very nature — spewing odorous compounds and elements that can cause disease — it is ‘objectionable.’ Or is it?

  • Responsible Reclamation – City of Abilene, Texas

    To combat drought, Abilene, Texas, implemented a reuse system utilizing O3​ + BAC to remove trace organics. This solution met strict standards, ensured water resilience, and proved more cost-effective than AOP alternatives.

  • Kearney, MO, Wipes Up Treatment Trouble With Brushless Screening

    When the Kearney, MO wastewater treatment plant began plans to upgrade its headworks they choose JWC Environmental’s Brushless Finescreen Monster to replace its old coarse screen.

  • Defining Lamella In The Sedimentation Process

    Lamella, or lamellae, is a term frequently used when discussing sedimentation and clarifier design. Lamella clarifiers can be used in applications ranging from municipal water and wastewater treatment to various industrial applications. The primary benefit of utilizing lamella clarifiers over conventional clarifiers is reduced footprint. However, the term “lamella” is often used too broadly in the industry without clear intention.

  • Thrust Restraint Design Equations And Soil Parameters For Ductile Iron And PVC Pipe

    These equations and soil parameters are an effort to provide the piping system designer with conservative techniques and parameters for the design of underground restrained joint piping systems. 

  • Do More With Less: Integrating Nutrient Removal Control Improves Treatment Capacity And Efficiency

    Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are facing many challenges. Permits on nitrogen and phosphorus in the effluent water are progressively becoming stricter in order to protect surface waters from eutrophication. At the same time, plants are required to reduce both energy and chemical consumption and are often challenged with limited time and staff. In total, they are required to do more with less. In order to meet these challenges, a plant with a Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) in Green Lake, Wisconsin was upgraded with an advanced process control system – the OSCAR process performance optimizer with NURO controller.

  • 5 Quick Tips On Mechanical Aeration

    Are you not getting the aeration performance you expect? Perhaps you’re not even aware that your system is lagging. In this age of doing more with less — practically a mandate considering high water-quality demands coupled with tight municipal budgets — operational optimization is essential. Since mechanical aeration is a cornerstone of successful wastewater treatment, it’s a natural place to focus your optimization and troubleshooting efforts.

  • Custom Water Panel Answers Multiple Water Questions

    A mid-size water system in the southeast was looking to pull together multiple measurements in a single panel. After reviewing off-the-shelf solutions, they realized there was nothing that met their requirements.

WASTEWATER APPLICATION NOTES

  • 2 Applications That Triggered The Rise Of Coriolis Flow Measurement

    Coriolis measurement has been adopted as a default technology in many application scenarios due to its high accuracy and immunity to process variables (temperature, pressure and flow profile). However, Coriolis wasn't always widely accepted. Two applications, in particular, helped what was once a nascent flow measurement technology gain a foothold in the marketplace.

  • Orion DUAL STAR™ Quick Start Note - Nitrate In Water & Wastewater The Thermo Scientific Orion DUAL STAR meter shows the results of both input channels simultaneously.
  • Greenline In Wastewater Treatment For Pollution Control - Improving Environmental Quality Through Advanced Chemical Dosing Solutions

    This application note explores how Greenline pumps enhance odor control systems by delivering precise chemical dosing for odor mitigation and pH control, ensuring cleaner air and improved quality of life.  

  • Removal Of PFCs With Activated Carbon

    In recent years, various perflorinated chemicals (PFCs) have come under increasing scrutiny due to their presence in the environment, in animals, and in human blood samples. There are two major classes of PFCs: perfluoroalkyl sulfonates such as perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and long chain perfluoroalkyl carboxylates such as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA).

  • Sewage Pump Station Level Application

    The most common level application in the water and waste water industry is the infamous wet well. With its line-of-sight measurement technology, rugged sensor, narrow laser beam and virtually nonexistent maintenance requirements or on-site calibration, ABB’s LLT100 laser level transmitter answers most concerns related to wet well level measurements and makes it easy to calculate what could amount to a substantial return on investment.

  • 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.

  • Managing Storm And Surface Water With ForeSITE UL Monitoring System

    As flooding increases along coastal and river-adjacent communities, the need for low-cost, reliable monitoring and warning systems has become a critical factor for managing these issues in real time, without requiring major infrastructure overhauls.

  • Understanding The Different Phosphorus Tests

    In wastewater treatment, phosphorus testing can quickly become confusing. For example, there are three different tests. So, which test was performed? Test results can be displayed in two different forms. So, which form was utilized? Tests can measure both particulate and dissolved phosphorus. So, was the sample filtered?

  • Analysis Of Pesticide Residue In Spinach Using The AutoMate-Q40 An Automated QuEChERS Solution

    QuEChERS is a Quick-Easy-Cheap-Effective-Rugged-Safe extraction method that has been developed for the determination of pesticide residues in agricultural commodities.

  • Aerated Biological Nitrogen Removal

    Excess ammonia in receiving waters causes algal blooms that decrease oxygen levels. For this reason, many wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) must limit ammonia in discharge. Mike Rousey, Hach Company

WASTEWATER PRODUCTS

CHEM-FEED® CFPS Engineered Skid System ship fully assembled for simple drop-in-place install and fast startup. CHEM-FEED® CFPS skids are constructed of strong, light-weight chemical and UV resistant polyethylene and feature leak-free threadless connections. Pipe material options include PVC, CPVC, PVDF, and Chem Proline® (PE).

CHEM-FEED Skids are available in One, Two and Three Pump Models with your choice of Blue-White peristaltic or Diaphragm Metering Pumps.

The FLUXUS ADM 5107 is FLEXIM's solution for many flow metering applications found in the water and wastewater sector and adjacent industries. As FLEXIMs basic and economic alternative, the ADM 5107 offers the same benefits in terms of accuracy and reliability as its bigger brothers, the FLUXUS ADM 7407 and ADM 8027.

The MBBR/IFAS technology experts at Headworks have developed a smarter way to treat wastewater for reuse. The result is the Headworks Integrated Treatment (HIT™) System: a modular, compact wastewater treatment plant that uses proven moving bed biofilm technology to generate reuse quality water.   

U.S. Pipe Fabrication delivers world-class ductile iron and steel piping solutions, with custom fabrication, advanced coatings, and industry-leading linings to meet every waterworks and industrial project.

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

IFAS (Integrated Film Activated Sludge) is an economical solution for the upgrade and expansion of existing activated sludge systems. IFAS is particularly suitable to plants where additional aerations basins cannot be accommodated.

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WASTEWATER VIDEOS

Explore ozone technology and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), with expert insights on real-world applications, water safety, and innovations shaping municipal and industrial treatment systems.

Explore ozone system optimization with industry experts, covering performance strategies, field insights, automation, and common design pitfalls to improve efficiency, compliance, and long-term reliability in water treatment.

Go behind the scenes of ozone system service, exploring startup, maintenance, troubleshooting, and PinnacleCare™ support to ensure reliable, efficient operation of mission-critical installations.

Explore nanobubble technology’s science, benefits, and real-world applications in water treatment and agriculture, improving gas transfer, efficiency, and sustainability across a wide range of industries.

On this episode of The Water Online Show, hosts Travis Kennedy and Kevin Westerling interview Fred Gerringer, Brown and Caldwell’s Water Reuse National Practice Leader, about the creation of a first-of-its-kind State Water Reuse Regulatory Guide being developed for the WateReuse Association and its partner organizations.