Wastewater


Schools to Offer Operators a Leg Up to Management

An Illinois community college and a university have created a program to train and educate water treatment plant operators, supervisors, and managers.

AWE Notes Water Efficiency Bills in Congress

The Alliance for Water Efficiency particularly noted a measure that would provide $50 million for a water efficiency and conservation rebate program.

EPA Itemizes ARRA Awards for Water Infrastructure

Iowa, American Samoa, Hawaii, Utah, and Texas will receive funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for wastewater, drinking water, and water quality management projects.

Lewes, Del., Renews Severn Trent Contract

The company will continue to operate and maintain the town's 1.5-million-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment system.

The Interstate Training Advantage

The New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission has shown that there are advantages to approaching the need for training, and the ways to meet that need, from a regional perspective.

Rentech Enters Engineering Phase for Synfuels Plant

The site location is next to an existing City of Rialto Wastewater Treatment Plant and EnerTech Environmental Regional Bio-Solids Processing Facility.

MSABP: Can You Say Sludgeless?

Just three years ago, the company introduced its technology and it already has a five-year, multimillion-dollar exclusive supply and licensing contract with Teijin Limited.

Northern Kentucky Commission to Use Envista Software

Users will include the Northern Kentucky Water District and Sanitation District No. 1.



King County Recognizes Kenworth's Waste Program

The Renton, Wash., manufacturing plant has had five consecutive years of outstanding compliance with its industrial wastewater discharge permit.

NAWC Backs Reauthorization of Revolving Loan Funds

The National Association of Water Companies said the state revolving loan fund programs have not been reauthorized for more than 12 years.

Michigan Study Notes Strength of Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs

Much work still needs to be done to assess what risk, if any, of the presence of superbugs in aquatic environments poses to humans.

Sanford, Fla., Fires Up Sludge Gasification Facility

The MaxWest system will gasify treated wastewater sludge and provide thermal energy to power city's sludge dryer.

Ohio EPA Persuades Brice Suburb to Stop Stormwater

The village has agreed to reduce sewage overflows.

Eggert Joins Southern Research to Study Contaminants

Institute will focus on ways of cleaning up problematic constituents in water and wastewater sources.