Effluent Contaminants News
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Microvi MNE Outperforms Established Tertiary Ammonia Removal Process at Thames Water Wastewater Treatment Plant
Thames Water Utilities Ltd. and Microvi Biotechnologies completed a collaborative 9-month trial demonstrating Microvi’s novel wastewater treatment, Microvi MNE™ (MNE). The fully automated MNE demonstration plant was configured as a tertiary nitrification system for ammonia removal. Operating between 5-22 degrees Celsius, MNE consistently removed ammonia from wastewater during ...
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City of Liberal implements Veolia’s innovative treatment systems and digital control for their new WWTF
The City of Liberal is constructing a new Wastewater Treatment Facility to handle future increases in flow with improved treatment capabilities. Veolia will provide the Bio Denipho system to achieve BOD, total nitrogen and biological phosphorus removal. Veolia will also provide the Hydrotech Discfilter for enhanced removal of phosphorus and suspended solids. The system will treat average peak ...
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City of Granby, Mo., Agrees to Three-Year Deadline to Settle Clean Water Act Violations at Wastewater Treatment Facility
The city of Granby, Mo., has agreed to an administrative civil settlement with EPA that requires the city to take a series of actions by July 2018 to correct a series of violations related to the operation of its wastewater treatment facility. According to an administrative order for compliance on consent, filed May 13 in Lenexa, Kan., EPA staff performed a compliance sampling inspection of the ...
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EPA Requires Bad River Band to Upgrade Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a compliance plan requiring the Bad River Band of Lake Superior and Chippewa Indians to correct Clean Water Act violations at the wastewater treatment facilities located on the Tribe’s northern Wisconsin reservation. The Bad River Band must upgrade plant operations to correct the violations by January 31, 2014. Violations include ...
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WWEM 2012 to focus on the quality of monitoring- WWEM Conferences
WWEM 2012, the 5th in a series of highly successful environmental monitoring events, will return to the Telford International Centre on 7th and 8th November 2012 to provide visitors with the latest information on regulations, standards, methods and technologies employed in laboratory, field and process monitoring applications. Organised in conjunction with the Environment Agency and the Water ...
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West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Approves Anua’s Platinum Submerged Aerated Filter System
Greensboro, N.C. (April 12, 2012) – Anua’s new Platinum Submerged Aerated Filter (SAF) system received approval from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The West Virginia Sewage Advisory Board accepted the European EN 12566-3 protocol as an “other recognized testing agency.” Per correspondence from the department, “This approval allows for ...
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Cost-Effective, Reliable Stormwater Treatment in the Same Tanks!
Sewer overflows are major contributors to violations in municipal wastewater treatment plants. In the past, there have been only a few ways to handle the wet weather contribution to a plant. Ballasted flocculation or reconfiguring the plant entirely- both very costly options. Biowater has come up with a cost-effective, dependable way to handle these issues. Biowater's CFIC - Continuous Flow ...
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Cost effective stormwater control in existing tanks
Sewer overflows are major contributors to violations in municipal wastewater treatment plants. In the past, there have been only a few ways to handle the wet weather contribution to a plant. Ballasted flocculation or reconfiguring the plant entirely- both very costly options. Biowater has come up with a cost-effective, dependable way to handle these issues. Biowater’s CFIC - Continuous ...
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DC Water Breaks Ground on $1.4 Billion in Environmental Projects at Blue Plains Plant: DC Water first in North America to use thermal hydrolysis for wastewater treatment
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) is set to begin work on two massive environmental projects at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant, the world’s largest facility of its kind. Blue Plains processes an average of 370 million gallons of wastewater per day. - Thermal hydrolysis and anaerobic digesters: DC Water will be the first in North America to ...
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Concord River Pollution Costly for Massachustts Town
BOSTON, Massachusetts (ENS) - The town of Billerica, Massachusetts has agreed to pay a $250,000 penalty to settle allegations that the town discharged pollutants into the Concord River, according to federal and state legal documents filed May 31 in U.S. District Court in Boston. Billerica is a residential community of about 40,000 people in northeastern Massachusetts. The town discharged ...
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