In Control & Beyond Expectations   Water & Wastes Digest July 2005   By William F. Verona and Robert Rumelfanger
“This system has been operating beyond expectations,” commented Philip D’Angelo of JoDAN, “The treated water is well within the compliance limits mandated by the utility’s discharge limits, at only a fraction of the cost previously observed.

Parameters for Water Quality Field Testing   Water & Wastes Digest October 2004   By Tony Pagliaro
The most important clues for a water treatment professional’s decision-making process come from accurate water quality analysis information.

Mishawaka Utilities Serves Up High-Quality Water   Water & Wastes Digest September 2004   By Wayne King
Two-phase water system expansion in Indiana depends on technological advancements

Tennessee Titan   Water & Wastes Digest February 2004   By J. Kernan Crotty
An overflowing sewer made Springfield an unpleasant and unhealthy place to live, and the city’s overflow prevention program was successful only on a limited basis. The city of Springfield has experienced multiple benefits from the Teletouch wireless telemetry systems.

Conservation Agency Battles Erosion, Preserves Wetlands with Computer-Aided Design Tools   Water Engineering & Management April 2003   Chad Mills
In addition to monitoring soil quality and working with landowners to ensure environmentally sensitive farming and grazing practices, the Natural Resources Conservation Service restores wetlands to foster animal and plant life, reinforces stream banks and designs terraces to control flooding. The agency works to prevent runoff of sediments and animal wastes, and it builds dams to control the growth of gullies that have cut into the slope of a hill over the years.
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Profits in People: Training Helps Plants Fill Gaps   Water Engineering & Management October 2002
Spurred by European takeovers and other forms of privatization stressing efficiency and knowledge, U.S. water/wastewater companies are expanding training programs to fill gaps caused by plant closings, cost-cutting and downsizing. Whether they grow their training programs in-house, use outside vendors or a combination of the two, executives say they are able to do a better job filling skill shortages that ensure safer and more efficient plants and that comply with increasingly stringent government regulation.
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Keeping Meters On Line: Accurately Measuring Drinking Water and Sewage   Water Engineering & Management September 2002   Rodney Johnson
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD) has a high stake in keeping its flowmeters up and running with calibrated accuracy. This is especially true for its 278 wholesale water meters used in its vast network of distribution lines that serve 126 communities. It also is true for metering sewage inputs from wholesale customers for its Wastewater Treatment Plant. This article focuses on a unique answer that DWSD found for keeping its magnetic meters online by means of a portable electronic system that verifies and certifies calibration, all done in-line.
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Controlling Hospital Grease, Sludge Discharges   Water & Wastes Digest September 2002
One of the major problem areas in St Petersburg, Florida has two hospitals and a nursing home that discharge to a common sewer line. Historically, the city had to clean this section of the sewer line at least four times a year to avoid blockages and sanitary sewer overflows. Working together, the city and one of the hospitals took action to control the discharge of grease from the hospital's facilities and to reduce the costs of maintenance for both the city and the hospital.

The 6 Rules of Never: What a General Manager Must Know About Technology to Thrive   Water Engineering & Management August 2002   Alan Manning
You cannot apply technology without changing what people do or how they do it. The only way to get a return from technology is to have your staff specifically design a plan that involves all your utility's policies and procedures, assessing and modifying them to maximize the payback from integrated technology. This applies to utilities of any size. Technology must be implemented as a strategy to thrive, to grow and improve.
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Cutting Grease With Ongoing Monitoring and Maintenance   Water Engineering & Management March 2002   James M. Russell
Grease is clogging sewers nationwide, creating a costly mess to clean up and a dilemma for officials and regulators. Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that 75 percent of the sewer systems in the United States work at only half capacity because of grease clogs. The cost of keeping sewers open, a cost borne by taxpayers at a local level, is $25 billion per year. The increase in grease in sewer lines is a direct result of the phenomenal growth in dual-income households who choose to eat out or take-out rather than cook at home.
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Pump Changeout Stops Fouling, Saves Energy   Water Engineering & Management January 2002
The pumps at the Stony Brook Lift Station in Suffolk County, N.Y. used to clog so often that crews anticipated an event as part of their weekly routine.
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Small Town Finds Big Technology Affordable   Water Engineering & Management November 2001   By Mary Turner
Rapid changes in technology make it vital for small utilities such as Wrightstown to update their systems. IPMC software components make it easy to update, integrate and expand the applications. Non-proprietary software helps ensure that data will be available and usable with existing or future system software. Data preservation in an open architecture format allows for data migration to other software applications as may be required when working with an engineering consultant.
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Microwave Propagation Helps Measure Sludge Density   Water Engineering & Management October 2001   John Hemphill
Measuring sludge density using microwave propagation can offer a high degree of accuracy even under the worst process conditions.
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Using Variable Frequency Drives for Sewage Lift Stations   Water & Wastes Digest July 2001
High in the Pocono Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania, the small town of Tobyhanna was in need of a high head, small flow sewage lift pump.
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Flexible Monitoring System Helps Ohio Company Meet Daily EPA Measurement Requirements   Water & Wastes Digest May 2001
An Ohio utility company provides water plant operator services to facilities throughout the state, including several very large travel center operations. Daily monitoring became time consuming and costly, so they sought a more efficient solution by investigating plant monitoring systems.
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Web-Based and Wireless REVOLUTIONS   Water Quality Products May 2001   Lorraine Keating, Prism Visual Software
The media predicts that virtually all work as we know it soon will be Web-based and wireless. With the proliferation of PDAs and cell phones, and with their continually decreasing costs, this statement is hard to refute. An article published in Software Technology magazine stated that to characterize this new technology as a "revolution" is an understatement. Rather it is a "cataclysmic change."
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E-Business   Water Quality Products April 2001   Dale B. Langefels, Crane Environmental
With so many water treatment technologies and ways to apply them, a major challenge to our industry is to develop online configurators that allow the user to select and order a system that best fits his specific needs.
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French Firms Create Better Ways of Monitoring and Controlling Drinking Water Quality   Water Engineering & Management March 2001
"We may not have any oil, but we have ideas!" This saying, common in France after the first oil shock in the 1970s and 1980s, has been transformed into tangible reality, particularly in the field of analysis and automation in the water industry.

Riding the Tides to Information Integration and Improved Performance   Water Engineering & Management March 2001   Paul Borzo
San Diego Water has taken a giant technological leap forward. It has gone from a 15-year-old monitoring system operating with tone telemetry on leased lines to a state-of-the-art supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that integrates numerous technology systems throughout the enterprise.
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