You know the odor, it makes you cringe. Hydrogen sulfide or “rotten egg” smell is unmistakable. No one wants to smell the horrible odor – especially when the community starts complaining. In addition, hydrogen sulfide is poisonous and presents serious health risks to...
You may have used bioaugmentation to enhance your wastewater treatment or collection system with varying degrees of success. Wastewater bioaugmentation has been performed for many years by introducing outside microbes to the system, either from another plant’s...
In last week’s blog post on the value of water, we focused on the importance of having safe, clean drinking water and the challenges it presents. In this week’s post, the topic is the value of water infrastructure, why we can no longer ignore reality. We’ve...
There’s only so much water, and as much as we’d love to make more, this is all we have. We need to take care of what we have. The value of water isn’t something we can put a price tag on, yet we try. In many of our cities and communities, we tax potable and irrigation...
Phosphorus removal from wastewater is a widespread challenge. Many wastewater treatment plants have problems achieving and maintaining low phosphorus levels required by today’s standards. How do wastewater plants treat phosphorus? Three traditional chemicals for...
Increasing phosphorus regulations means plants must change too With the negative effects of nutrient pollution on the environment and human health becoming more widely known, and as regulations increase, ‘coming close’ to complying isn’t usually going to cut it. If...
