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Good Old Days Long Gone
Water & Wastes Digest
April 2007
By Lawrence C. Tropea, Jr.
Meeting the challenges of today’s small and rural water and wastewater utility business
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Plant Profile: Treatment with a Touch of Class
Water & Wastes Digest
February 2007
By Tim Gregorski
Scottsdale, Ariz.’s Chaparral Water Treatment Plant incorporates membrane filtration technology following the proven performance of membranes at the nearby Scottsdale Water Campus.
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Right on the Money
Water & Wastes Digest
February 2006
By Tom Galuska
Propagation modeling provides pinpoint accuracy for meter collection system planning
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Population Boom Leads to Plant Expansion
Water & Wastes Digest
March 2005
By David Braden
Recent upgrade allows the Poplar Grove Utility District in southwestern Tennessee to accommodate the needs of 8,000 more residents
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Keeping Up With the Times
Water & Wastes Digest
October 2004
By Tim Gregorski
WWD examines some of North America’s the latest municipal upgrades.
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Silent Treatment
Water & Wastes Digest
October 2003
Megan Rapaduski
Michael Goltz, superintendent of the Mt. Horeb, Wis., Wastewater Treatment Plant, settled on the Val-Matic Swing Check Valve because it specifically addressed the slamming and clogging problems exhibited by the previous swing check valves.
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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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Company Produces Pipeline in Record Time
Water Engineering & Management
July 2001
On March 9, 2000, a 27*-diameter petroleum pipeline ruptured near Caddo Creek in East Texas. This creek is a source of water for Lake Tawakoni, a major water supply for Dallas Water Utilities and nine other water suppliers in Texas. Some 600,000 gallons of reformulated gasoline were spilled into the creek.
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I've Never Met a Rich Sharecropper
Water Quality Products
March 2001
Carl Davidson
Sharecroppers are poor tenant farmers. They farm the land for the owner in exchange for a share of or percentage of the crops they produce for the owner. They do what they are told and have no land to farm themselves.
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Surge Suppression Protects Utility Authority
Water Engineering & Management
September 2000
With its 34 water wells and 280 sewage lift stations, the Escambia County Utility Authority (ECUA) in Pensacola, Fla., is the largest water provider and wastewater manager for a population of about 85,000 in the Florida Panhandle. It also is extremely prone to lightning strikes.
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Water Resources Management in Grand Turk - Part 1
Water Engineering & Management
March 2000
By Fernando PÚrez Monteagudo and Marâa Fernandez Miquel
The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) are located 575 miles southeast of Miami and 100 miles north of Hispaniola. The capital, Cockburn Town, is on Grand Turk Island. These islands are expected to experience a real estate and tourism boom1 and water will be a limiting factor in this expected development.
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Investing in People and Technology:
Water Engineering & Management
March 1999
Molly Whitehead
mproving Employee Efficiency Abstract:As much as treatment facilities rely on effective equipment to perform, this facility's management realized that staff morale and efficiency is much more important to the steady running of the system.
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Computer System Provides a Strategy for Integration
Water Engineering & Management
February 1999
John Jennow, George Madden and Thomas G. Valorose
One water authority needed to find software that could integrate three separate and distinct systems into one compatible unit.
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Achieving Good Data Management
Water Engineering & Management
July 1998
Chris Chalfant, P.E.
Data can be gathered from any source, but to make it useful it must be given structure using a good data management system.
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Pulling the Plug on Corrosion
Water Engineering & Management
September 1997
Todd Hart
Proper maintenance programs and advanced coatings have helped a New York resort town battle corrosion at their wastewater plant.
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Make Your Databases Do the Printing
Water Engineering & Management
August 1996
Charline M. Avey
Indianapolis Water Co. has found that by using their database, an automated map production method can be implemented.
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