Water Demand Management Within the Integrated Resource Planning Process
This paper highlights the central concepts surrounding long-term water conservation as incorporated into the integrated resource planning process. The Water…
Benefits of the United States Nationwide Plumbing Efficiency Standards
In 2000, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and California Urban Water Conservation Council partnered to study the merits of…
Improving Water Quality in Drinking Water Reservoirs Using Hypolimnetic Oxygenation
Summertime hypolimnetic anoxia is a common phenomenon in productive drinking water reservoirs. It can result in a number of negative…
Startup Experience Of The San Diego Metro Biosolids Center Centrifuge Thickening Process
The City of San Diego recently completed the first three years of operation of its new Metro Biosolids Center (MBC)…
That Boat Won*t Float: When Water Plant Construction And Lake Lovers Collide
A 1998 update to the County's Water and Sewer Master Plan projecting infrastructure needs for the next 50 years revealed…
The 2002 Winter Olympics A Test Case For Source Water Protection
The Salt Lake City Watershed Canyons water supply is a unique system given its proximity to a growing population, recreation…
Self-Cleaning Consolidation Conduit Captures, Stores and Transports Augusta, Maine’s Largest Combined Sewer Overflows to WWTF
The Augusta Sanitary District is implementing the second of its four-phase Long-Term Control Plan for the abatement of its combined…
Biological Iron Removal From An Oregon Groundwater Rule Implementation Strategies
The biological iron removal process uses naturally occurring bacteria to catalyze the oxidation of dissolved iron. Chemical oxidants, such as…
Development of Groundwater Rule Implementation Strategies at the Honolulu Board of Water Supply
The Honolulu Board of Water Supply provides drinking water to 800,000 people on the island of Oahu. Their water supply…
14 Miles of RO-More Local Well Water, Less Imported Colorado River Water, and a Cleaner Aquifer for Orange County, CA
The objective of this paper is to explain the technical, regulatory and community challenges and their potential solutions with the…
Survey of Bromate Ion in Drinking Waters
A nationwide survey of ozonation utilities, entitled the “AWWARF Bromate Survey”, was devised to understand bromate occurrence (formation) at full-scale…
Operational Improvements From Start-Up Of Owasa*s Class-A Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion
The thermophilic digestion system at the Mason Farm WWTP in Chapel Hill North Carolina was brought on line in August…