Stantec Awarded Comprehensive Wastewater Project
Portland, OR - Stantec, a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm, is providing Program Controls, Engineering Services and Construction Management to the City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) during the design development, construction, startup and commissioning of significant infrastructure upgrades for two major local wastewater treatment plants: Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP) and the Tryon Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (TCWTP). BES...
Koch Membrane Systems Installs the UK’s Largest Membrane Bioreactor System
Wilmington, MA — Facing limited space and strict water directives, Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) upgraded the Woolston Wastewater Treatment Works near Southampton, England — providing increased production capacity without expanding the plant’s footprint. KMS, in cooperation with 4Delivery, replaced the Woolston facility’s existing conventional activated sludge system with the PULSION® MBR ultrafiltration membrane — dramatically improving effluent quality by increasing nutrient removal and achie...
City of Malibu Completes New Water Treatment/Water Recycling Facility
This video outlines the path incoming water takes to become treated recycled water for irrigation. Learn more at MalibuCity.org/CCWTF
Scottish Water Launches Demonstration of Microvi's Revolutionary Wastewater Treatment Technology
HAYWARD, Calif. - An innovative new wastewater treatment demonstration is in place at Scottish Water's Development Centre next to Bo'Ness Wastewater Treatment Works. The installation is a collaboration between Microvi (treatment technology and design), WesTech Engineering Inc. (process equipment and design), and Scottish Water. The installation utilizes the Microvi MNE™ process, based on Microvi's proprietary MicroNiche EngineeringTM (MNE) platform for intensifying biological processes. Again...
Palo Alto, California, Enlists Brown and Caldwell to Design Wastewater Treatment Upgrades
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., — Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, today announced its selection by the City of Palo Alto to provide design services for secondary treatment upgrades at the city’s Regional Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP). Operational since 1934 and serving the communities of Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Stanford University, and the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, the RWQCP with 39 million gallons per day (MGD)...
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
Genesis Water Technologies municipal wastewater treatment system solutions for centralized and decentralized wastewater treatment for communities, towns, and cities.
Microvi MNE Implemented at Thames Water Wastewater Treatment Plant in UK to Demonstrate Ammonia Removal in Cold Temperatures
HAYWARD, Calif., - Thames Water Utilities Ltd., Microvi Biotechnologies, and WesTech Engineering, Inc. are conducting a collaborative demonstration for transformational wastewater treatment at the Thames Water treatment plant in Sherfield-on-Loddon, UK. This demonstration of Microvi's proprietary treatment technology, Microvi MNE™, was installed and commissioned in June. The Microvi MNE process could work within Thames Water's existing infrastructure and aims to help with impending challenge...
Bluesky 3D Models Help Anglian Water Improve Water and Waste Water Infrastructure
Highly detailed 3D models, derived from the latest aerial photography, are helping Anglian Water design, build and communicate major infrastructure and non-infrastructure asset projects across the east of England. Created by aerial mapping company Bluesky, the 3D models are being used by the @one Alliance, a collaboration of consultants and contractors working together to deliver more than half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. The Bluesky models are being used to create 3D animat...
Rising Wastewater Operating Costs are Main Driver of Water Tariff Growth in 2018
The results of GWI’s 2018 Global Water Tariff Survey have revealed that the average tariff for wastewater services grew by 4.1% between July 2017 and July 2018, compared with a 3.5% growth in the average water tariff over the same period. The survey results, drawing from data collected by GWI on water and wastewater tariffs across 512 cities in 191 countries, suggest rising wastewater operating costs are a key driver of the rate hikes seen across North America and Europe this year. The averag...
New Water Treatment Facility Helps Malibu Combat Climate Change
(Malibu, CA) — The City of Malibu will cut the ribbon to mark the official opening of its new state-of-the-art water treatment facility on Friday, October 5 at 11:00 AM. The largest infrastructure project in the City’s history, the Civic Center Water Treatment Facility will replace outdated septic systems, enhancing the iconic area to provide a new level of sustainable water management. With advanced technology and engineering practices, the facility will capture and treat nearly 200,000 gallons...