Marine Waste Disposal, A Comprehensive Environmental Approach to Planning
The City and County of San Francisco is presently confronting water pollution with a total liquid waste management program based…
Carbon Oxidation-Nitrification In Synthetic Media Trickling Filters
A significant innovation in trickling filtrating technology in recent years has been the use of synthetic (plastic) media in place…
Processing of Combined Physical-Chemical-Biological Sludge
Increasingly, waste treatment systems are being designed to produce effluents of substantially higher quality than can be obtained by conventional…
Aesthetics in the Design of Water Facilities
Although there have been remarkable examples of beautiful design in the water industry, the industry has been among the last…
Full-Scale Testing of a Water Reclamation System
The Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (CCCSD), located in the north-eastern part of the San Francisco Bay area, is currently…
Nitrification and Denitrification Facilities
PART I Nitrification and Denitrification Facilities; PART II Notes on Design Criteria for Suspended Growth Nitrification and Denitrification Systems; PART…
Performance of Alternative Algae Removal Systems
A vexing problem facing use of oxidation ponds is suspended solids (SS) (principally algae) in the pond effluent. A national…
Upgrading Existing Wastewater Treatment Plants
Environmental protection agency technology transfer design seminar for wastewater treatment facilities Orlando, Florida.
Design and Performance Testing of Air Diffusion Units for Melbourne’s SEPP
A major planning effort undertaken in the mid 1950’s by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works resulted in the…
Septic Tank Systems
A review of history and theory of septic tank systems allows the establishment of guidelines for the design and construction…
Implementation of a Computerized Maintenance Management System for the City of Atlanta
This paper describes the activities performed to implement a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) at three water reclamation centers (WRCs),…
Thermal Hydrolysis Considerations for Pre-Digestion Solids Processing
Over the last 15 years, major advances have been made in practical application of thermal hydrolysis (TH) as a pre-anaerobic…