Codigestion: How to Make It a Financial *Win-Win* for All Parties
In recent years, the practice of co-digesting sewage sludge with other high strength organic wastes has become more common, as…
Development of a Land Application Program for Class B Biosolids at the North Davis Sewer District
A study evaluated the potential for developing a land application program for Class B biosolids produced by the North Davis…
Focus on Trenchless Technology Results in Successful Interceptor Sewer Replacement
The City of Lake Oswego, Oregon faced difficult questions with their main interceptor sewer running through Oswego Lake being seismically…
Hydraulic Analysis* Inspection* and Condition Assessment of the City of San Diego PS65 FM
Pump station capacity upgrades are required at Pump Station No. 65 (PS65) to adequately handle typical dry-weather flows and peak…
Rehabilitation of a Hydraulically Limited Sewer 30-Feet Deep Under Interstate-5
With a planned expansion to an upstream pump station, the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services, Oregon (City), determined…
Flood Grouting Sanitary Sewers for Infiltration Control
The1950s-era concrete pipe sanitary sewer system in Seattle’s Broadview neighborhood experiences significant wet weather inflow and infiltration. Extreme wet weather…
Decision Logic for Selecting Wastewater Force Main Inspection Program Tools
The roster of technologies available for wastewater force main inspection has grown from 19 tools three years ago to 37…
CIPP Rehabilitation of Sewers in the Beaver State * Design, Construction, and Lessons Learned
As the name “Beaver State” suggests, areas of the state of Oregon are populated by beavers and as these beaver…
Institutional Knowledge and Succession Planning in The Cloud: A Low-Cost Way to Capture How Things Really Work
One of the key challenges of maintaining a utility’s operational performance is the preservation of critical information necessary to optimally…
Moving beyond Spreadsheet Spaghetti and Vintage Data – How Cincinnati MSD is Harnessing the Power of Analytics to Improve Business Results
Imagine a wastewater treatment plant reducing equipment failures by 20% over 3 years (see Figure 5). At the same time,…
Notes from the War Room Don’t Let Performance Data Kill Your Strategy
Setting up a performance measurement system with levels of service, metrics and targets is a good start. A great second…
Strategic IT Planning via Enterprise Architecture * A Case Study from Portland Water Bureau * Portland, Oregon
This paper describes how the Portland Water Bureau (PWB) successfully leveraged the enterprise architecture approach to strategic information technology (IT)…