Conserving Water Through Residential Water Audit and Leak Detection Programs

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California had three residential water conservation programs developed and pilot tested in its service…

Meeting Stringent Metals Removal Requirements With Iron Adsorption/Coprecipitation

The Water Quality Act of 1987 set the stage for establishing a far more stringent set of metals-removal discharge requirements…

Refinery managers and operators have known that cyanide is present in petroleum refinery effluent for a number years.1,2 Cyanide levels…

Many companies generate large amounts of concentrated acid wastes. Facilities which process metals are very concerned about this problem. A…

The Chevron Polysulfide process has been installed in fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and coker fractionation systems at six Chevron refineries…

A carefully planned and implemented conservation program can reduce water consumption by 10-30 percent. This reduction will help meet demand,…

Contamination of water supplies by pesticides (or herbicides) is a significant public health problem because of the widespread application of…

The City of Everett, Washington, located in Snohomish County, presently treats wastewater for a community of approximately 77,000 people. Maximum…

Attempting to address and solve the wastewater needs of a metropolitan area the size of the City of Dallas is…

Erosion control projects currently play a large role in rehabilitation of urban watersheds in alpine settings for water quality and…

Evaporative chilling, the use of cooling towers t remove heat from a chilled water system directly, is an energy saving…

The winter of 1986-87 provided record low amounts of runoff in many of the watersheds that serve as California’s water…