In a world where pet ownership is increasingly shaped by precision, sustainability, and aesthetics, even fish tanks have ...

Adding around £100 to the average home rates bill could help tackle Northern Ireland’s ongoing wastewater crisis, it’s been ...

Thirty years on since the opening of its first dedicated wastewater treatment plant, The Clear Creek Conservancy District (CCCD) has more than doubled flow capacity at the coveted Heritage Lake in ...

Domes cover large clarifier tanks at the WLSSD sewage treatment plant in 2018. In the tanks, clumps of bacteria settle out of the water as sludge. Most of the bacteria are returned to an earlier ...

ELK RIVER, Minn. — Midge flies have taken over the Elk River Wastewater Treatment Plant. “They’re in our vehicles, they’re in our equipment, they’re in our air handling system,” said ...

Public Works Director Gary Janzen said that the issues were found in the clarifiers, which are essential settling tanks designed to remove solid particles and enhance water quality.

The latest issues were discovered in the plant’s clarifiers — large tanks where unfinished water is churned and allowed to settle to separate solids and contaminants from the water before it ...

One of the four primary clarifier tanks at the Water Pollution Control Plant in Davenport, seen Aug. 15, 2024. This tank holds about 1.3 million gallons.

The contractor is about 75 percent done taking down the nitrifying towers and 50 percent done with demolition as a whole, said UCSD Executive Director Rick Manner.

Citizens who live near the city’s two waste water treatment plants, which treat Lexington’s sewage, have been complaining of a “rotten-egg” odor since late 2022.