Lift stations move wastewater from lower to higher elevation, particularly where the elevation of wastewater sources is not sufficient for […]

Energy benchmarking is an effective and convenient approach to tracking and analyzing energy use of a water treatment plant (WTP) […]

A Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) system is an assemblage of computer and communications equipment that gathers, monitors, and […]

Wastewater treatment facilities are commonly required to implement treatment processes that reduce effluent nutrient concentrations to levels that regulators deem […]

Innovative leadership and collaboration with the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation has allowed the Downers Grove Sanitary District WWTP to become a net-zero energy plant. Read how the district has reduced costs and increased resiliency by running their plant with bio-gas produced on site.

Recently, the Caseyville Township Water Reclamation Facility received a free facility assessment from Illinois EPA's Wastewater Treatment Plant Energy Assessment […]

Most energy assessments identify energy efficiency measures to save facilities between 10% and 30% on annual energy costs. Sometimes the […]

As spring approaches, many lagoon wastewater treatment facility operators are considering strategies for summer algae control. In one recent site […]

Read this case study from a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Carthage, TN that implemented energy efficiency measures to save energy […]

Wastewater treatment plants can benefit from many of the same strategies that make other buildings more efficient, but this smart […]