By Joseph Harmes In 1969, when one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States was Suffolk in easternmost Long Island, N.Y., voters approved a $291 million referendum to finance its first large-scale wastewater project in acknowledgement that sewers were an environmental necessity. “Leakage from cesspoolsRead More
Revitalizing One of America’s Most Endangered Rivers with All-Terrain Sewer Technology By Joseph Harmes It was almost like the bountiful Schooling Bass were beaching themselves into the flat-bottomed fishing boat this cloudless day when the blue hues of the sky and river almost matched andRead More
Massive Low-Pressure Sewer System Project Benefits from Real-Time Trends and Analysis By Joseph Harmes The alert pinging smart phones, tablets and computers at South East Water in Australia’s Mornington Peninsula seem facile, even boring, to anyone but a proactive utility: a customer’s grinder pump was activatingRead More
Designing and constructing the largest low pressure sewer system in the Western Hemisphere was far from the original intent of the small Twin Lakes Regional Sewer District (TLRSD) in north-central Indiana.?What was originally envisioned was to provide safe, reliable, cost-effective, sanitary sewer service to the residents of the district,? says Mike Darter, general manager of TLRSD.
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