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Using Technology And Best Business Practices To Make The Best Use Of Resources And Save Public Dollars
2/13/2015
Creating long-term efficiencies and sustainability is a huge focus of today’s government sector. Every day the charge of Public Works’ leaders is to do more, with less. Further, technology, if used correctly, can be an effective tool for organizing work and cutting costs.
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VLR® System For Biological Treatment Case Study
10/8/2014
Economic development has its price and sometimes calls for major upgrades to a community’s wastewater treatment facilities.
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SCU Trace Metal Removal Media Datasheet
6/13/2014
SCU™ specialty media is a proprietary adsorbent which is similar in appearance to granular activated carbon or anthracite but with a higher density and particle hardness. It removes trace levels of various heavy metals from complex waters to levels not possible with standard ion exchange resins.
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Fike Casing Cementing Tool: A Simple Solution
3/17/2014
The ideal pump-and-plug scenario at a new oil well is a single-stage cementing job performed through the bottom of the casing, with the cement circulating to the top of the target area in the annular space. A uniform layer of cementing is created to support and provide a seal around the surface casing. As a result, drilling can resume.
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Public Works And Ethics Go Hand In Hand
3/28/2013
Ethical behavior helps us live and work in a civil society. Human nature dictates that we act in our own self-interest in most circumstances unless we feel a moral obligation to others or society. By Harry C. Lorick
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Reliable Water Service And The Economy
11/20/2012
The American Society of Civil Engineers grades both wastewater and drinking water systems a D-, the lowest ratings of any infrastructure category, including our aging highways and bridges.
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Alternative Workweeks: Productivity Vs. Employee Benefit
11/7/2012
Public agency managers face increasingly limited public funds with demands for increased accountability and greater pressures for transparency of choices for employee work schedules. By Joyce Lorick, LA Consulting, Inc.
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Public Utility Uses Re-Injection Of Treated Arsenic Contaminated Water To Reduce Underground Plume Leaching
6/20/2012
In December 2009, Evoqua was contacted to treat groundwater for arsenic removal to achieve a 1 ppb goal. The 1 ppb goal limit is equivalent to 10 percent of the current drinking water standard in California and represents the first request at this low treatment goal in the US. The treated groundwater is reinjected on the property to reduce the
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Asset Inspections Are Optimal Tool For Maintenance And Capital Improvement
5/22/2012
Infrastructure asset inspection process is a tool that identifies deficiencies, creates backlog, establishes proactive maintenance, and monitors life cycles; as well as assists agencies in identifying projects for their Capital Improvement Program (CIP). These inspections can provide both a short-term benefit through work identification for repair and maintenance efforts and a long-term benefit of project identification of new capital improvements and enhancement. By Michael Garcia, PSM, Program Manager II , Seminole County Public Works and Chandra Greiner, CPM, Consultant, LA Consulting
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BioMag™ And CoMag™ Systems
5/14/2012
The BioMag™ System easily integrates with planned or existing facilities, increasing activated sludge system capacity up to 300% without new tankage, providing control over the depth of secondary sludge blankets and enabling high nutrient removal.