Waste Clearinghouse Promotes Recycling Efforts
Industrial waste management has emerged as a major problem for all industrial nations. The EPA recently estimated that approximately 260,000,000 dry tons of waste materials are generated...
Containment Aspects, Scrubber Sludge Disposal System
Containment of flue gas desulfurization sludge from a coal-fired power plant was accomplished by Dravo Corporation in an environmentally acceptable manner through the construction of an...
ASCE Sharpens Committee Management
With some 500 committees and $500,000 a year spent on committee travel, ASCE has a management challenge. To avoid waste and boost performance of committees, recently the Society asked...
California's Food Industry: Wastewater Management Challenge
The demand for food products throughout the United States and the world has been partially responsible for the continuous growth of agriculture and food processing in California. This...
Energy Utilization and Conservation in Wastewater Treatment
Rising costs of energy, and its limited supply in the United States, is requiring engineers to investigate the application of energy efficient processes for wastewater treatment. Energy...
Historic Turning Points in Municipal Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal, 1850-1932
1850-1880: Urbanization and development of large public water supplies combined to overload cesspools and privy-vaults. Sewers were constructed to protect public health. 1880-1900: Debate...
European Water Treatment Practices�And What We Can Learn From Them
This article is of crucial significance to the American water-supply industry. We say this because for the most part, American engineers are largely unfamiliar with European water-treatment...
Reviving the Septic Tank
Although collection and secondary treatment systems serve most U.S. Metropolitan areas, approximately 25% of the population still depends on individual sewage waste disposal systems. Estimates...
Cost-Effectiveness of On-Site and Community Sewerage Alternatives
Some research and development work has taken place, over many years, on individual on-site treatment and disposal systems as well as non-conventional systems. Most recent work, however,...
Award-Winning ASCE Papers in Geotechnical Engineering 1950-1959
Papers, Discussions, and Closures from ASCE Proceedings and Journal of the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division
This collection of papers covers a broad range of relevant issues in geotechnical engineering. Topics include capillary phenomena in cohesive soils, final foundation treatment at Hoover...
New Gravity/Pressure Unit Cuts Sludge Dewatering Costs
A new device for dewatering sludges from either industrial or municipal waste treatment plants promises to cut both initial capital and operating costs over more traditional methods such...
Concentric Waste-Treatment Plant Saves Land
An activated-sludge treatment plant in Camden, N.Y. has several innovations: the principal one is the use of concentric tanks�� as distinct from the usual way of having separate, isolated...
Let's Consider Land Treatment, Not Land Disposal
The regulations that control operation and design of land treatment systems are discussed. A solution to control ground water pollution must consider all potential impacts. Pretreatment,...
Wastewater Ozonation: A Process Whose Time Has Come
For many years, ozonation has been a technically viable solution to difficult waste treatment problems. Not until recently, though, has ozonation found growing acceptance as a cost-effective...
Highly Energy Efficient�� Wilton Wastewater Treatment Plant
The municipal wastewater treatment plant for Wilton, Maine, a community of 4,200, received one of two national awards for energy conservation in 1975. The plant includes primary and secondary...
Pilot Plant Program�� Treatment of NYC Water Supply
Many cities with upland reservoirs as their source of water are now finding it necessary to filter the water. Population growth in the upland areas and more stringent standards are the...
PL 92-500 to Cost Metal Finishing Industry $45 Billion
The 1972 amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act will have far their greatest impact on the metal finishing industry. To meet the 1983 requirement of best available technology is...
Recycling Refuse Into Energy
Some 50% of large cities, 10% of small ones reportedly are talking about recycling their municipal refuse. Several are building facilities or have recently begun operations. This article...
208: A Process for Water Quality Management
The Section 208 program is the key to the continuous management of the nation's water pollution clean-up efforts. In the past, regional approaches to water pollution abatement...
County Treats Shredfill Leachate
The project in Cowlitz County, Washington, is the first sanitary shredfill (landfill) to have full environmental control. Shredding refuse has long been deemed superior to ordinary landfilling...
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