Monitoring & Testing Magazines & Journals
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International Journal of Environment and Pollution (IJEP)
The international Journal of Environment and Pollution is a refereed journal providing an international forum for the field of environment and pollution. One of three key journals (along with The International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management and and The International Journal of Global Environmental Issues) which together offer complete coverage of key environmental issues, it ...
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Digging Deep for Community Acceptance
It is crucial to consider the public in public works. Wastewater system improvements — especially tunnels — require an understanding and acceptance from those most affected, and project success often hinges on effectively soliciting and addressing construction concerns around areas where people live and work. ...
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Translating Wastewater Surveillance Data
Faced with the need for non-invasive and scalable tools to supplement individual clinical testing and contact tracing efforts, public health officials and wastewater experts have begun turning to wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which is also known as wastewater surveillance. This practice can monitor substances of concern in communities by detecting and quantifying their concentrations in ...
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Who Pays for PFAS Contamination?
Many parts of the U.S. have recently seen increased testing and regulation of groundwater contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or similar chemicals. For example, several northeastern states, including New Jersey, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, have recently enacted regulations limiting PFOA or PFAS ...
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Operational Edge
As companies in the process industries pursue their digital transformation journeys, the collective role of process analyzers and field instruments such as pressure transmitters, flowmeters, and the common pH and conductivity analyzers can vary widely. Thousands of them could be deployed in a manufacturing facility. Although they have not moved physically, these instruments have found themselves ...
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Sharp (Trouble) shooting
Automatic control valves often are viewed as simple pieces of equipment. They open, close, or modulate to control water pressure, flow, level, or pumps. Automatic control valves are found all over the world for use in irrigation, fire protection, aviation, building trades, and waterworks distribution systems to name a few. They are installed in unseen or inconspicuous locations underground, on ...
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Unprecedented Times Call for Smart Measures
Even before this virus, municipalities were operating with a shortage of water resource recovery facility operators - largely due to retirements occurring in an aging workforce, leaving many municipalities in need of immediate replacements and succession plans. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that 8.2% of existing water operators will need to be replaced annually between 2016 and 2026. ...
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A 2020 Perspective on the Evolution of Stormwater Management
2020 is a good year to examine stormwater management progress in the United States over the past few decades. CDM Smith Vice President Virginia Roach offers her perspective on the goals set in the 1990s, rising popularity of green infrastructure, impacts of climate change, lessons learned, and resulting new stormwater management approaches. ...
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Flattening the (Diurnal) Curve
Most sewer flows are characterized by repeatable diurnal patterns that vary across weekdays, weekends, and holidays. Differences in land use also are apparent, and distractions and disruptions of daily life often can be observed. The coronavirus pandemic has touched all of us in some way. Normal is simply not normal anymore. Instead, our usual routines at home, work, and school have been replaced ...
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An Indirect Route with Direct Results
Forging a path to reuse for Southern California pushes through a ...
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Peak Flow Projections
Keep up data collections to assist engineers with developing the best sanitary collection ...
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Harnessing the full benefit of AI in water
Water companies, with their huge asset bases and wide-ranging data, can benefit greatly from advances in artificial intelligence – but what steps should they be taking to reap the rewards? Three leading innovation experts lend their insight to Benjamin Tam, managing director of global technology and innovation consultancy Isle ...
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Recognizing stormwater management achievements
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) Stormwater Institute celebrates five years of the National Municipal Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Awards, which recognizes communities for high-performing stormwater management efforts. The authors discuss the achievements of award-winning communities, including the 2019 overall winners Metro Water Services, Nashville, Tennessee and the City of ...
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Maryland partners with Opti and Walmart on smart pond trials
With next generation technology appearing in more and more parts of water resource recovery facilities, a new partnership in Maryland is considering an interesting question: Can implementing technology directly in retention ponds and other control features lead to more effective stormwater ...
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Barriers to LID
Low impact development has increased in familiarity and implementation as an alternative practice for stormwater management in the past decade, according to a recent survey conducted by the Colorado Stormwater Center in the US. The author discusses its findings. ...
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Keeping pace with mother nature
Florida's Lake Worth Drainage District in the US maximized its capacity to manage stormwater flows by deploying the SmartCover Systems flow monitoring devices and platform. ...
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Deep tunnels: Never maintenance-free
Although tunnels have been used for decades, more utilities are exploring how deep tunnel systems can be integrated with existing wastewater infrastructure given recent technological advances in inspection and monitoring. The authors share lessons learned by several major utilities regarding maintenance in their deep tunnel programs. ...
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Monitoring and analysis of microplastics in water
New analysis methods and practices are under development to standardize the collection, sample preparation, and analysis of microplastics in water and wastewater. ...
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Key water utility trends for 2020
Smart water metering and water resiliency, as well as low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies are top trends that will shape the water utility industry in 2020. ...
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