2013
Keith Boger, founder of WasteWater Technology Trainers (WWTT), offered a class on anaerobic digestion. We finally got around to updating Keith’s material and, last week, we had our first class on anaerobic digestion, sponsored by the City of Oceanside. In preparing for the class, I developed a new found appreciation for anaerobic digestion, not the […]
M∙mg/L: used to cancel mg, L and M (in Mgal) in pounds and pounds/day calculations Mgal/106 gal: used to insert M into the pounds and pounds/day calculations when volume or flow is given in units of gal (106 gal = 1,000,000 gal) or other volume units converted to gal %TS: (usually in sludge or sludge […]
I am sitting here between my grapefruit tree and new raised-bed garden, built this spring and filled with compost I made, now teaming with tomatoes, fava beans, and corn all swaying in the cadence of the evening breeze. Jack London is the author of one of my favorite quotes: “I am a farmer. It is […]
Keith Boger founded WasteWater Technology Trainers (WWTT). Keith originally worked as a chemist for the City of San Diego and then as the Director for the State of California’s Water Quality Control Institute. He was also one of the original authors of exam questions for wastewater treatment plant operator certification in the state. Since we […]
As operators, we consider ourselves professionals, as well we should. Although a slight exaggeration, I believe a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operator protects more lives in a day than a doctor will save in his/her professional career. Consider this plot of the typhoid fever deaths per 100,000 in the U.S. dating back to 1900. The […]