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STEPP seeks to improve water quality by accelerating the implementation and adoption of innovative stormwater management technologies by removing current barriers to innovation, creating regulatory confidence, minimizing duplicative performance evaluation efforts, and establishing a common framework for testing and evaluating both public domain and proprietary stormwater control measures.

WEFTEC, the largest event of its kind in North America, offers water quality professionals the best in water quality education and training. With almost 200 technical sessions, workshops, mobile sessions, local facility tours and 1,000+ exhibitors, it is the premier water conference! The WEFTEC technical program is selected through a rigorous, peer-review process, ensuring that attendees experience the highest-quality education. WEFTEC speakers are experts and innovators, leading the way in water quality. The following paper was presented at WEFTEC 2017.

WEFTEC, the largest event of its kind in North America, offers water quality professionals the best in water quality education and training. With almost 200 technical sessions, workshops, mobile sessions, local facility tours and 1,000+ exhibitors, it is the premier water conference! The WEFTEC technical program is selected through a rigorous, peer-review process, ensuring that attendees experience the highest-quality education. WEFTEC speakers are experts and innovators, leading the way in water quality. The following paper was presented at WEFTEC 2019.

Some things seem too good to be true. But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t.A new, $35 million biosolids system at the Kenneth W. Hotz Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) in Medina County, Ohio, provides energy-performance savings, increased effectiveness, and other sustainable benefits through an innovative design–build performance contract. The innovative delivery approach will increase treatment efficiency and improve performance without customer-rate increases.The delivery approach isn’t the only innovative project feature. The project incorporates advanced technologies that are new or emerging in the U.S. Pulling from the most appropriate options in the world, the design–builder helped the county harness technologies that will reduce the WRF’s annual operating costs by approximately 50% — for a projected annual operating cost of $1.656 million — and will recover essential nutrient resources for sustainable reuse.

Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (OWTSs) play a significant role in nutrient removal to control the impact of nutrient pollution on human and aquatic health. However, studies assessing the sustainability of OWTSs are limited and the impact of the location of the OWTS on sustainability indicators such as greenhouse gas emissions and eutrophication have yet to be examined. This study evaluates...

Primary filtration (PF) is an advanced primary treatment (APT) technology that can be used to replace conventional primary sedimentation process to provide significant benefits at water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). The use of a primary filter with relatively small pore media size [e.g., 5 to 10 micrometer (μm)] yields high total suspended solids (TSS) and biochemical oxygen demand...