Last month, the Entex sales team was in Wichita, KS for the Kansas Rural Water Association Conference. The show was geared toward operators in the area, which allowed our sales team to receive direct feedback on challenges they are facing at their plants. The dialogue was focused around solutions to reach stricter permit limits and how difficult it is to do so without increasing tankage or otherwise spending a large amount of funds on plant upgrades.

Kansas municipal wastewater treatment plants are currently facing a few different problems that have town council members and plant operators looking for solutions to alleviate spending and improve their treatment performance. Initially, Kansas’ state budget was slashed, leaving wastewater treatment plants with less funding. More recently, legislation was passed in Kansas to lower the amount of total nitrogen allowed in plants’ effluent to 10 mg/L, which is a difficult permit to meet with many of Kansas’ plant tankage and technology.

The show provided a great opportunity to speak with operators about our fixed-film retrofit technologies that enable a plant to increase their biological concentration and treatment capacity with the existing tankage to help them meet their permits.