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Revisiting Entex Treatment at Woburn Superfund Site – Six Years Later

In December of 2016 Entex’s Webitat submerged fixed film installation at the Superfund site at Woburn, MA started up. Eighteen Webitat units were installed, anchored on a specially built pier in this lagoon. The original objective was to remove ammonia from the system. While the treatment objectives were complex, involving a formula to include temperature and alkalinity, generally we needed to treat to below 1 mg/l of ammonia.

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Phantom Ranch WavTex Installation Announcement

Entex Technologies recently completed an exciting installation of its WavTex Integrated Fixed-Film Activated Sludge (IFAS) system at the Phantom Ranch Wastewater Reclamation Facility (WRF), located at the base of the Grand Canyon. The Phantom Ranch is a popular destination for hikers and mule riders, attracting thousands of visitors each year.

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Entex WavTex Featured in the WEAO Spring 2022 Magazine

Entex’s WavTex IFAS Installation for Peterborough, Ontario was featured in the Spring 2022 Edition of Influents, the official publication of the Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO). Complementing the issue’s theme of Innovative and Alternate Treatment Technologies, the article describes a fixed-film WavTex system as an alternate treatment approach from the plant’s previous IFAS configuration consisting of suspended MBBR media.

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Solar Powered Biological Wastewater Treatment

Does your wastewater treatment system require energy efficient alternatives for BOD and nutrient removal? If so, Entex’s innovative solar powered WavTexTM module will be a great fit for your system. Featuring our proven EnTextileTM attached growth media, the module utilizes all of the benefits of Entex’s WavTex biological process with none of the operating costs or demands for a local power source.

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DeQuincy, LA Octopus Installation Announcement

The wastewater treatment plant in DeQuincy, LA had an aging aeration system providing poor mixing and treatment. Entex replaced this system with 9 floating Octopus modules. The installation was staged to ensure no interruption in operations.

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Of Megadroughts and Infrastructure

Reports that the Western US has entered a megadrought caught my attention. Some say it’s the worst in 1,200 years. How timely that political leaders in Washington are now debating an infrastructure initiative including water and wastewater. I couldn’t help but correlate this news with anthropologist’s conclusions that the last

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In Defense of the Humble Lagoon

Imagine for a moment that you are a heterotrophic bacterium and you have the good fortune to be floating amidst municipal sewage in a wastewater treatment plant. You have a steady supply of food, someone is blowing fresh air through your water and also is looking after your needs on things like pH and nutrients. For the next twelve hours or so,

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Wastewater Testing for COVID-19

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been noticing reports of the detection of the novel corona virus in wastewater and the potential utility in monitoring it as public health tool. The U.S. CDC has been following these results as well and has published official guidance on wastewater surveillance testing.

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Complete Your Aeration or Biological System with Entex Blowers

In serving both our municipal and industrial customers, Entex works with a wide variety of systems with different needs, limits, and challenges. One need that all of these systems have in common is air. Whether airflow is distributed through coarse or fine bubble diffusers or through one of our fixed-film media systems, a well

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Okeechobee, FL WavTex Installation Announcement

The Blue Cypress Golf & RV Resort needed a new wastewater plant capable of treating 50,000 gpd. Entex, in partnership with Galene Water Treatment, incorporated our patented WavTex system in their FRP packaged plant to meet permit limits of < 15 mg/L of BOD5 and < 6 mg/L of TKN. High seasonal load variations provided additional challenges.

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A Tale of Two Lagoons Part III: Nutrient Removal and Disappearing Algae

Entex installed a floating WavTex and Octopus system in the Pax, WV wastewater treatment lagoon in late July 2020. Just 2 months after the installation, the plant operator has reported that the floating duckweed had been steadily disappearing, the suspended algae was gone, the green tint in the effluent had gone away, and that he was surprised to be able to see the gravel on the slope of the lagoon floor.

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International Building Products Webitat Installation Announcement

The wastewater treatment lagoons at an International Building Products Company needed to meet their effluent ammonia limits for direct outfall. Entex replaced four broken Ringlace-style modules with just two Webitat modules. The Webitats are made from 304L stainless steel and hosts high surface area, nearly indestructible BioWeb media.

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Webitats in Wintertime: Rockford, OH

When friends or family ask me how a wastewater treatment plant works, I often start by telling them that the process is fundamentally the same as what happens in any pond, river, lake, or stream. The bacteria eat the waste while using up oxygen and they do it faster if it is warmer. Given that we know that the most important parameters in treating the

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