This Month's Practice Area
Each month in 2022, WEF will focus on a particular topic within the water sector.
August's Focus: Collection Systems
The system of underground pipes and maintenance structures that convey wastewater to treatment are the first line of defense for public health. Whether they are sanitary sewers – carrying only was from households and commercial establishments – or combined sewers – carrying stormwater, too – these systems require careful design, construction, operation, and maintenance.
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Get the latest information on the key technologies to help you move from reactive to proactive operations and maintenance. WEF's new publication, Technologies for CMOM Activities in Wastewater Collection Systems, helps you find useful and cost-effective technologies and system optimizations to help you facilitate more preventive, and even predictive, operations and maintenance activities. Get your copy today!
The full collection of the papers presented at Collection Systems 2021: A Virtual Event, March 23-25, 2021.
The unprecedented global pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 disease prompted the Water Environment Federation (WEF) to conduct a critical review of pathways of potential exposure to this virus associated with the collection and treatment of wastewater. In April 2020, WEF convened a panel of academics and practitioners expert in the science and practice of wastewater collection and treatment to conduct this critical review.
Odor Emissions and Control for Collection Systems and Water Resource Recovery Facilities, MOP 25, provides a comprehensive look at all aspects of odor control in the water sector and is intended to be the primary reference for odor control standards for water resource recvery facilities and collection systems. Learn how to be a good neighbor and share clean air around your facility while providing indispensable wastewater services to your community.
This fact sheet provides young engineers, operation & maintenance staffs, utility managers, practitioners and educators the basics basics of lift station types, design basis, operation and maintenance, and data management.
Urban and suburban stormwater runoff is a growing source of water pollution in many watersheds across the country, contributing nutrients, bacteria and sediment. Further, the existing stormwater infrastructure is aging and underfunded. Stormwater runoff is currently addressed through protection and water quality improvement strategies developed by utilities, municipalities, state governments and the US EPA. However, the nation lacks a comprehensive uniform plan of action at the federal level to cohesively, economically and effectively mitigate stormwater runoff impacts to water quality. Further, funding for research and infrastructure is insufficient at all levels.
A case study on the lessons learned while developing a program to find, evaluate, prioritize and undertake rehabilitation projects that achieve a reduction of sanitary sewer overflows and increase hydraulic performance in a collection system.