GUIDES
Guides for Lagoons, Lift Stations and the People Who Run Them
These are the questions we get asked on site visits, answered the way we answer them in person: what is going on, how to measure it, what the options are, and where a biological program fits or does not. Each guide links to the page that explains what we would do about it. None of them asks you to take our word for anything.
Answer first. The program only if it fits.
How we write these
One real question per guide, answered in the first few sentences. Then the mechanism, the measurement, and the honest edges. Where a method is public knowledge we say so; where it is our own experience we say that too. We do not quote outcome numbers here. Those belong in the field results, with the dates, the method and the measurements behind them.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Straight answers.
Who are these guides for?+
Plant and collection system operators, public works directors, dairy and feedlot managers, and the board members who have to approve what those people recommend. If you read one and want to argue with it, write to us. That is the best kind of reader.
Do the guides replace a site review?+
No. They help you ask better questions and measure what you have. A review takes your own flow, volume and readings and turns them into a dose, a delivery point and a monthly program, or tells you the problem is not biological.
GUIDES
Answers first. Then the program, if it fits.
Does Hydrogen Sulfide Corrode Pumps, Pipes and Wet Wells? Yes. Here Is How.
How hydrogen sulfide gas becomes sulfuric acid on concrete and steel, what it eats, how to spot it early, and how the protection options compare.
Why Force Mains Make Hydrogen Sulfide, and What Stops It
How a force main builds hydrogen sulfide under pressure, where the gas actually releases, and how the control options compare.
Kennel Drain and Trough Odor: How Two Utah Animal Hospitals Keep Their Kennels Fresh
Why a kennel trough drain smells no matter how often it is scrubbed, and how two Utah animal hospitals clear the odor as part of their deep clean, with the animals out of the runs.
What Is a Fatberg, and How Does FOG Build Up in a Sewer?
What a fatberg is, how FOG builds up inside a sewer, and how the standard controls compare with an upstream oxygen program that digests grease along the way.
Why Wastewater Bacteria Need Oxygen: Anaerobic, Aerobic and Facultative Explained
The three bacteria types, the electron acceptor order from oxygen to nitrate, sulfate and carbon dioxide, and why a collection system going anaerobic makes gas, acid and grease that a treatment plant's own anoxic zones never do.