Water Treatment Plant Clearwell CCTV – ROV Video Inspection Survey and Sediment Removal January 2025 In January of 2025, PW MAKAR Coatings Inspection Ltd., completed a Close Circuit Television (CCTV) Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Video Inspection and Sediment Removal of a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) Clearwell in a Remote Northern First Nations Settlement in Northern […]
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Effluent ponds are a crucial component in waste management for industries like petrochemical, oil and gas refineries, mining, pulp and paper, agriculture, hydroelectric power generation and wastewater treatment and often these effluent ponds go unnoticed in discussions about technological innovation. Yet, beneath their seemingly placid surfaces lies a complex world of sediment and sludge
The following article was originally published in the May/June 2014 issue of Environmental Science and Engineering Magazine. Technicians, technologists, environmental specialists and engineers in small boats have poked and prodded primary and secondary wastewater effluent ponds, cells and lagoons for years to obtain approximate depths to the sediment surface at discrete positions. Acoustic sonar sediment
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The following article was originally published in the October 2017 issue of Environmental Science and Engineering Magazine. Oxidizing and neutralizing chemicals, as well as misty, wet and damp conditions, contribute to an aggressive corrosive environment in water treatment plants. In wastewater treatment plants, there is also a corrosive cocktail of bacterial decomposition of fecal and
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