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Standing Tall in Workboots: An Operator's Life
Author(s) -
Elliott Melissa,
Chrisler Meg
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.2000.tb02244.x
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , operator (biology) , automation , raw water , filtration (mathematics) , water supply , water quality , environmental science , engineering , waste management , operations management , environmental engineering , mathematics , ecology , mechanical engineering , statistics , biochemistry , chemistry , repressor , biology , transcription factor , gene
This article chronicles the career of a female water plant operator and describes the new Lynn R. Morgan Water Facility in Erie, Colorado, which uses continuous membrane filtration. Other benefits of the new plant include: increased plant automation; backwash systems that eliminate byproduct waste handling at the site; flexibility to adapt to seasonal changes and the dissimilar water quality of a raw water supply originating from different reservoirs; and, a flexible plant design than can expand from 4 mgd to 16 mgd.