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pathogen removal
August 25, 2020 3 min read

Cost-Effective Lagoon Phosphorus Removal: Triplepoint’s PhosBox

Nutrient removal is one of the most pressing challenges facing lagoon operators. State EPAs, in the interest of protecting waterways, have been enacting increasingly stringent effluent requirements for ammonia, nitrogen, and phosphorus. (A previous blog, Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus: The Crackdown Is Coming, covers this subject in detail.) Triplepoint’s NitrOx® Process is a proven solution for ammonia […]

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Lake Erie Watershed C
May 23, 2017 4 min read

Lagoon Phosphorus 101: A video overview of the why and how of lagoon phosphorus removal

Nutrient removal is one of the most pressing challenges facing lagoon operators. In this episode of Lagoons Do It Better TV, lagoon specialists Patrick Hill and Tom Daugherty discuss why lagoon phosphorus is being regulated and the methods available to meet increasingly stringent phosphorus effluent limits. Lagoon Phosphorus 101: Where Does Phosphorus Come From? Like nitrogen, […]

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Eutrophication
November 18, 2015 5 min read

Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus Removal Methods

In Part 1 on this two-part article on wastewater lagoon phosphorus, Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus: The Crackdown Is Coming, we outlined its sources and the reasons regulating bodies are beginning to add phosphorus effluent limits to permits. Part 2 will present an overview of methods of phosphorus removal from wastewater lagoons. Pathways of Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus Removal […]

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Suds
October 29, 2015 4 min read

Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus: The Crackdown Is Coming

In previous blog posts, we’ve discussed lagoon ammonia, including its sources and how to treat it. In this two-part article, we’ll begin to tackle the other half of the nutrients puzzle: wastewater lagoon phosphorus.  Part 1 will cover the sources of lagoon phosphorus and the problems environmental phosphorus can cause. The upcoming Part 2 will […]

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