Leading Practices and Key Performance Indicators for Asset Maintenance
As part of the WERF Strategic Asset Management (SAM) benchmarking activity, the research team identified three areas of competency of best management practices related to...
Green Energy Life Cycle Assessment Tool (GELCAT) User Manual and Software
Green energy or renewable energy technologies are potentially attractive solutions for meeting the energy needs of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Evaluating the effectiveness or suitability...
Transforming Our Cities: High-Performance Green Infrastructure
Traditional approaches to stormwater management include construction of large, centralized end-of-pipe or interceptor solutions that can be extraordinarily expensive. The goal of this research is...
WateriD User Manual
Agencies are investing enormous resources into asset management programs for their water and wastewater piping systems, including comprehensive asset condition assessments and predictive...
Water Communication
Water Communication aims at setting a first general outlook at what communication on water means, who communicates and on what topics. Through different examples...
Optimization of Wastewater Lift Stations for Reduction of Energy Usage and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
One of the largest contributions of GHG emissions from wastewater treatment facilities results from the energy used by the pumping regime of the lift stations. This...
Sewer Lateral Electro Scan Field Verification Pilot
This research effort evaluated an innovative sewer lateral condition assessment tool in unique testing conditions, providing an opportunity for comparison to other traditional assessment...
Flare Efficiency Estimator and Case Studies
A flare efficiency estimator (FEE) tool is part of Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) project U2R08 entitled Methane Evolution from Wastewater Treatment and Conveyance under WERF’s...
Preparing Urban Water Use Efficiency Plans
Many communities are facing water scarcity in developing and developed countries alike. There are numerous publications and on-going research studies documenting the changes in our climate and...
Methane Evolution from Lagoons and Ponds
These case studies focus on the CH4 emissions from wastewater treatment in photosynthetic oxidation ponds and facultative sludge lagoons. These area-intensive processes are for cryophilic-to-...