- Civil Engineering Department at Virginia Tech.- Updated every semester
The Primer contains a wide variety of photos, drawings, video, animations,
and sound clips.
Sections on Coagulation, Flocculation, Sedimentation, Filtration, Disinfection,
Sludge handling and disposal.
Some sections incomplete.
- Civil Engineering Department at Virginia Tech.- Updated every semester
The Primer contains a wide variety of photos, drawings, video, animations,
and sound clips.
Very good sections on Sources of Pollution, Dispersion, Remediation, RCRA-CERCLA
& SDWA.
Some sections incomplete.
-United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
This page contains a glossary of the various terms mainly concerned with
environmental protection. The explanation is short and is often restricted
to a couple of sentences.
-Scottsdale Arizona Water Treatment Plant
This page has a nice figure accompanied with brief explanations, which shows
you the various steps in a water treatment plant. (Printing the page is
recommended)
-Collier County, Florida
This website walks you through the different treatment processes used in
their plant for producing potable water. Easy to navigate.
-Ames, Iowa
This website has a nice virtual tour of their water treatment plant. Again,
this site is easy to navigate and has pictures of different processes with
short descriptions having focus on functions of the processes.
-Littleton/Englewood WWTP
This website has an excellent cyber tour of WWTP. Clickable image map of
the plant, good schematics and excellent descriptions are some of the features
of this site. This site is highly recommended.
This page has a short tour of a wastewater treatment plant which walks you
through all the steps beginning from collection of wastewater. This aspect
is not covered in the previous tour.