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Croswell, Michigan System Installation & Start Up Photos

Where: Croswell, Michigan (about 90 minutes north of Detroit) What: A 0.5 MGD design/ 1.3 MGD peak MBBR Retrofit of a 40 year old municipal plant How: Two trains of three-stage MBBRs featuring 60 HP blowers & 240 of m3 AC500 Media Why: Older, failing equipment; needed to upgrade plant in order to nitrify in…

AquaPoint Quarterly Update

First off, I have to apologize – it’s been forever since I posted here and updated the wastewater world on all things AquaPoint. The good news is I have a decent excuse! We’ve been extremely busy summer and the first part of fall, I feel like I’ve barely had a chance to catch my breath.…

Reducing Wastewater Management Costs by Revising the Governing Systems

The below article was written by our founder, Craig Lindell. In 2001, G Tracy Mehan, then the Assistant EPA Director for the Office of Water, addressed the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee. His presentation, “Building on Success – Going Beyond Regulation” outlined reasons for what he called a “change in paradigm.” He emphasized: “Point source controls…

What Do Advanced Wastewater Treatment & the Holidays Have in Common?

Not much, if I’m honest. That said, we wanted to take the opportunity in this space to wish you the happiest and healthiest of holiday seasons! And also share some new video content…Can that be considered a present? A stocking stuffer at the very least? We will let you decide. The first video is a…

The EPA & Water Reuse

Back in September, the EPA released an action plan for water reuse. The basic long-term goal is to make “wastewater” a thing of the past. We had planned on blogging about this ourselves, but recently Tracy Mehan wrote an outstanding piece on the subject. Instead of rehashing his ideas we thought we would just provide…

Communities and Their Wastewater Management From Predicament to Prospects

Note: This was our first blog post on the new website a year ago. For a few different reasons, mainly its importance, we wanted to repost it on the first anniversary. We are at the end of an infrastructure cycle and the beginning of a new policy era. Wastewater is no longer a pollutant; it…

Video Vignettes to Help Tell the AquaPoint Story

Last month we posted our new & improved YouTube Channel. While the below videos are all on YouTube, we wanted to share them here as well. We feel that they help capture what we are truly about here at AquaPoint. In the first, titled “The AquaPoint Difference,” we explain what sets us apart from our…

Lawson’s Finest Liquids & AquaPoint

A few years back one of the Vermont’s most popular breweries decided to expand with a taproom and large brewing facility. The story of Sean Lawson and his growth in the beer industry is quite well known. What is largely unknown to most is some of the challenges they faced relating to the wastewater the…

Introducing AquaPoint’s YouTube Channel

Just wanted to share a couple of important links with you now that we are all set up on YouTube! First – click here to head to our channel – We currently have three videos up but should have a few more up by the beginning of next month. Please subscribe as we plan to…

Luxurious Connecticut Apartments & Wastewater

A few years back, developers were in need of a wastewater treatment solution for their state-of-the-art apartments in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The developers of Post & Main Apartments, 186 1 & 2 bedroom garden style apartments spread over 10 acres on the Connecticut Shoreline, went above and beyond to give each apartment a luxurious feel…