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Western Lake Superior Sanitary District – Duluth, Minnesota

In 1995, the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) installed two (2) Vulcan Industries Mensch reciprocating rake (climber) bar screens at its wastewater treatment facility located in Duluth, Minnesota.  The screens were installed in 8’ wide channels with 3/4-inch bar spacing.  Twenty years later, the District began taking steps to tighten the bar spacing to […]

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Omaha, NE Pump Station

Finding the “Right” Screen for Your Application The Bridge Street Pump Station in Omaha, NE was built in the 1940’s and never had a mechanical bar screen.  Manual bar racks for the subdivision pump station have to be cleaned a couple times a week during normal dry weather flows and every day when a storm […]

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Stair Screens

Vulcan Stair Screens – Fine Screening Without the Headaches By Vulcan Industries, Inc. So you’ve chosen a stair screen for your fine screening application at your wastewater treatment plant.  Excellent choice!  Capture ratios up to 80% without the need of brushes, purge water, additional motors, etc. were all factors that weighed into the decision. Now […]

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Longmont, CO – Stair Screens

EXPERIENCE “TIMES 3” AT LONGMONT, CO By Vulcan “We spend less time at the headworks building now then we used to,” says City of Longmont Treatment Operations Supervisor Karl Heil.  Installed around the year 2000, the City had operated perforated band type screens and experienced their typical shortcomings.  Maintaining the brushes and keeping the perforations […]

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Employee Profile – Doug Mether

Like many folks who work at Vulcan today, Doug Mether grew up a farm kid outside of Magnoia, IA.  Back then, most of these kids developed their work ethic, mechanical, and electrical aptitude by following their dad around the farm learning skills that would benefit them later in life.   There are several of these guys […]

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Rep Profile:  Jeremy Neill of Coombs-Hopkins Company By:  Vulcan Jeremy Neill’s story started years ago as his father, George, owned a small wastewater consulting firm in Houston, TX.  As a result of this upbringing, Civil Engineering was always in his blood.  In fact, Rick Eismin from Coombs Hopkins (CH) can even remember a young Jeremy […]

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