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Any water or Wastewater guys here?

Discussion in 'Jobs & Careers' started by jerretxx, Nov 17, 2013.

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  1. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:13 PM
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    Just curious to know if there are any Water or wastewater treatment guys on the site. Figured it'd be neat to have other people to talk to about pumps, problems, or just post neat pictures. I know i'm not the only one on here!
     
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  2. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:24 PM
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    jerretxx [OP] Some do, others talk

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    On one of the water reservoirs at work!
     
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  3. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:26 PM
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    Yeah, I dabble.

    What kind of problems you having?
     
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  4. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:27 PM
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    If you had a pic, I can't see it.
     
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  5. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:27 PM
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    No problems at all, just curious if anyone is in the same field of work as I am.
     
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  6. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:30 PM
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    I wear many hats.

    Operate hi pressure steam boilers, operate and maintain 8, 250hp air compressors, operate and maintain the sanitary sewer system, operate the solid waste/recycling program, jeezus, I never wrote down what I got my hands into before, and there is still alot of shit that I deal with.

    KO
     
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  7. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM
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    nothing wrong with the experience! I work for a company that has a wastewater treatment plant, city water plant, 300 miles of sewer lines, and owns and operates 2 water reservoirs so I know what you mean. Probably the neatest part of our plant is the dewatering process for our furnace to burn off the waste!
     
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  8. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:40 PM
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    Possibly will be working with water or waste water after I graduate in 7 months
     
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  9. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:40 PM
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    I'm an instrumentation guy, but WW falls under my responsibilities. Along with ultra pure water, pure steam, chilled water and glycol, air handling units, and damn near everthing else now that I think about it.:rolleyes:
     
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  10. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM
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    What are you going to school for?
     
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    Familiar with Scada?
     
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  12. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:43 PM
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  13. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:45 PM
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    Worked in wastewater residuals management for about 6 years. I've moved on, but it was fascinating work.
     
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  14. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:46 PM
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    Good deal, thats a great field to be in. I am currently in Mechanical Maintenance, but I get to help instrumentation guys from time to time. I hoping once I finish my business degree I can take a few classes to be more familiar with it. There are 1000 different things you can do in water and wastewater
     
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  15. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:47 PM
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    A lot of science goes into it, I was shocked when I was hired into the field.
     
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  16. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM
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    Heard of it. Never used it. All of our controls are Seimens or DeltaV.
     
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  17. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:50 PM
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    Yeah we have several things from Seimens, and several drives from Benshaw for our large pumps. Scada is a program we use to keep track of all out pumps, levels, and everything else that needs to be monitored. Its allows us to control everything remotely.
     
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  18. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:51 PM
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    Oh that's cool man, its pretty interesting stuff once you get the principals behind everything. Definitely a sweet field I did a tour at my local wastewater facility when I first started looking into this field and it looked like a sweet gig for sure!
     
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  19. Nov 17, 2013 at 5:52 PM
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    Is it a program like on a PLC?
     
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    It def is. besides the fact that its a steady job, youll learn more things that you can apply to everyday life then youll ever know
     
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