What does POTW stand for?

Publicly Owned Treatment Works

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Military and Government
Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Nitrogen and phosphorus reduction and removal is a process that many current Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) have not had to address.

Pennsylvania nutrient trading

The state water code allows a publicly owned treatment works serving a small community with a financial hardship to complete a compliance project instead of paying the penalties.

United States: Colusa wastewater treatment plants draw fines

Others, though perhaps citing specific projects, focus on such techniques and applications as risk management for publicly owned treatment works, and using a semi-permeable membrane device for tracking sources of toxicity.

Toxicity reduction and toxicity identification evaluations for ...

Indirect dischargers While we have spoken primarily about direct dischargers, the impacts of these trends on indirect dischargers - those who discharge to a Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs) - could be even more immediate and severe.

Planning for the cost of clean water

Facilities discharging to publicly owned treatment works, or existing indirect discharges, were required to comply with pretreatment standards for existing sources (PSES) by Oct 31, 1988.

Eighties environmental legislation impacts metalcasting industry

Envirogen membrane bioreactor applications today include batch chemical plant effluents, landfill leachate, chlorinated solvents in manufacturing wastewaters, publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) with space restrictions, phosphorous control, and wastewater from pharmaceutical intermediate manufacture and the food and beverage industries.

Basin Water Launches Envirogen(R) Line of Environmental Treatment ...

The jury found that Allegheny Ludlum did not interfere in any way with the Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority publicly owned treatment works (POTW).

Jury Finds Unanimously in Favor of Allegheny Ludlum in Clean Water ...

doing business as A-1 Sanitation & Pumping Service ("A-1 Sanitation"), was sentenced Monday to pay a fine of $30,000 and to a period of three years probation for its criminal violation of the Clean Water Act relating to the discharge of solvent contaminated waste into the publicly owned treatment works in Wareham.

Septage Hauler Sentenced to Pay a $30,000 Fine for Illegally ...