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To me it's surprising how many people have no idea where their drinking water

comes from or where it goes after they flush the toilet.

When I open up a faucet I taste & smell the water to make sure that it's up the standards.

Yeah, I'd monitor that.

Hill Engineering was formed in 1898,

it's one of the oldest engineering firms in the country.

It was acquired by GPI in 2016.

Hill Engineering pretty much does the same thing that we're doing for GPI

today we do water & wastewater treatment plants they've built a number

of facilities throughout western Pennsylvania & western New York.

This was the original treatment plant built in 1903 it was pretty much a glorified

septic tank called an Imhoff tank so it treated all the wastewater in the town

it was just one large tank and in the last hundred years we've gone from this, to all this.

Wastewater is collected in sanitary sewer pipes conveyed to a

central location where the wastewater treatment plant is one basic type of

treatment process is what we call activated sludge which is what we have here at Northeast.

We're at the Northeast Pennsylvania site one wastewater

treatment plant we're at the head end of the plant so when you flush the toilet

it comes into this tank this is the first part of the process when we look

at wastewater capacity we look at flow and organic loading it treats 30,000

pounds per day of B.O.D. which is an equivalent service population of about a 125,000.

We have aeration tanks where we add air to

break down the the organic waste through bacteria that we grow in those tanks.

The next step is here at the wastewater aerated lagoon we have about four

million gallons of wastewater under aeration in these aeration tanks we grow

bacteria that break down the wastewater and remove the organics.

We settle out that bacteria and clarifiers the water is pumped into this clarifier

tank this is about a hundred foot diameter tank and we settle out the

wastewater solids we take the settled sludge and send it to a digester to break it down further.

We pump those solids to anaerobic

digestor where with the aeration further breaks down the solids prior to dewatering

there's about 700 thousand gallons of solids under aeration in these two tanks.

Then that digested sludge is then dewatered and the solids are

typically sent to a landfill or maybe land applied this is our sludge

dewatering building the solids from the aerobic digester are pumped to here and

we dewater those solids into a cake that goes to the landfill.

We have a centrifuge and a belt press in this building that dewater the solids we send

a 28 ton tri-axial full of dewatered sludge to the landfill about every three hours.

GPI is up to speed with all the latest treatment technology including

meeting tertiary standards familiar with all the state and federal regulations

pertaining to water and wastewater.

For more infomation >> GPI - Water/Wastewater Engineering Services Part 1 - Duration: 3:30.

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Discover Texas Tech: Student Disability Services - Duration: 3:45.

>> Allison Hirth, Reporting: "WE'RE HERE TO HELP." IT'S A PHRASE HEARD

OFTEN AT TEXAS TECH'S STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES.

THE DEPARTMENT, COMPLYING WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, PROVIDES

ACCOMMODATIONS TO STUDENTS DIAGNOSED WITH A DISABILITY.

>> Blayne Alaniz, Assistant Director: A disability is anything that impairs normal functioning.

And so, we work with learning disabilities-- dyslexia, ADD, ADHD,

along with physical disabilities, such as wheelchair bound students, hearing

impaired students, blind students, (and) psychological disabilities-- depression, anxiety.

>> Allison Hirth: BLAYNE ALANIZ IS AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. HE SAYS ABOUT 2,500

STUDENTS USE SDS' SERVICES EVERY SEMESTER. (THAT'S) 2,500

STUDENTS WHOSE NAMES ARE KEPT SECRET.

>> Blayne Alaniz: We're 100% confidential. It does not show up on your transcripts.

Your professor will never know what the diagnosis is-- they will just know they're registered

with Student Disability Services. >> Allison Hirth: THE ACCOMMODATIONS SDS PROVIDES ARE

SPECIFIC TO EACH STUDENT. >> Blayne Alaniz: That's what makes it unique and

that's what makes it effective is that we don't just give, you know, all students

one thing. >> Allison Hirth: THE MOST COMMON ONES INCLUDE EXTRA TIME

ON TESTS, TAKING THEM AT THE TESTING CENTER, NOTE TAKING SERVICES AND

PREFERENTIAL SEATING IN CLASS. ALL OF THEM ARE PUT IN PLACE TO

ENSURE STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AREN'T DISCRIMINATED AGAINST. >> Blayne Alaniz: Accommodations

do that. They equal the playing field. >> Brandi Schreiber, Program Director of the TECHniques Center: We are

a specialized peer tutoring program of Student Disability Services. >> Allison Hirth: FOR NEARLY

20 YEARS, THE TECHNIQUES CENTER HAS SERVED A SUBSET OF THE SDS POPULATION.

>> Brandi Schreiber: We provide one-on-one specialized tutoring to students who have

a diagnosis of a learning disability, ADD or ADHD, and/or autism spectrum

disorders. >> Allison Hirth: BRANDI SCHREIBER, WHO'S THE PROGRAM'S DIRECTOR, SAYS 175

STUDENTS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CENTER EVERY SEMESTER. >> Brandi Schreiber: Almost every

semester, we have a student in every College on campus in our program. >> Allison Hirth: AND THOSE

STUDENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL. >> Brandi Schreiber: Our biggest bragging rights are

really our retention statistics because of the students that successfully complete

the program with us each semester, between 97% to 99% of them are

retained to the university the following semester.

>> Allison Hirth: THE CENTER EMPLOYS UP TO 85 TUTORS AT A TIME. ALL OF THEM ARE

CURRENT STUDENTS WITH AT LEAST 40 CREDIT HOURS, A 3.0 GPA AND HAVE DONE

WELL IN THE SUBJET THEY'RE HELPING WITH. >> Brandi Schreiber: We are a little competitive in

our application process because our program is certified through the College Reading

and Learning Association, which means we do a lot of in depth training for our tutors to provide

a certain quality of tutoring. >> Allison Hirth: BUT IT'S MORE THAN TUTORING OFFERED AT THE TECHNIQUES CENTER.

>> Brandi Schreiber: You've got an academic counselor who can kind of walk you through

the big picture issues of being a student, but then you have peer tutors who

help you understand what it's like out there-- once you're in the classroom and actually

having to learn the material and take the exams and that kind of thing.

>> Allison Hirth: THE GOAL, (BOTH) SCHREIBER AND ALANIZ AGREE, IS TO BEST SERVE ALL STUDENTS-- HELPING

THEM FIND SUCCESS BOTH INSIDE THE CLASSROOM AND IN LIFE.

>> Blayne Alaniz: We're here to help any student no matter what your

situation is. Even if you don't know that you have a disability, you haven't been

diagnosed, but you think you might, come in and talk to us.

For more infomation >> Discover Texas Tech: Student Disability Services - Duration: 3:45.

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2018: A Busy Year for the Launch Services Program - Duration: 0:54.

"America's most advanced weather eye in the sky."

"Where did we come from?

The search for life in the universe."

"We're going to launch - for the first time - on an interplanetry mission from the west coast."

"Pegasus is away."

"We've got three and half weeks, we need to hit that precisely to get to the Sun."

"Delta II is now flying out."

"6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..."