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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 3, No. 54, April 16, 2001
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1533-449X
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Would You Have a Trade Show Exhibit With No Salesmen In It?
> Vidler Water Company Agrees on Terms for Water Storage
> Aquafine Corporation Moves to State-of-the-Art Facility
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Ask Tom! Column
> Streaming Potential Monitor for Optimizing Polymer Dosage
> Water and Wastewater.Com had over 28,000+ visitors in March!
> Quantachrome® Introduces The Hydrosorb 1000
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES....
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Contributors Wanted!
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Press releases, show announcements and industry news wanted!
Do you have company news, a new product, new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
DEADLINE for the next issue is: April 21st.
We give full credit to contributing authors. Please send your
news article or press release via e-mail to:
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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Vidler Water Company Agrees on Terms for Water Storage
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LA JOLLA, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PICO Holdings
Inc. (NASDAQ: PICO) announced that its subsidiary Vidler Water
Company, Inc. has reached agreement with the Arizona Water
Banking Authority concerning the terms under which the Authority
can store water at the Vidler Arizona Recharge Facility.
Vidler is charging a water storage fee of $45.00 per acre-foot
of water recharged, or put into storage, during 2001. The fee
will be $46.50 per acre-foot for water recharged in 2002, and
$48.00 per acre-foot for water recharged in 2003. The agreement
concludes on December 31, 2003.
The ultimate revenues generated will depend on the quantity of
water which the Arizona Water Banking Authority stores at the
facility. The Arizona Water Banking Authority has not yet
indicated the quantity of water which it will store this year.
This will depend on a number of factors, including the
availability of water and available storage capacity at other
facilities. Vidler is also in discussions with others, both
public and private, to store water at the facility.
Vidler has the permitted right to recharge 100,000 acre-feet
of water each year at the Vidler Arizona Recharge Facility,
which is located in the Harquahala Valley, approximately 75
miles northwest of metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Construction
of the improvements required for full-scale recharge of water
was completed, for less than the originally budgeted cost, in
2000. The water will be stored underground in a large aquifer
underlying much of the Valley, and will be recovered, when
needed, by groundwater production wells. Vidler estimates that
more than 1 million acre-feet of water can be stored at
the facility.
John Hart, PICO's President and Chief Executive Officer,
commented: "Vidler's agreement with the Arizona Water Banking
Authority is an important milestone for the company. The Arizona
Water Banking Authority has the responsibility for intrastate
and interstate storage of water for public entities. As the
first agreement between a governmental authority and a private
underground water storage facility, all parties were navigating
in unfamiliar territory. To some extent this is a transitional
agreement, and was structured with as much latitude for all
parties as possible, to allow everyone to get comfortable with
the logistics of interstate storage in particular. We are
quite pleased with the result, and view this as an initial
step in an on-going cooperative process to facilitate more
efficient distribution of the Southwest's most precious
asset--water."
Dorothy Timian-Palmer, Vidler's Chief Operating Officer, added:
"At present, there is a limited volume of water available for
storage in the Colorado River system due to below average
winter precipitation, and the spring run-off period which
generates surplus flows has almost passed. Despite this, we
expect to store up to 20,000 acre-feet of water this year for
intrastate users -- in other words, the State of Arizona as
well as other private entities. We anticipate higher usage
next year, once potential interstate users have concluded
their agreements with the State of Arizona and federal
agencies. Ultimately, we expect to fully utilize the facility
as recently projected storage requirements for Nevada and
California alone exceed all available storage."
Vidler, a 96.2%-owned subsidiary of PICO, is a leading private
participant in the water rights and water storage business
in the southwestern United States. Vidler owns, or has
the right to acquire, more than 61,000 acre-feet of
permitted, transferable water rights in Arizona and
Nevada, and more than 1.1 million acre-feet of water
storage capacity in Arizona and California.
SOURCE PICO Holdings, Inc.
Web Site: http://www.picoholdings.com
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Aquafine Corporation Moves to State-of-the-Art Facility
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VALENCIA, Calif., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Aquafine Corporation
has announced its expansion into a new, custom-built
headquarters -- the single largest manufacturing facility for
industrial UV products in the world. Located at 20910 Avenue
Paine in Valencia, the new facility will give the company
110,000-square ft. of office and factory space.
"An integral part of our new facility is dedicated to research
and development platforms, including enhanced UV lamp and power
testing areas," says Michael Murphy, president of Aquafine
Corporation. "We've made a major investment in quality control
with the installation of a recirculating water system with
chiller. It allows us to simulate hours of actual operating
conditions on any new UV skid system before it is shipped,
insuring the uninterrupted performance of the system."
The new factory floor plan incorporates high performance
manufacturing cells, which reduce lead times and increase
efficiency. State-of-the art training rooms with video
conferencing have been incorporated to meet the product support
needs of our diverse customer base as well as our global
network of distributors and OEMs.
Aquafine Corporation is a leading manufacturer of ultraviolet
water treatment equipment for pure and ultrapure applications.
Aquafine meets the most stringent specifications in a variety
of industries ranging from semiconductor to bio-pharmaceutical,
food and beverage to power generation.
For more information, contact:
Aquafine
20910 Avenue Paine
Valencia, CA, 91355
Telephone (661) 257-4770 or 800/423-3015
Fax (661) 257-2489
Web site http://www.aquafineuv.com/
mailto:sales@aquafineuv.com
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Standard Methods for Examination of Water &
Wastewater"
by Lenore S. Clesceri, et al
Hardcover, 1325 pages, 20th edition, January 1999
"Biological Wastewater
Treatment" (Environmental Science & Pollution)
by C. P. Leslie Grady(Editor), Glen T. Daigger
Hardcover, Vol 19, October 1998
"Civil Engineering Water Treatment & Distribution and Wastewater
Treatment: Review for the Breath/Depth Exam in Civil Engineering"
by Kenneth J. Williamson
Paperback, June 1999
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/readingroom.htm
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Ask Tom Column!
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THIS MONTH'S ARTICLE
"Considerations for Control Systems Part 2: Flow Measurement"
by Dan Capano, DTS, Inc.
You can read Dan's article at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/asktom.htm
PAST Ask Tom! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
-- WE NEED YOUR GUEST ARTICLES --
Do you have an area of expertise in water treatment, have you
solved a difficult wastewater problem? You too, can be an Ask Tom! guest author!
Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself (the
old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article
to the Ask Tom! Column.
For more information, please contact Tom Keenan at:
info@nesa.ie
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Streaming Potential Monitor for Optimizing Polymer Dosage
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GLI International, Inc. (Milwaukee, WI) - GLI announces the
AccuStream Streaming Potential Monitoring System. AccuStream
continuously measures electrical charge intensity, which
indicates coagulant dosage in the treatment process. Use of
this analytical device ensures optimum chemical dosage, which
improves water treatment performance while reducing coagulant
consumption and overall treatment costs.
The non-fouling sensor design produces the streaming potential
signal. With water sample continuously passing through the
sensor, process changes can be detected instantly. Optimal
sensor design buffers the sample maintaining a stable signal,
even with variations in flow rate. The AccuStream is able to
perform sensitive measurements over long periods of time with
very little maintenance.
AccuStream features GLI's easy to use model SP53 analyzer.
It joins the GLI drinking water instrumentation family which
includes the Accu4 Turbidimeter, AccuCount+ Particle Counter,
AccuZone Ozone Monitor and the AccuChlor Chlorine Monitor.
Contact Information:
Tim Schilz
Manager of Marketing
GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
P. O. Box 245022
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Phone: 414-355-3601
Fax: 414-355-8346
Toll Free: 800-GLI-0263
web site: http://www.gliint.com/
mailto:info@gliint.com
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Quantachrome® Introduces The Hydrosorb 1000
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Boynton Beach, March 1, 2001 - Water sorption measurement has
traditionally been slow, laborious, costly and limited to
extremely small quantities of material.
The latest innovation in porous materials characterization,
the Hydrosorb 1000, overcomes these limitations. It offers
fully automated, rapid measurement of adsorption and
desorption water isotherms including BET surface area
calculations. Sample temperature is thermostatted in the
range 12-47 degC and accurate water vapor dosing is made
possible by using a heated (100degC), unique manifold design.
The fully integrated control system provides color real-time
status, graphical data review and reporting functions via
built-in color monitor and printer port. Data (ASCII format)
can be uploaded to a PC via RS232 for importing into popular
spreadsheet programs for further manipulation.
More information can be found through our web site at:
Mr. Robert Swinson
Quantachrome Instruments
Telephone: 561.731.4999
Fax: 561 732-9888
Web site: http://www.quantachrome.com/
mailto:qc.sales@quantachrome.com
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Vreysen needs help with removal of elemental sulfur:
A waste water (sulfide conc. = 30 mg/l) is treated by
coagulation, DAF, microfiltration and RO. After the DAF,
elemental sulfur particles are formed due to the oxidation
of sulfide. These particles cause membrane fouling in the RO.
Can anybody tell me what's the best solution for this problem.
Steven Vreysen
mailto: steven.vreysen@agr.kuleuven.ac.be
Johnathan needs help with an aerated lagoon:
I have a problem with a aerated lagoon. I work for an abbittor
in NSW and I have very little experience in anaerobic and
aerated lagoons. The plant users around 1.5 million litres/day
The waste water is screened and put through a DAF system.
Then the water is pumped too a Anaerobic lagoon with a HRT of
8 days. The aerated lagoon has a white fatty type of covering
away from the surface aeraters. It seems to be build up over
the last few weeks.
Could someone please give me an explanation of what is
causing the problem and how to fix it.
Thank you,
Jonathan
mailto:jonathan@southernmeats.com.au
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of a PCI-Memtech custom-designed and
built membrane filtration system for the pharmaceutical
industry, primarily for the separation/filtration of bulk
pharmaceuticals including antibiotics and other target
molecules.
Photo courtesy of Ms. Gale Rudd
PCI-Memtech, mailto:marketing@pcimem.com
We would love to have your photo of a water treatment process,
new plant or equipment "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo with a
description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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From the Job Fair
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PRODUCT MANAGER; DRINKING WATER INSTRUMENTATION
SUMMARY OF DUTIES:
The Marketing Group at GLI International is currently looking
for a Product Manager responsible for all aspects of product
marketing related to the GLI line of drinking water products
(turbidity, residual chlorine and ozone, particle counting,
streaming potential and other analytical instrumentation used
in drinking water treatment plants).
These responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the
definition and development, pricing and promotion, as well as
support of the sales effort for these products. Contributing
to the strategic business plan and actively monitoring and
tracking technical, regulatory and market trends in current
and developing market segments are other responsibilities of
the position.
The ideal candidate will work with marketing team to design
and coordinate development of product promotional literature
sales tools, and training materials for both sales activities
and customer end use.
This Product Manager is the key interface person with Inside
Sales, Technical Support, Field Sales and Engineering for
this group of products. The position is based in-house with
some field travel required to foster contacts with customers,
sales representatives, trade associations and publications,
and competitors to understand technology and market needs.
REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications include a two or four year technical or science
degree, or equivalent industry background with previous
experience in the instrumentation or related marketplace.
Ideal candidate must possess good technical writing and
presentation skills. Must also be comfortable with personal
computers, business software and e-mail communications. Salary
will be based upon qualifications and pertinent experience.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Send resume and salary requirements to:
Tim Schilz
Manager of Marketing
GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Phone: 414-362-6525
Fax: 414-355-8346
Web site; http://www.gliint.com/
mailto:tims@gliint.com
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