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"Innovations in Water
Quality", Washington Briefing
Maryland Governor Parris Glendening
to Deliver Keynote Address
(Alexandria, Va.) The Water
Environment Federation's (WEF) Washington Briefing 2002,
"Innovations in Water Quality," will be held April 16,
2002, 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., at the Hotel Washington, 515 15th
Street, Washington, D.C., and will feature Maryland Governor Parris
Glendening as a luncheon keynote speaker.
Cosponsored
by the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, the briefing will focus on the latest
innovative regulatory and legislative initiatives affecting
wastewater management. WEF President Jim Clark and Executive
Director William Bertera will open the program. "The very
nature of the watershed management approach our nation is taking to
deal with nonpoint source pollution calls for some untraditional,
innovative policy. It is vital for anyone who works to improve the
quality of our water supply to have the latest regulatory
information straight from federal, state, and local
policymakers," said Clark. "The Federation's Washington
Briefing is an ideal forum to have a creative dialogue with these
leaders."
Ben Grumbles, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) deputy assistant administrator for water,
has been invited to kick-off the morning with an overview of
non-traditional regulatory projects that encourage a partnership
among government and the regulated community.
Next, a panel on environmental
management systems (EMS) will examine the federal, state, and local
role in addressing water quality challenges through voluntary,
incentive-based environmental compliance measures. The panel will
include Hank Habicht, of the Global Environment and Technology
Foundation and Gordon Garner of Louisville & Jefferson
Metropolitan Sewer District.
A panel of EPA office directors will
then provide an overview of the latest regulatory challenges facing
the Agency and what steps it will take to address the challenges in
the future. Mike Cook, (Office of Wastewater Management), Geoffrey
Grubbs (Office of Science and Technology), Robert Wayland (Office of
Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds), and Kate Anderson (Office of
Regulatory Enforcement, Water Division) comprise this panel.
After the luncheon address by
Governor Glendening, Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT), chair of the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has been invited to
address the issue of smart growth and the ramifications for water
quality as well as a federal overview of environmental legislation
in the 107th Congress.
The third panel of the day,
"Setting Legislative Priorities: Water Infrastructure Funding
in the 107th Congress," will feature staff members from the
House and Senate environment committees. This will be juxtaposed
with a final panel of staff from Capitol Hill, EPA, and the not for
profit community discussing "Innovative Financing for Water
Security and Asset Management.
For a full program and registration
information call WEF's Lisa Scott at 1(703) 684-2400 ext. 7741 or
e-mail lscott@wef.org. The
program is also available online.
$90M
in Money Appropriated
EPA
Chief Details Money Made Available for Water Security
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Christie Whitman today addressed the Association of
Metropolitan Water Agencies where she emphasized EPA's commitment to
assist local utilities in safeguarding the nation's water systems.
Whitman detailed a nearly $90 million national effort that EPA,
working with many partners, is undertaking to make drinking water
and wastewater utilities as safe as possible as quickly as possible.
Whitman also discussed clean water issues facing the nation such as
non-point source pollution and watershed protection.
"Since
September 11, we have moved quickly to help secure America's
drinking and wastewater systems against terrorists attacks,"
Whitman told attendees at the annual conference. "And you have
been right there alongside us. This work, as well as efforts
underway with partners around the country, is critically important
to protecting our water supplies and systems effectively and
intelligently."
The largest drinking water systems,
those regularly serving over 100,000 people, will be eligible to
apply for grants to support completion of vulnerability assessments
and other security planning. Since September 11, water systems
across the county have been on heightened alert and increased
security measures. These vulnerability assessments will help systems
undertake a more in-depth, comprehensive analysis. As a result, they
will identify their potential vulnerabilities and security upgrades.
Collectively, these large systems provide service to nearly half of
Americans served by public water systems.
EPA will work cooperatively with
states, tribes and appropriate organizations to further develop and
disseminate tools and support security efforts at small and medium
drinking water and wastewater systems. The nearly $90 million was
appropriated by Congress in an FY 2002 supplemental.
Requests for applications for the
grants will be distributed in the upcoming weeks. For more
information, see http://www.epa.gov/
"For practicing and
student engineers, mechanics, operators, and plant managers,
relates the fundamental principles of the operation of kinetic
and positive displacement pumps.."
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For
Tough Applications
Grinder Features a Built-In Tramp
Trap
The Taskmaster Model TT grinds tough
waste solids while catching tramp materials in its specially
designed trap. The Taskmaster TT is specifically designed for such
tough applications as septage receiving, lagoon pumps, sludge,
liquid waste processing, mine water pumping and other installations
that include an uncontrolled feed of rocks, gravel, metal, bricks
and other un-shreddable solids.
The inline Taskmaster TT features a
built-in oversized two stage tramp trap designed to let heavy tramp
solids drop out before reaching the grinder cutters. This unit’s
grinding unit has a convenient “drop-in” design that facilitates
easy removal of the grinder unit from it’s pipe housing for
maintenance. A valve is provided for quick access and removal of the
collected tramp material. The unit’s inlet and outlet flanges are
inline for easy installation and retrofitting into existing
pipelines.
The Taskmaster employs two
counter-rotating banks of high shear intermeshing cutters that
intensively grind and shred solids to a fine size easily handled by
pumps and other downstream equipment. Unlike any other grinder, the
Taskmaster is built with cutter cartridge technology. With this
exclusive design, each six cutter and six spacer disks found on
typical grinders is replaced by a rugged one-piece cartridge
element. This cuts individual cutter parts by a factor of 12:1. The
result is a stronger, easier to maintain grinder design.
Additionally, the burdensome requirement of regular stack
re-tightening, required on competing models, is eliminated
altogether.
For more information contact:
Mr. Bill Galanty Franklin Miller Inc.
60 Okner Pkwy.
Livingston, NJ 07039
Telephone: 800-932-0599 or 973-535-9200
Fax 973-535-6269
Email: info@franklinmiller.com
Web site: http://www.franklinmiller.com/
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Eliminates
the Need to Cut Keyways
New TorqLOC - Hollow Shaft Mounting
System
LYMAN, SC—SEW-Eurodrive introduces
TorqLOC, the compact hollow shaft mounting system that adds
versatility to SEW 7-Series hollow shaft reducers. SEW's answer to
keyless hollow shaft mounting, the TorqLOC system offers
interchangeable bushings for mounting SEW hollow shaft gear reducer
products onto various sized solid shafts.
The
TorqLOC eliminates the need to cut keyways or turn the solid shaft
to exacting tolerances, thus reducing the costs of new machines as
well as lowering replacement expense. TorqLOC Features Dimensionally
compact design, allowing for mounting locations close to bearings or
machine frames. Dependable support of the hollow shaft reducer on
the solid shaft while delivering maximum torque and shock load
capability. Gear reducer can be removed after years of service as
easily as the first day it was installed.
Available in either electroless
nickel or stainless steel to withstand the harshest environments.
The TorqLOC hollow shaft mounting system will be available at the
beginning of the year on select hollow shaft reducer sizes.
For more information contact your local SEW-Eurodrive assembly
center or sales representative, which you can find at http://www.seweurodrive.com/sales.htm.
About SEW Eurodrive
SEW-Eurodrive—one of the world's
largest suppliers of drive technology—has built a unique
organization in the United States, now celebrating over 25 years of
manufacturing and support. The SEW organization has grown to include
a world-class manufacturing center, 5 assembly plants, and 63
technical sales offices strategically located across the country.
The result is not only the broadest selection of drive motors, speed
reducers, and electronic controls, but the most responsive support
of any supplier in the industry.
Help
Forum
Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Nii needs help with odor
control:
Can anyone advise me on a simply
maintained odor control system for a 1 mgd wastewater treatment
plant in Japan (system suggestion, costs, etc.)? It's for an
enclosed headworks facility that is having problems with corrosion
and complaints from a nearby community.
(Click
here to post a reply)
In an effort to cut costs, we are
gradually reducing the manning levels, particularly at our small
rural wastewater treatment works. To compensate, we are considering
adding instruments to monitor critical parameters and linking these
via telemetry to a regional control center. Instruments would
include:
- sludge blanket detectors,
- turbidity monitors
- final effluent ammonia and phosphate monitors.
Does anyone have experience of
long-term field reliability of these instruments and whether they
have been effective at detecting process failures. I am concerned
that spurious alarm signals might lead to the instruments being
ignored, then they won't be maintained, and we will have wasted
money!!
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Share your expertise with others in the Help
Forum.
Photos
Wanted
Call For Photographs!
This
week's photo is of installation of
a Franklin Miller Taskmaster twin shaft grinder reduces
solids at plant headworks to help protect pumps and process
equipment from ragging and plugging.
Submitted by Bill
Galanty of Franklin Miller
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.
Fast-growing desalination and
wastewater treatment firm in the Caribbean is seeking a talented,
hardworking engineer to 1) be involved with a ground-breaking
desalination technology that we are about to pilot test, 2) manage a
series of reverse osmosis plants and wastewater treatment plants, 3)
assist in the design and construction of such plants and 4) grow
into a senior management position.
Responsibilities include customer
support, managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary project teams,
preparing technical reports, preparing detailed designs, performing
quality assurance reviews, preparing construction tender and
contract documents, and providing quality assurance reviews and
technical support during construction.
If you are responsible, diligent, and
compulsive about details, understand electricity, water,
construction, common PC software such as Excel and Word, and want a
job with vary challenges, we’re waiting to hear from you.
Seven Seas Water Corp.
6200 Frydenhoj, Suite 4
St. Thomas, VI 00802
Tel: (340) 775-6607
Fax: (340) 715-0003
Email: fhung@7seaswater.com
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"Since
September 11, we have moved quickly to help secure America's
drinking and wastewater systems against terrorists attacks,"
Whitman told attendees at the annual conference. "And you have
been right there alongside us. This work, as well as efforts
underway with partners around the country, is critically important
to protecting our water supplies and systems effectively and
intelligently."
The inline Taskmaster TT features a
built-in oversized two stage tramp trap designed to let heavy tramp
solids drop out before reaching the grinder cutters. This unit’s
grinding unit has a convenient “drop-in” design that facilitates
easy removal of the grinder unit from it’s pipe housing for
maintenance. A valve is provided for quick access and removal of the
collected tramp material. The unit’s inlet and outlet flanges are
inline for easy installation and retrofitting into existing
pipelines.
