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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 1, No. 7, December 13, 1999
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> CH2M Hill To Take Over Hanford Tank Farm Operations
> Ionics Awarded WWTP in Guadalupe, Texas Power Project
> Go Holiday Shopping at Amazon.com
> Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux Completes Tender Offer for Nalco
> We had over 95,000 hits in November!
> New Soil Moisturizing System Help Remedeation
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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CH2M Hill To Take Over Hanford Tank Farm Operations
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Richland, WA - CH2M HILL has signed a definitive agreement to
acquire Lockheed Martin Hanford Company (LMHC) and will take
over the operation, waste characterization and retrieval of
high level nuclear wastes from the aging tank farm on the
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Hanford Site in
southeastern Washington.
"Our mission at Hanford will be to continue to safely manage
the tank waste while working in partnership with the Office
of River Protection to safely and efficiently retrieve the
waste for treatment," said Ralph R. Peterson, CH2M HILL
President and CEO. "The sooner we deliver on that mission,
the greater value we'll return to DOE, the Hanford community
and taxpayers across the country."
CH2M HILL has served DOE and the Hanford Site specifically for
more than 30 years. The firm is presently supporting the
Hanford environmental restoration program.
CH2M HILL also currently serves as the management and
integration contractor for the DOE's Rocky Flats Closure
Project in a joint venture with ICF Kaiser. Since taking
over the clean up of Rocky Flats in 1995 the joint venture
company Kaiser-Hill has expedited the Rocky Flats site
closure schedule by more than 20 years.
CH2M HILL plans to work closely with the DOE Office of
River Protection and build on the momentum already
established by LMHC. In addition CH2M HILL plans to forge
strong working relationships with local communities, unions,
regulators and the Washington congressional delegation.
"We are delighted to have this opportunity to work in
partnership with the DOE's Office of River Protection
Program on such an important project," said Dr. Jim Ferris
, Group President for CH2M HILL's Energy, Environment and
Systems business. "It gratifies us even more to have such
a talented group of employees from Lockheed Martin Hanford
joining CH2M HILL. We know they will continue their
exemplary efforts to achieve program goals in a safe
and expedited manner."
CH2M HILL will officially take ownership of LMHC once
the Anti-Trust Division of the U.S. Justice Department and
the Federal Trade Commission completes a Hart Scott
Rodino Act review of the competitive impacts of the
acquisition. In the meantime, CH2M HILL will immediately
dispatch a transition team to ensure that the project
continues without interruption and that workers and
members of the community are informed about the ownership
change. An employee-owned company, CH2M HILL was founded
in Corvallis, Oregon in 1946. Today, the firm serves
clients on six continents with engineering, construction
and operations services for environmental, energy, water,
transportation and industrial infrastructure.
For more information contact:
Mr. Andre Armstrong
CH2M HILL
Telephone: 303-713-2425
mailto:aarmstro@ch2m.com
Web site: http://www.ch2m.com/
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Ionics Awarded WWTP in Guadalupe, Texas Power Project
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WATERTOWN, Mass. … Ionics, Incorporated (NYSE-ION) announced
that it has received a contract with Duke/Fluor Daniel of
Aliso Viejo, CA to supply and install an integrated water
and wastewater treatment system for the new 1000 MW power
plant in Guadalupe County, Texas. The value of the contract
is approximately $9 million.
The power plant’s integrated water and wastewater system will
treat up to 9 million gallons of river water and 600,000
gallons of plant wastewater and will utilize several
technologies from The Ionics Toolbox®. These include
softening/clarification to supply cooling tower makeup water,
and Ionics’ proprietary evaporation, crystallization, and
electrodeionization (EDI) technologies to recover 99% of the
plant’s wastewater for reuse. The Ionics system will minimize
the plant’s water consumption, produce high quality boiler
feedwater, recycle water to the cooling tower, and provide
for a "zero liquid discharge" facility.
According to Arthur L. Goldstein, Ionics’ Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, "The award of the Guadalupe Power Project
represents a strong vote of confidence in Ionics’ ability
to provide cost-effective water and wastewater treatment and
reuse solutions for industrial clients, a concept we refer
to as Ionics Total Water Management®."
Ionics is a global separations technology company involved
in the manufacture and sale of membranes, equipment and own
and operate services for the purification, disinfection,
concentration, treatment and analysis of water, wastewater
and ultrapure water. Over a period of more than 40 years,
Ionics has built more desalination plants than any company
in the world. Ionics has been a pioneer in purified water
with its worldwide five-gallon brand, Aqua Cool® Pure
Bottled Water.
For more information contact:
Ionics, Inc.
65 Grove Street
Watertown, MA USA 02472-2882
Telephone: 617-926-2500
Fax: 617-926-4304
Web site: http://www.ionics.com/
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We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
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Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux Completes Tender Offer for Nalco
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PARIS and NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux (Paris
Bourse: LY), a world leader in private infrastructure services,
announced that it has successfully completed its tender offer
r for shares of Nalco Chemical Company (NYSE: NLC), a leading
provider of water treatment services and products.
Based on preliminary information, 66,195,851.711 shares of
Common Stock of Nalco (including 907,700 shares tendered
pursuant to notices of guaranteed delivery) and 346,606.379
shares of Series B ESOP Convertible Preferred Stock of Nalco
were validly tendered under the terms of the offer. All shares
validly tendered were accepted for payment at a price of
$53.00 per share of Common Stock and $1060.00 per share of
Series B ESOP Convertible Preferred Stock. Upon payment for
the tendered shares, Suez Lyonnaise will own approximately
97.1 percent of the outstanding share capital of Nalco on a
fully diluted basis.
With annual revenues of $32.5 billion, Suez Lyonnaise is a
world leader in private infrastructure services, with
operations in more than 120 countries. It is a market leader
in the water sector, supplying drinking water to 85 million
people and providing wastewater services to 57 million people.
The three global core business sectors of Suez Lyonnaise
are: energy, water, and waste services.
Based in Naperville, Illinois, outside of Chicago, Nalco
employs 7,000 people of which about 3,600 are engineers
and technicians with direct customer contact and 300 are
researchers located in five R&D centers.
For more information contact:
Nalco Chemical Company
One Nalco Center
1601 W. Diehl Road
Naperville, IL 60563-1198 U.S.A.
Telephone: 630-305-1000
Fax: 630-305-2900
Web site: http://www.nalco.com/
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New Soil Moisturizing System Help Remedeation
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Water is essential to all living organisms from man to microbe.
It is a necessary component in the successful remedeation of
contaminated soil through bio-augmentation. The problem has
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U.S. Microbics, Inc.
5922 B Farnsworth Court
Carlsbad, Ca 92008
Telephone: 760-918-1860 ext.109
mailto:george@bugsatwork.com
Web site: http://www.bugsatwork.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. Luke is baffled about baffling tanks:
I'd like to learn about baffle systems for steel tanks in order
to increase contact time. What types of materials have been used
successfully?What materials have resulted in problems? What is
the best way to connect the baffles to the tanks walls and floors.
Joe Luke
mailto:jjluke@guerra.com
Mr. Bielak wants to remove iron:
I have a private well that has methane and iron bacteria, I cannot
find the answer to this problem, I also have test results of the
water in question. I am willing and able to install a new system
myself however I not sure what the next step is, HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rich Bielak
36 W. 467 Hickory Hollow Dr.
Dundee IL, 60118
Home Telephone: 847-836-8424
Work Telephone: 800-466-3779
Fax: 847-428-8965
mailto:tiger4040@att.net
Mr. Alavi wants to know more about wet land filtering:
I am student in Iran. I am searching for waste water
treatment. I like to have more information about wet land
and planted soil filter. Would you please comment me to
have searching.
With best regards,
R.Alavi
mailto:r.alavi@mavara.com
Fax: 0098-21-8907230
Ms. Dixon wants to treat gallium arsenide:
Has anyone any information regarding the toxicity and
treatability of gallium arsenide waste at receiving
sewage treatment works. At what levels would this
compounds predicially affect the treatment of at the
receiving sewage treatment works.
Joanne Dixon
mailto:joanne.dixon@nwl.co.uk
Mr. Elano wants to know about treatment costs:
If is possible, I'd like know how much costs treatment
of loads heavy metals/ per Kg of Mn,Fe, Zn, Cu, Cr, Pb,
Cd, Ni e Ag (full remotion) I need this information
because I am doing thesis about treatment of water
pollution. Sorry, my English is very bad. I'll say
great thanks for your response,
Flavo Elano
UFRN/BRAZIL
mailto:souza@samnet.com.br
P.S.: I'd like it if you send references attached about this
Mr. Martinez wants a filter press:
We are looking for a technology to increase our BFP
dewatered cake % solids concentration. There is a company
which has equipment to do so. The equipment requires
lime-FeCl treatment,vacuum plus heat in addition to
pressure(plate-filter press). Did someone can provide
more company names to contact them and ask for proposals.
Thank you for your help,
Juan M. Martinez
P.O Box 141011
Arecibo
Puerto Rico 00614-1011
mailto:fammarjov@prtc.net
Mr. Taylor wants help with the EPA:
We manufacture a liner that fits directly into a slip in a
marina. The liner allows a boat to pull in, once the boat
is in the rear portion of the liner can the be raised
separating the water around the hull of the boat from the
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