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"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 39, December 18, 2000
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!
> EPA Proposes Strict Reduce Water Pollution Feedlot Operations
> ADA-ES Begins Work Testing Mercury Emissions Controls
> Go Holiday Shopping at Amazon.com
> Controller Ideal For Stand-Alone Systems
> Over 16,000+ Visitors and 233,000 Page Hits in November!
> A.O. Smith Sells Fiberglass Business to Two Varco Units
> 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: December 15th
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it to:
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EPA Proposes Strict Reduce Water Pollution Feedlot Operations
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- EPA today is proposing
strict new controls to protect public health and the environment
from one of the nation's leading causes of water pollution --
animal wastes from large, industrial feedlot operations.
EPA Assistant Administrator for Water, J. Charles Fox, said,
"Wastes from large factory farms are among the greatest threats
to our nation's waters and drinking water supplies. Today,
EPA is taking action to protect public health and the environment
by significantly controlling pollution from animal feeding
operations."
The livestock industry has undergone dramatic changes in the
past 20 years, consolidating scattered, smaller facilities into
fewer but vastly larger feeding operations that result in greater
and more concentrated generation of wastes. An estimated 376,000
large and small livestock operations that confine animals
generate approximately 128 billion pounds of manure each year.
Typically these facilities confine beef and dairy cattle,
hogs, and chickens.
Nationwide, nearly 40 percent of surveyed waters are too polluted
for fishing or swimming. Some 60 percent of river pollution
comes from all kinds of agricultural runoff, including livestock
operations. Pollution from livestock is associated with many
types of waterborne disease, as well as problems like pfiesteria
outbreaks which have plagued the Chesapeake Bay, red tides,
algae blooms, and the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
The new requirements would apply to as many as 39,000 concentrated
animal feeding operations (CAFOs) across the country. Today,
only an estimated 2,500 large and small livestock operations
have enforceable permits under the Clean Water Act. A CAFO is
currently defined as having 1,000 or more cattle or comparable
"animal units" of other livestock. Smaller operations may also
be CAFOs if they are a threat to water quality. EPA today is
co-proposing two options for a new CAFO definition. One proposed
definition could include livestock facilities with more than 500
cattle or other animal units. The other proposal would require
operations with 300-1000 cattle to have a permit if meet certain
risk-based conditions.
In addition to stricter permitting requirements, the proposal
includes several new strict controls: 1) poultry, veal, and swine
operations would be required to prevent all discharges from
their waste storage pits and lagoons where wastes are collected;
2) the proposal eliminates potential exemptions from permits
presently used in some states; as a result, EPA expects that all
large livestock operations will now have to acquire permits;
3) under this proposal, EPA and the states will issue co-permits
for corporations and contract growers to ensure financial
resources exist to meet environmental requirements; 4) the
spreading of manure on the land owned by livestock facilities
would be limited to protect water ways.
In March l999, EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued
a Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations, in
response to public concern about contamination of rivers, lakes,
streams, coastal waters and ground water from livestock manure.
Today's proposal is an important step in that strategy.
EPA will take public comment for 120 days and will hold public
meetings around the country on today's proposal. Additional
information is available on EPA's Office of Water web site at:
http://www.epa.gov/owm/afo.htm
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ADA-ES Begins Work Testing Mercury Emissions Controls
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LITTLETON, Colo., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental
technology and specialty chemical company ADA-ES, a subsidiary
of Earth Sciences (OTC Bulletin Board: ESCI), has begun work
on a comprehensive mercury emissions control program to evaluate
the technology that power generating companies will use to
comply with new mercury regulations. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) announced today its decision to
regulate mercury emissions from the nation's coal-fired power
plants.
After signing a final $6.8 million cooperative agreement this
month with the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy
Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL), ADA-ES began developing test
plans for power plants to test mercury emission control technologies.
The EPA's new regulations require coal-fired power plants to
reduce mercury emissions for the first time. The agency will
propose regulations by 2003 and issue final rules by 2004.
Reports estimate that these new regulations will cost the
power generating industry as much as $5 billion per year to
reduce mercury emissions. Much of these costs will be borne
by power plants that burn low-sulfur coal and use particle
collection devices instead of wet scrubbers as part of their air
pollution control configurations. The four plants that will
be evaluated during the ADA-ES program are typical of this
type of application, which covers about 75 percent of the
nearly 1,100 units that are impacted by the regulations.
"These new regulations could potentially be quite expensive
for power generating companies with coal-burning power plants,"
said Michael Durham, president of ADA-ES. "We are working
diligently with our power generation partners to develop and
test technology that will allow these power plants to meet
environmental standards in the most cost-effective way possible.
ADA-ES has a history of developing successful pollution control
technologies that help power companies reduce their operational
costs while meeting environmental regulations."
The ADA-ES program will focus on control technology based upon
injecting chemical sorbents into the flue gas to react with
mercury. These sorbents are then collected in existing
downstream particulate control equipment. ADA-ES will head a
team of the country's leading mercury control experts seeking
to maximize effectiveness of the sorbents and minimize costs
to curtail mercury emissions from power plant flue gases.
Providing mercury control sorbents is expected to be a $1
billion per year industry once the new regulations are fully
implemented.
ADA-ES currently provides commercial air pollution control
technology that is very similar to sorbent-based mercury
emission control. ADA-ES installs equipment that injects
proprietary chemical products into the flue gas to enhance
particle collection. These chemicals are subsequently captured
along with the dust in the existing particulate control equipment
to help boiler operators meet current environmental regulations
on particulates while burning low-cost Western coals.
For more information contact:
ADA Environmental Solutions, LLC
8100 SouthPark Way, Unit B-2
Littleton, Colorado 80120
Denver Area Voice: 303.734.1727
Toll Free Voice: 1.888.822.8617
Denver Area Fax: 303.734.0330
Toll Free Fax: 1.888.822.8618
Web site: http://www.adaes.com/
mailto:ir@adaes.com
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Go Holiday Shopping at Amazon.com
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For a change and with the holiday season approaching we are
including some links to help you with finding the right gift
at Amazon.com.
Amazon now offers not only books, but movies, music, toys,
games, electronics, software and home improvement items.
You can link off directly to any of those areas by clicking
on the links below:
I have found Amazon.com to be a great and secure place to buy
gifts. Specially with Amazon's "One-Click" shopping.
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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Controller Ideal For Stand-Alone Systems
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VADNAIS HTS., Minn., Dec. 4, 2000 - USFilter introduces the
USF820 Data Logging Process Controller for integrated,
cost-effective process control and monitoring. Developed by
USFilter’s Control Systems located in Vadnais, Hts, Minn.,
the USF820 delivers single and multi-loop, logic controls
and comprehensive data logging/trending functions in a single
modular system.
The USF820 controller is the ideal control and monitoring
solution for stand-alone or networked, water and wastewater
process control applications, including batch control systems,
aeration control, chemical feed systems, pump stations,
filter operation, odor control, etc. The tightly integrated
control package combines the 6" Color NEMA 4X operator
interface and easy-to-use graphical configuration software
with consistent high performance. The separation of control
functions from operator functions allows greater installation
flexibility and operation security, while the Control
Builder software simplifies control development and
configuration record keeping.
Other benefits of the USF820 include:
Data archiving up to 60 days on standard 3.5" floppy disk,
which provides historical performance and eliminates need
for paper records.
Control library includes specialized functions specific to
water and wastewater applications
Intuitive operator interface minimizes training, eliminates
errors and enables efficient process management.
Networking with dual, RS-485 serial communication ports via
Modbus RTU Master and Slave protocol.
Modular 16 slot I/O rack supporting up to 116 electrically
isolated field data points.
For more information on the new USF820 Process Controller,
contact:
Mr.Troy Hertog
US Filter’s Control Systems
Telephone: 651-766-2722
Web site: http://www.usfilter.com/
mailto:hertogt@usfilter.com
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A.O. Smith Sells Fiberglass Business to Two Varco Units
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MILWAUKEE, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A. O. Smith Corporation
(NYSE: AOS, AMEX: SMC) today announced the sale of its Smith
Fiberglass Products Company to Fiber Glass Systems, L.P. and
Tuboscope (Holdings U.S.) Inc., subsidiaries of Varco
International Inc. of Houston, Texas. The terms of the sale
were not disclosed.
Varco International supplies technical services and engineered
products to the oil and gas drilling, completion, production,
and transmission industries worldwide. Its Fiber Glass Systems
subsidiary manufactures fiberglass reinforced epoxy pipe and
fittings for oil field applications as well as fiberglass
downhole tubing and casing. Tuboscope supplies coiled tubing,
internal tubular coatings, and inspection services for the
petroleum production industry.
Smith Fiberglass Products manufactures fiberglass pipe and
fittings for petroleum production, service station, chemical
processing, and industrial applications. The company is
headquartered in Little Rock, Ark., with plants in Wichita,
Kan., and Harbin, China and employs approximately 400
people worldwide.
"The sale of Smith Fiberglass will enable A.O. Smith to
concentrate its time and resources on the expansion of its
electric motor and water heater businesses," Robert J.
O'Toole, chairman and chief executive officer, said. "We
believe in Varco International we have found a buyer that
is strongly committed to growing in the fiberglass pipe
industry."
A.O. Smith Corporation, is a diversified manufacturer with
headquarters in Milwaukee, Wis. Its major product lines
include fractional horsepower, hermetic, and integral
horsepower electric motors, residential and commercial
water heating equipment, and hydronic boilers. The company
has plants in eight countries and employs approximately
15,000 people.
SOURCE A.O. Smith Corporation
http://www.aosmith.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.
Ms. Serra needs info on WWP facilities within buildings
Please, I am looking for examples of wastewater plants that
are below ground and have a garden, or buildings on top.
Thank you very much,
Eva Serra
Barcelona Regional, Spain
http://www.bcnregional.com/
mailto:evaserra@bcnregional.com
Ms. Cetincift what to do with wastewater after a scrubber:
I want to learn the general procedure that is applied to
acidic waste water after the a scrubber system. Can any firm
or any one help me?
Selma Cetincift
Hesfibel/Turkey
mailto:hesfibel@superonline.com
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of two 25-foot diameter by 34-foot high
Aquastore® tanks for leachate storage are enclosed in a
70-foot diameter by 5-foot high secondary containment tank.
Aquastore® primary and secondary containment tanks offer
reliable leachate storage with a glass-fused-to-steel coating
that resists corrosive contaminants. That’s why our tanks
are in service in hundreds of leachate storage applications.
Photograph courtesy of Mr. Tom Renich
A. O. Smith, Engineered Storage Products
http://www.aquastore.com/
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