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EPA :
$200B Needed for Wastewater Control
 Washington,
DC -- A new report from the EPA estimates $202.5 billion is
the nationwide capital investment needed to control
wastewater pollution for up to a 20-year period.
Delivered to Congress this week,
the 2004 Clean Watersheds Needs Survey summarizes the
results of the agency's 14th national survey on the needs of
publicly owned wastewater treatment works. The estimate
includes $134.4 billion for wastewater treatment and
collection systems, $54.8 billion for combined sewer
overflow corrections, and $9.0 billion for stormwater
management.
"Water infrastructure is a
lifeline for health and prosperity in communities across
America," said Assistant Administrator for Water Benjamin H.
Grumbles. "EPA is working with our partners to promote
sustainable solutions and help utilities and households save
money, water and energy."
Communities across the country
face challenges in sustaining their water infrastructure.
EPA is working with states, tribes, utilities, and other
partners to reduce the demand on infrastructure through
improved asset management, improved technology, water
efficiency, and watershed-based decision making, and is
working with Congress to enact the Administration's Water
Enterprise Bond proposal.
The report provides information
to help the nation make informed decisions about pollution
control needs necessary to meet the environmental and human
health objectives of the Clean Water Act. The figures
represent documented wastewater investment needs, but do not
account for expected investment and revenues.
Wastewater treatment utilities
pay for infrastructure using revenue from rates charged to
customers and may finance large projects using loans or
bonds. State and federal funding programs, such as EPA's
Clean Water State Revolving Fund program, are also available
to help communities meet their wastewater pollution control
needs.
The needs in this survey
represent a $16.1 billion (8.6%) increase (in constant 2004
dollars) over the 2000 report. The increase in overall
national needs is due to a combination of population growth,
more protective water quality standards, and aging
infrastructure.
More information on the needs
survey:
http://www.epa.gov/cwns/ |
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Rexnord to Acquire GA Industries
 MILWAUKEE,
WI -- Rexnord LLC announced today that its affiliate, Zurn
Industries, LLC has entered into a definitive agreement to
acquire the stock of GA Industries, Inc. for a cash purchase
price of $76 million.
The acquisition is expected to
close in the first calendar quarter of 2008 and will expand
Rexnord’s strategic water management platform, which was
created with the company’s acquisition of Zurn Industries in
February, 2007. Rexnord anticipates funding the acquisition
within its existing credit facilities.
The acquisition further expands
Zurn’s presence in water and wastewater markets in
municipal, hydropower, and industrial environments. GA
Industries, Inc. (GAI), which includes the Rodney Hunt
Company, manufactures automatic control valves, check
valves, gate valves, and other engineered flow control
products.
GAI is based in Cranberry,
Pennsylvania and also has a facility in nearby Mars,
Pennsylvania. The Rodney Hunt Company is located in Orange,
Massachusetts. GAI and Rodney Hunt employ nearly 300
employees with annual sales of approximately $60 million.
Additional information about each company is available at
www.gaindustries.com
and www.rodneyhunt.com.
Alex P. Marini, President and CEO
of Rexnord’s Water Management Group, said, “The addition of
GAI and the Rodney Hunt Company will greatly expand and
enhance our water management portfolio and make Zurn
Industries the preeminent provider of engineered water
management solutions.”
Mike Colton, CEO of GA
Industries, Inc. stated, “The merger provides our customers,
distributors and employees with the additional strength and
resources of Rexnord and Zurn. The newly combined product
line greatly enhances the scope of products available to our
customers”.
Bob Hitt, Rexnord President and
Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are pleased to welcome
GAI and Rodney Hunt to Rexnord and Zurn. The rich histories
of the companies, coupled with their long standing
traditions of product design and customer satisfaction, are
valuable complements to our water management platform.”
Additional information about the
company can be found at
www.rexnord.com and
www.zurn.com |
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Siemens Creates an Innovative
SBR System
 Erlangen,
Germany -- Siemens Water Technologies’ innovative OmniFlo
interchange sequencing batch reactor (ISBR system provides
the most energy-efficient and the lowest sludge yield of any
SBR on the market today. Developed as the result of an
existing installation’s performance, the newly branded ISBR
system combines the company’s state-of-the-art OmniFlo SBR
system with its Cannibal solids reduction system.
The
OmniFlo ISBR system has an inherent biological nutrient
removal (BNR) capability through the use of automated
controls that provide optimum environments for each BNR
reaction. It also produces a very high-quality effluent at
varying flows and loadings.
The
small footprint OmniFlo ISBR system produces a very low
sludge yield of 0.05 to 0.25 pounds of biological solids per
pound of BOD per day and, compared to a typical SBR system,
provides increased flexibility as well as significant power
savings.
Siemens’ ISBR system is ideally suited for plants that have
high solids handling costs, high energy costs and tight
effluent requirements. Installing just an SBR system helps
plants meet state nutrient removal limits. But adding on a
Cannibal system can also reduce high energy costs associated
with aerating an aerobic digester, reduce the need for
installing sludge handling equipment, and generally provide
a more energy-efficient solution. Significant reductions in
the amount of solids generated for disposal are also
ultimately realized.
The
ISBR system has allowed the wastewater treatment facility at
a California casino to minimize solids wasting to less than
0.1 pounds of biological solids per pound of BOD treated.
The facility has also used less than 10% of the power for
solids treatment than was planned with the proposed aerobic
digester.
A
single integrated control system from Siemens Water
Technologies optimizes overall plant performance and serves
as a single point-of-contact for the process. It also
balances ISBR system operating conditions to help maintain
effluent quality and minimize solids production.
Source:
http://www.siemens.com/water
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Student Team Assesses New
SMZ-ZVI Filter
 SOCORRO,
NM -- A New Mexico Tech team comprised of five Tech
undergraduates is working to assess the commercial
feasibility of a new water-filtration system which was
developed using technology pioneered by a hydrologist at
the research university.
Under the project, which is
part of the National Science Foundation-funded New
Mexico-Chihuahua Partnership for Innovation, students
enrolled in New Mexico Tech’s management and mechanical
engineering departments also are collaborating with
colleagues at New Mexico State University and three
universities in Mexico to comprehensively test the
filtration system, which uses a surfactant-modified
zeolite/zero-valent iron (SMZ/ZVI) water-filtration
medium.
The novel SMZ/ZVI filtering
system was developed in large part by New Mexico Tech
hydrology professor and researcher Robert Bowman and was
patented by Tech.
The current version of the
water-filtration system being tested uses gravity to
force water through the filtering medium, which is
housed in a large fiberglass canister that resembles an
oxygen tank.
Previous tests conducted at
New Mexico Tech show that SMZ/ZVI water-filtering
systems can effectively be used to remove undesirable
contaminants and metals, such as arsenic, from water. In
addition, the filtering system was shown to also remove
bacteria and viruses from waters being tested.
“In projects like this, two
of the key variables for assessing commercialization
potential are scalability and cost,” said Peter Anselmo,
chair of the New Mexico Tech Department of Management
and faculty advisor for the team project.
“We are testing both these
factors with the filtration system we’ve built, as we
continue to sample water on a daily basis to see whether
the SMZ/ZVI medium, which works great in the lab, will
work as well with larger volumes of water passing
through it,” Anselmo related.
The New Mexico Tech team
recently was the beneficiary of test equipment donated
to the project by Sandia National Laboratories.
“This recently donated
equipment will provide an additional means of testing
scalability of various configurations of the filtration
medium that we can then use to supplement the testing
currently being conducted by our partners in Mexico,”
Anselmo said.
“If it is found to work under
an assortment of various real-world conditions, then we
need to know how long or how much water volume a given
amount of filtering medium can handle,” he said. “The
latter is obviously related to the cost issue.”
Anselmo pointed out that the
commercial-feasibility study being conducted by the New
Mexico Tech students is already international in scope,
with actual water testing being conducted in Mexico, and
that, once fully developed, the water-filtration system
could be used worldwide.
In addition to water testing,
the New Mexico Tech undergrads—management majors
Jonathan Gardner, Duong Hung, and Ben Simpson, along
with mechanical engineering major Vincent Brandon and
electrical engineering/physic major Robert Ryan—are also
involved in developing related marketing plans and
negotiating with prospective providers of raw materials
and manufacturing equipment.
New Mexico Tech team members
also are continuing to work in close conjunction with
Bowman, keeping the filtering system’s inventor
appraised of their progress with the project.
Source:
http://www.nmt.edu/
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