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"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 3, No. 43, January 22, 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!
> Add Live Customer Service To Your Web Site
> Logan-Todd, KY Expands Water Treatment With Micro-Filtration
> Nutrient Removal, Capacity Increase In Existing WWTP Bio-Reactors
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Hyperion Honored as One of APWA's Top Ten Public Works Projects
> Over 17,000+ Visitors and 222,000 Page Hits in December!
> A.O. Smith Concludes Sale of Storage Tank Business
> 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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Logan-Todd, KY Expands Water Treatment With Micro-Filtration
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$3.8 Million System First-of-its-Kind in State
GUTHRIE, Ky., Jan. 84, 20010 - The Logan-Todd Regional Water
Commission selected USFilter to provide the first
micro-filtration system in Kentucky for its new $55 million
water treatment expansion. The expansion is part of a water
treatment regionalization of 12 water systems in the rural
areas of Logan, Todd, and part of Christian counties in
Kentucky.
The water source, the Cumberland River located 15 miles from
the intended plant, required careful consideration of
technology since it has a wide range of quality issues,
including seasonal high turbidity. The $3.8 million
state-of-the-art, Memcor® CMF (continuous micro- filtration)
system was chosen because of its ability to guarantee
pathogen removal and meet the stringent regulations.
"Building a new plant gave us a unique opportunity to
evaluate all filtration options. Membrane filtration
offered many advantages over more conventional systems
that it came out the clear winner," said Mike McGhee, P.E.,
lead project engineer of McGhee Engineering, Inc.
Since the CMF system was the first micro-filtration
installation in Kentucky, the Kentucky Division of Water
required approval. To ensure the final system sizing and
design would accommodate the water quality standards, a
five-month pilot was performed to simulate a wide range
of operating conditions using full-scale membrane modules.
The Memcor® CMF system automatically detects and reports
irregularities in performance, ensuring a four-log minimum
removal of pathogen-sized particles.
The pilot unit included the polyvinylidenediflouride (PVdF)
membrane material, which allows the use of chlorine as one
of the treatment chemicals. Along with the pressure decay
test (PDT), the trial on the PVdF membrane proved its
durability, cleaning ability and performance to produce
safer, better quality water.
The USFilter partners for this project include the design
team of McGhee Engineering, Inc., Guthrie, Ky., PEH
Engineers/Strand Associates, Louisville, Ky. & Madison,
Wis. USFilter representatives who are participating in
this project include Energenecs, Inc., Cedarsburg, Wis.
and The Henry P. Thompson Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
USFilter, a Vivendi Water company, is the leading global
provider of commercial, industrial, municipal and
residential water and wastewater treatment systems,
products and services, with operations in more than 100
countries. USFilter, which is based in Palm Desert, Calif.
invites you to visit its web site at
http://www.usfilter.com/
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Nutrient Removal, Capacity Increase In Existing WWTP Bio-Reactors
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AqWise develops advanced technologies for performance enhancement,
capacity increase and nutrient removal in activated sludge
processes in wastewater treatment plants. The technologies
developed by AqWise are doubling the capacity of existing
bio-reactors.
AqWise's technologies utilize the attached growth/fixed biofilm
concept, in which suspended plastic carriers serve as a moving
bed. A specific flow pattern creates turbulence necessary to
keep the biofilm in optimal conditions.
Main benefits of utilizing AqWise's technologies:
* High level of nutrient removal
* Additional BOD removal and/or lower retention time
* Retrofit/upgrade of existing, conventional plants
* Minimal construction works, down time, and capital cost
* Stable plant operation, lower sensitivity to chock loading
* Omission of sludge return system
* Clog free operation
For more information contact:
AqWise -Wise Water Technologies Ltd.
POB 8698,
Netanya 42504,
Israel
Phone: +972-9-885-6970
Fax: +972-9-885-6980
Web site: http://www.aqwise.com/
mailto:info@aqwise.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:
"Small and Decentralized Wastewater Management
Systems"
by Ron Crites, George Tchobanoglous
Hardcover, 1104 pages, 1998
"The Industrial Wastewater Systems
Handbook"
by Ralph L. Stephenson, James B., Jr. Blackburn, Gary W. Clark
Hardcover, 432 pages, 1997
"Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical
Processes"
by M. Henze, et al
Hard Cover, 375 pages, 2nd Edition, September 1997
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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Hyperion Honored as One of APWA's Top Ten Public Works Projects
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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI (January 18, 2001) - The American Public
Works Association (APWA) has named the Hyperion Treatment Plant
as one of the ten most outstanding public works projects of
the 20th Century. APWA's Top Ten Public Works Projects of the
Century program considered public works contributions that
have significantly affected and improved the quality of life
in the United States or Canada.
On November 23, 1998, the City of Los Angeles' Hyperion Treatment
Plant operated at full secondary treatment capacity for the
first time in nearly half a century - assuring the 4 million
residents of Los Angeles as well as millions of neighbors and
visitors that the world-renowned Santa Monica Bay would be
protected from wastewater pollution well into the new millennium.
The $1.4 billion construction program replaced nearly every
1950-vintage wastewater processing system at Hyperion while
the plant continuously treated 350 mgd and met all NPDES
permit requirements. Black & Veatch, in joint venture with
another consultant and in partnership with City of Los Angeles
staff, provided planning, design, and construction management
services for the Full Secondary Project and a portion of the
Solids Handling components of the program.
The completion of the massive Hyperion Full Secondary expansion
and upgrade program resulted in the end of spills at Hyperion;
a 95% reduction in the amount of wastewater solids entering
Santa Monica Bay; the elimination of the Bay's ecological
dead-zone near the mouth of the sludge outfall; vast
improvements in biological integrity of the bottom-dwelling
marine community; remarkable increases in the relative
abundance of many indicator-species; and partnerships among
the public, regulatory agencies, government, dischargers,
consultants, and contractors that led to one of the great
environmental achievements of the 20th Century.
Also on APWA's Top Ten list are the Golden Gate Bridge, the
Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia Basin Project, the St. Lawrence
Seaway/Power Project, the Interstate Highway System, Hoover
Dam, the Reversal of the Chicago River, the Tennessee Valley
Authority Project, the Panama Canal, and the Bay Area Rapid
Transit system.
This is the second top honor earned by the Hyperion program
in recent months. In April, the American Academy of
Environmental Engineers (AAEE) presented its top prize of
2000 Superior Achievement in Environmental Engineering
Excellence to the joint-venture team of DMJM/Black & Veatch
for the Los Angeles Hyperion Wastewater Quality Improvement
Program. With this award, AAEE recognized that the 14-year
project included innovations in treatment processes,
construction techniques, and citizen involvement and also
incurred a total cost well below the original program
budget estimate.
Engineering News-Record magazine also recently honored the
Hyperion expansion and upgrade as one of its Top 125 Projects
in the Construction Industry over the last 125 years. That
list includes such notable projects as the Eiffel Tower,
the Golden Gate Bridge and the New York Subway System.
The American Public Works Association (http://www.apwa.net/)
is a not-for-profit, international organization of more than
26,000 members involved in the field of public works. APWA
serves its members by promoting professional excellence
and public awareness through education, advocacy, and the
exchange of knowledge. The organization is headquartered
in Kansas City, Missouri, and has an office in Washington,
D.C.
The Los Angeles Department of Public Works is the city's
third largest municipal agency, employing more than with
5,600 employees. Public Works is responsible for
construction, renovation, and operation of City facilities
and infrastructures including sidewalks, bridges, sewers,
street lighting, traffic signals, wastewater treatment
plants, and public buildings.
Black & Veatch (http://www.bv.com/), a global consulting,
engineering, and construction company headquartered in
Kansas City, Missouri, specializes in the fields of
infrastructure, energy, and information technology. The
employee-owned company has approximately 7,000 employees
and 2,000 craft workers in more than 90 offices worldwide.
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A.O. Smith Concludes Sale of Storage Tank Business
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MILWAUKEE, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A.O. Smith Corporation
(NYSE: AOS, Amex: SMCA) closed on the sale of its Engineered
Storage Products Company to CST Industries, Inc.(Columbian
Tank) of Kansas City, KS. A definitive agreement on the sale
of the business was announced on December 18, 2000.
Engineered Storage Products Company, with headquarters in
DeKalb, Ill., manufactures shop-welded, bolted, and SealWeld
storage tanks for municipal, industrial, and agricultural
applications worldwide. The company has plants in Winchester,
Tenn., and Parsons, Kan., in addition to its facilities in
DeKalb and employs approximately 450 people.
CST Industries is a manufacturer of epoxy-coated bolted
storage tanks for liquid and bulk dry applications.
The close of this sale concludes A.O. Smith's divestiture of
its Storage & Fluid Handling Technologies platform. In December,
the company sold its Smith Fiberglass Products unit to Varco
International of Houston, Texas.
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
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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. Burt has a question about water treatment plant design:
I am an Environmental Planner for a planning/architecture firm
in Toronto. We are working on a project that involves one of
our local water treatment plants. Specifically, we are trying
to re-design the facility into a beautiful public work that
combines functionality with attractive design features, public
accessibility, green space and educational displays/tours.
We are looking for precedents of water/wastewater treatment
works that meet some or all of these objectives. We're hoping
for examples from both the modern era (i.e., facilities that
have been beautified and opened up to the public) and
previous eras (i.e., industrial facilities that were built
in a time when large public projects triggered pride instead
of NIMBY responses).
Do you know of any example facilities, or know of somebody
who would? Any suggestions would be appreciated...
Thank you,
Graeme Burt
Environmental Planner
Planning Alliance
mailto:graeme_burt@yahoo.com
Mr. Sandver needs help with bakery effluent:
I am looking for an article that speaks to the high strength
waste that is generated by bakeries and industrial kitchens.
Specifically (if possible) from prison bakeries and kitchen
effluent.
Jerry Sandver
mailto:sandver.jerry@doc.state.or.us
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of a 24-inch-in-diameter Slurrycup grit
classifier with a one-cubic-yard Grit Snail dewatering unit,
located at the Florence, Oregon WWTP. Eutek® Systems, Inc.
meets the challenges of separating and classifying grit as
small as 50 micron (270 mesh), while providing secondary
washing to minimize organic content. The 'all hydraulic'
Slurrycup has no internal moving parts, increasing operating
reliability. Applications include grit washing, snail shell
removal, and primary sludge degritting.
Photo courtesy of Mr. Mike Gregg, EMA Marketing
http://www.eutek.com/
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