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Free : EPA Watershed Handbook
Released
 Washington,
D.C. -- EPA's Office of Water has published a guide to
watershed management as a tool in developing and
implementing watershed plans. The draft Handbook for
Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters
is aimed toward communities, watershed groups, and local,
state, tribal, and federal environmental agencies.
"This handbook will help anyone
undertaking a watershed planning effort, but it should be
particularly useful to persons working with impaired or
threatened waters," said EPA Assistant Administrator for
Water Benjamin H. Grumbles.
The 414-page handbook is
designed to take the user through each step of the watershed
planning process:
-Watershed monitoring and
assessment
-Community outreach
-Selection and application of available models
-Best management practices
-Effectiveness data bases
-Implementation
-Feedback
-Plan adjustment
The handbook is intended to
supplement existing watershed planning guides that have been
developed by agencies, universities, and other nonprofit
organizations. This handbook is more specific than other
guides about quantifying existing pollutant loads,
developing estimates of the load reductions required to meet
water-quality standards, developing effective management
measures, and tracking progress once the plan is
implemented.
EPA is making this draft
document widely available with the purpose of having it used
and tested by a variety of watershed partnerships, whose
advice will be considered in developing the final version.
Comments should be addressed to
watershedhandbook@epa.gov no later than June 30,
2006.
The draft handbook is available
online at:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/watershed_handbook
You can order a free copy from
the National Service Center for Environmental Publications
by calling 800-490-9198 or e-mail
ncepimal@one.net .
When ordering, refer to EPA document number EPA
841-B-05-005.
Contact: Anne Weinberg,
202-566-1217
Source: http://www.epa.gov/
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Hatch Mott MacDonald Acquires
AWS Engineers
 Millburn,
NJ -- Hatch Mott MacDonald has acquired water and wastewater
engineering firm AWS Engineers & Planners Corp, an Ontario,
Canada-based firm with offices in Burlington and the Niagara
Peninsula from American Water Canada, Corp.
“This
acquisition is in line with Hatch Mott MacDonald’s strategic
vision of expanding its already significant water and
wastewater capabilities from the United States into the
Canadian marketplace,” said Peter Wickens, Hatch Mott
MacDonald Group CEO.
Through this acquisition, Hatch Mott MacDonald, with a staff
of 1000 in North America including 150 in Mississauga,
Ontario will add 40 more people with expertise in water and
wastewater engineering. “AWS not only offers Hatch Mott
MacDonald a platform from which we can play a role in the
future development of Ontario’s infrastructure, but this
acquisition will strengthen our firm’s skills and
capabilities in instrumentation and control system
engineering, an AWS specialty.” commented Nicholas
DeNichilo, President of Hatch Mott MacDonald’s
Infrastructure Unit.
Hatch
Mott MacDonald is a full-service infrastructure,
transportation and environmental engineering company. The
firm offers public and private clients a complete range of
services from planning, feasibility studies, conceptual
through detailed design, to procurement, construction
management, and full program management services, as well as
operations and maintenance support. With over 30 offices in
North America, and access to staff resources of more than
13,000 worldwide, Hatch Mott MacDonald can respond quickly
and cost-effectively to any project demand.
Source:
http://www.hatchmott.com/
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Weekly Update : Iraq
Reconstruction - 1/6/06
 Washington,
DC -- Weekly Update -- This fact sheet highlights overall
accomplishments and some weekly activities from USAID’s
reconstruction efforts in Iraq. For more information on
USAID’s programs in Iraq please see:
www.usaid.gov/iraq
Program Overview
USAID’s goal is to improve the efficiency and reliability of
existing water and wastewater treatment facilities,
especially those in the south where water quantity and
quality are particularly low. An anticipated 11.8 million
Iraqis will benefit from USAID’s $600 million in water and
sanitation projects.
Highlight This Week - Dry Wells No Longer
The
sound of laughter echoes across the desert as children line
up to dip their hands and face in their village’s first
potable running water. With these new spigots, each of the
1,100 residents of this small Diayla village can enjoy more
than 35 liters of clean, safe water every day.
USAID’s rural water program is installing 71 of these
potable water treatment systems (with over 500 remote
distribution sites) throughout Iraq. These sites
collectively will process over 32,000 cubic meters of water
per day, benefiting nearly 700,000 Iraqis. In villages where
the safe drinking water is installed, the Ministry of Health
will provide hygiene training in each village to augment the
expected decline of infant mortality and gastrointestinal
disease.
The
water sites are designed to serve villages with populations
between 500 and 5,000 people. The program utilizes
chlorination, compact filtration units, and/or reverse
osmosis filtration to purify the local water source (ground
or surface water).
By
placing water distribution points in remote villages
surrounding the treatment sites, each site will generally
reach a wider geographic area. Tanker trucks, provided by
donor nations to the Ministry of Municipalities and Public
Works, will collect water at the treatment sites and deliver
the potable water to storage tanks in the remote villages
for daily consumption. In northern regions, where travel
becomes difficult during the winter, pipelines supplied by
USAID will be installed by the local populace to deliver
water directly to these villages.
The
program also provides six months of in-depth, on-the-job
operation and maintenance training on how to operate the
treatment systems and maintain the 300 or so delivery trucks
to sustain this vital resource for rural Iraq. USAID
recently launched a program to bring potable drinking to
700,000 Iraqi villagers. The rural water program will
install 71 potable water systems in rural communities of
fewer than 5,000 people, resulting in 35 liters of potable
water per person each day. Children in a Diyala village line
up to put their hands and faces in the new water spigots.
This potable water is part of a larger USAID program to
bring potable water to rural villages.
Source: USAID,
http://www.usaid.gov/
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Corrosion-Resistant Ceramic Diffuser Developed
 East
Rochester, NY -- Filtros Ltd has been issued a United
States Patent for an all-ceramic gas diffuser for use in
water and wastewater treatment. This one-piece design is
formed of a gas permeable porous alumina diffuser
ceramically bonded at high temperatures to an impervious
ceramic holder yielding a corrosion resistant product.
Stainless steel components, polymer gaskets and cements
of any kind have been eliminated.
Due to this leak-free design,
customers expect to experience lower operating costs by
achieving higher efficiencies. Lower maintenance costs
are also realized due to its gasket free design and one
piece construction.
With its 3/4” NPT connection,
this diffuser is designed to retrofit into existing
systems. Originally developed for corrosive ozone
systems, third party testing also indicates the
combination of materials and design produces a highly
flexible diffuser that can be used in many different
systems operating a wide range of gases and gas flow
parameters.
With more than 90 years of
experience in water and waste water treatment, Filtros
continues its tradition of innovation.
More information can be found
on the company’s website:
www.filtrosltd.com
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Released
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Reconstruction
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