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Partnership With Local Nursery to
Yield Environmental Benefits
ROUND LAKE, Ill., July 18
/PRNewswire/ -- Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Synnestvedt
Company's nursery division have announced the launch of a novel
water reclamation project that will beneficially reuse treated
wastewater at Baxter's Round Lake, Ill., campus. The project, a
first-of-its kind in Illinois, involves Baxter leasing approximately
185 acres of land to Synnestvedt for the planting of nursery stock,
which will be irrigated with Baxter's treated wastewater.
The companies launched the project
today at a tree planting ceremony held at Baxter's Round Lake
campus. Attendees included local residents, Lake County Board Member
Bonnie Thomson Carter, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
(IEPA) Director Renee Cipriano, Illinois State Senator Bill Peterson
and Illinois State Representative Mark Beaubian and other public
officials.
Area residents challenged Baxter last
year to identify solutions that would allow it to discontinue the
discharge of its treated wastewater through a local tributary into
Long Lake, a 340-acre residential and recreational body of water.
Baxter evaluated options that would not only allow it to discontinue
its discharge to Long Lake, but provide for a broader community and
environmental benefit.
"This is a good example of how
open dialogue and collaboration between local residents and business
can result in significant benefits for the community and, in this
case, the environment as well," said Lake County Board Member
Bonnie Thomson Carter, a strong advocate and participant in the
water reclamation project.
This project is unusual in a number
of respects. For example:
The nursery will use fully treated
wastewater, which will be applied to ensure absorption by trees
or soil thereby protecting against runoff.
During winter months when
conditions are not suitable for irrigation the water will be
retained in a storage pond for reuse.
In supporting the growth of trees
and shrubs, the project allows for increased absorption of
greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, and contributes to the
company's efforts to limit global climate change.
It will keep water in the
watershed by beneficially reusing water in the irrigation of
nursery stock. At the same time, it will reduce the amount of
water that is removed from the local aquifer by replacing the
well water the nursery uses for irrigation with the treated
wastewater discharge from Baxter.
The project will allow Baxter the
flexibility to maintain whatever level of discharge necessary to
support wetland habitats downstream of the company's Round Lake
facility.
"I commend Baxter and the Long
Lake community for identifying and working toward common
environmental objectives," said Rene Cipriano, director of the
IEPA. "The goals were aggressive, and the result truly
innovative as it relates to water conservation. I hope this will
inspire similar community and business partnerships focused on the
preservation of natural resources."
Baxter's Round Lake campus includes
2,000 team members in various research, development and
manufacturing positions. It has achieved ISO 14001 certification for
environmental management systems and has earned several awards,
including an Industrial Achievement Award from the Illinois
Association of Water Pollution Control operators.
Under
Sensitive Wetlands
New
Jersey Water Company Uses Micro-Tunneling
HADDON HEIGHTS, N.J., July 16
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- New Jersey- American will be using a
technological process called micro-tunneling for the first time on a
pipeline project in Howell Township, Monmouth County, during the
week of July 15-19.
Micro-tunneling
is an electronically sophisticated, trenchless method of underground
tunneling that allows boring without disturbing the surrounding
environment.
New Jersey-American, through its
contractor Northeast Construction, will use the technology to
install a 30-inch diameter water line under approximately 650 feet
of the Marshes Bog Brook, an environmentally sensitive wetland
tributary of the Manasquan River.
There will not be any adverse effects
to the wetlands as a result of using this technology.
Use of micro-tunneling technology is
currently more routine in urban sanitary sewer construction, storm
water projects and high cost utility construction in difficult
surface or geologic circumstances. The micro-tunneling project will
help continue to ensure that New Jersey- American Water Company
customers in Monmouth County receive reliable water.
For more information, please call
Lendel G. Jones at New Jersey-American's Government Affairs
Department at 856-672-2751 or page her at 856-337-0276.
New Jersey-American Water Company is
the state's largest investor-owned water utility, serving over one
million people in 124 communities throughout the state. New
Jersey-American is a subsidiary of American Water Works Company,
Inc. American Water Works Company (NYSE: AWK) is the largest
publicly traded U.S. corporation devoted exclusively to the business
of water. Its 6,600 associates provide water, wastewater and other
related services to nearly 16 million people in 29 states and three
Canadian provinces. More information can be found on the Web at http://www.amwater.com/
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Winnipeg Uses GeoMedia Technology To
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS
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maintenance and water and sewer facility updates within a single
environment Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions today announced
that the City of Winnipeg Water and Waste Department has
successfully implemented a water and wastewater geospatial
infrastructure management system using GeoMedia technology.
The Water and Waste Department chose
GeoMedia PublicWorks Manager and GeoMedia Professional for data
maintenance on the city database that serves 178 square miles and
contains over 200,000 pipe segments and more than 1,000,000
additional features. The department uses GeoMedia and GeoMedia
WebMap Professional to share and integrate geo-referenced
information with all the city departments and external agencies such
as utility companies. Winnipeg uses Oracle and Oracle Spatial for
its enterprise-wide database for use with the GeoMedia-based
geospatial infrastructure management system. This system enables the
department to effectively maintain and update the city's water and
sewer facilities, all within a single environment.
Using GeoMedia WebMap Professional
and a staff-developed intranet application, iView, city employees
can access all spatial information in a format customized for each
department. The Water and Waste Department has made great use of
this application throughout the organization to enable quick and
easy access to important facility information through their internal
Web.
Using GeoMedia technology the new
system met the department's three primary mapping and critical
facility management requirements:
to preserve the accuracy and
integrity of existing and new data through the introduction of
rule-based data maintenance
to store data efficiently in a
nonproprietary format using an industry-standard database
to provide new advanced analysis
functions to all engineering and technical personnel.
"The entire project went
extremely well, and the department is up to speed and in full
production," said Ken Dalton, supervisor, Drafting and Graphic
Services at the City of Winnipeg. "Using GeoMedia technology's
ability to integrate directly with Oracle, we have improved access
to our asset information for both our engineering and technical
staff as well as our field personnel. With the tools available in
GeoMedia Professional and GeoMedia PublicWorks Manager, the data
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WEF Supports Proposed EPA Water
Quality Trading Policy
Alexandria, VA - The Water
Environment Federation (WEF) recently submitted comments on the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Water Quality Trading
Policy.
According
to WEF Managing Director for Government and Public Affairs, Tim
Williams, "WEF supports many of the provisions in the proposed
Policy and believes it is a positive step towards recognizing
trading as a tool to achieve water quality improvements. WEF
believes the proposed Policy will help advance national consistency
for trading while providing the public with the opportunity for
local involvement."
The EPA requested public comment on
the draft Policy on May 15th. It is a follow-up to the September
1996 document, "Framework for Watershed Based Effluent
Trading". At that time, WEF submitted comments that endorsed
trading as a potentially cost-effective, market-incentive method to
further local, regional, and national clean water goals. According
to the WEF comments submitted July 15th, the new draft Policy
clarifies some of the issues that have been interpreted as limiting
trading in the past, and positively addresses some of the concerns
expressed in WEF's comments on the 1996 Framework.
Specific aspects of the Policy that
WEF supports include: the use of trading to meet water quality based
requirements and the ability to establish a trading program in both
a pre-and post TMDL situation; emphasis on watershed and the concept
of watershed-based general permits; and recognition that trading is
a voluntary approach that may be used to more efficiently protect
and restore water quality and beneficial uses of the nation's
waters.
WEF strongly supports the concept of
trading as an innovative approach to achieving water quality goals
and seeks to assist with the development of a sound, workable
program.
Some of WEF's other recommendations
to improve the Policy include: EPA must include both permit-based
mechanisms to ensure that pollutant removal goals are attained and
requirements for contractual agreements among trading partners that
identify responsibility for pollutant removals; emphasize that the
success criteria for trades must be clearly documented and
verifiable; trading program must be voluntary so that point sources
can choose the pollutant reduction options; EPA will need to
generate guidance documents for trading to be implemented; and wide
fluctuations in cost or high costs of participating in trading will
have to be controlled in program implementation.
These WEF comments were developed by
a work group of water quality professionals from WEF's Government
Affairs Committee, Watershed Management Committee, and Nonpoint
Sources Committee.
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Micro-tunneling
is an electronically sophisticated, trenchless method of underground
tunneling that allows boring without disturbing the surrounding
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