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- Partnership Receives Grant to Assist Bulgaria Water &
Wastewater System
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From USFilter
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- This Month's Ask Tom!
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"Americans...Take
For Granted"
W. PA Partnership
Receives Grant to Assist Bulgaria Water & Wastewater System
PITTSBURGH, July 20 /PRNewswire/ --
When a tiny Bulgarian town was faced with deteriorating drinking
water and sewage systems, it found the help it needed right here in
western Pennsylvania.
A
Black Sea coastal town, Kavarna was suffering from a leaky water
distribution system and an inadequate wastewater collection system
that was causing severe pollution problems. Community leaders needed
help to solve their current problems as well as work on long-term
plans and goals. That's when three local agencies,
Pennsylvania-American Water Company (PAWC), the Allegheny County
Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) and Duquesne University, were brought
on board by the ECOLINKS program. An initiative of the US Agency for
International Development, ECOLINKS seeks practical, market-based
solutions to industrial and urban environmental problems in Central
and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The program promotes
partnerships by linking businesses, local governments, and
associations from those regions with U.S. businesses and other
organizations.
In order to help resolve Kavarna's
long-standing environmental challenges, ECOLINKS provided a $50,000
grant for the team to develop and implement solutions.
According to Bob Croker, manager of
western operations for PAWC, issue number one is Kavarna's
excessively leaky water distribution system. "By developing a
program for the detection and repair of water main leaks, the
municipality will be able to avoid depletion of its precious
groundwater supplies, save on system operating costs and then
replace aging water mains with the savings," Croker said.
Mark Hannum, ALCOSAN's director of
operations and maintenance is handling sewage related environmental
problems that are affecting the Black Sea. Hannum says a significant
portion of Kavarna is not served by the existing wastewater system
so ALCOSAN will be helping them with plans to extend the system and
optimize the operation of the local wastewater treatment plant.
Hannum says his trip to Kavarna
allowed him to feel a greater appreciation for the advantages
Americans often take for granted.
"Half a century of communist
control has exacted a terrible price on a beautiful country,"
said Hannum. "Due to the condition of the Bulgarian economy,
environmental controls come at a much higher personal cost to the
Bulgarian people, but in spite of the burden they exhibit grit and
determination to bring their country up to western standards."
One of the key elements of ECOLINKS
is that when troubled countries work with their U.S. (or regional)
partners, they are able to better identify and remedy environmental
problems by learning how to adopt best environmental practices and
technologies. As these partnerships mature, trade and investment in
environmental goods and services will increase.
"On a longer term basis, we will
be providing Kavarna with a blueprint for the viable operation of
both the water and wastewater systems," said Stan Kabala,
Associate Professor at Duquesne University's Center for
Environmental Research and Education. "The plan will provide
for a safe and reliable water supply, environmentally sound
wastewater collection and treatment and, very importantly, will
allow for growth of tourism and the economy of the Kavarna
region," Kabala said.
The American team is now awaiting
arrival of three of the Bulgarian partners, including the Mayor of
Kavarna, who will be traveling to western Pennsylvania to tour
PAWC's water treatment plants and ALCOSAN's wastewater plant, among
other sites. There, the Kavarna group will gain firsthand knowledge
of best practices in water supply and wastewater treatment operation
and management plus hear of the solutions the American team plans to
implement when they return to Bulgaria in September. Completion of
the project is expected by April 2002.
Pennsylvania-American Water
Company, a subsidiary of American Water Works Company (NYSE:
AWK), is the largest regulated water company in the United States.
The Company owns and operates 35 surface water filtration plants
with a combined capacity of 332 million gallons of water per day.
More than 8,000 miles of water transmission and distribution lines
deliver high quality water to more than two million Pennsylvanians.
American Water Works Company (NYSE: AWK) is the largest and most
geographically diverse investor-owned water utility business in the
United States. The Company's utility subsidiaries and affiliates now
serve approximately 10 million people in 23 states.
SSI
Receives Order for Full-Scale Production Demonstration Unit From
USFilter
VANCOUVER, British
Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2001-- Service Systems
International, Ltd. (OTCBB:SVSY) announces the supply of a new
full-scale Production Demonstration Unit (PDU) of its patented Ultra
Guard(R) UV wastewater disinfection system to USFilter's Wallace and
Tiernan Products, the Company's Strategic Alliance partner in North,
South and Central America and the Caribbean.
Service
Systems will supply a full-scale testing demonstration unit for
exclusive use by USFilter's Wallace and Tiernan Products at
locations in North America. This unit will be manufactured at
Service Systems' facilities near Vancouver, Canada. The PDU will
include the latest Ultra Guard(R) technology including the patented
Single Lamp Reactor (SLR), fully automated computer operation and
quartz sleeve cleaning features. USFilter's Wallace and Tiernan
Products has dedicated the support equipment and staffing resources
to operate the unit at wastewater treatment facility demonstration
sites.
The full-scale PDU offers significant
advantages in marketing the Ultra Guard(R) UV disinfection system.
By locating the unit on-site at a potential customer's facility, the
testing can provide accurate assessment of the disinfection
capabilities and demonstrate the significant operational cost saving
in a potential client's actual conditions. Potential customers can
better identify specific problems that may be particular to their
wastewater flow. This real world testing results in better project
capital cost estimates, more accurate need assessments leading
ultimately to greater client satisfaction.
Prior to the Strategic Alliance, the
use of existing PDU systems as a testing mechanism by Service
Systems has resulted directly in contracts or opportunities for
future business with the customer participating in the trial.
"We are pleased to provide our
Strategic Alliance partner with this outstanding tool that verifies
the capabilities and benefits of the Ultra Guard(R) disinfection
system," said President, Ken Fielding. "USFilter's Wallace
and Tiernan Products has committed the resources to see our product
properly demonstrated in real world conditions. We are confident
that use of this PDU will increase customer confidence and result in
sales," he added.
About Service Systems
Service Systems International, Ltd.
(OTCBB:SVSY) is a UV water and wastewater treatment company. Its
patented Ultra Guard(R) disinfection system is seen as a significant
advancement in the industry and has met one of the world's strictest
standards governing wastewater reuse (California, Title 22). Ultra
Guard technology provides significant savings in installation,
operation and maintenance costs over its competitors. Ultra Guard is
actively marketed through an exclusive agent agreement with
USFilter, one of the world's leading providers of wastewater
treatment technology.
For more information contact: Service Systems International, Ltd.
Dave Grandy, 866/642-0787 (toll-free)
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Drought
Proof Water Supply
Funding for the Groundwater Replenishment
System to go to Conference Committee
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. - The United
States House of Representatives Energy and Water Appropriations
Subcommittee recently approved funding for Orange County's
Groundwater Replenishment (GWR) System project. Project funding was
approved for $3 million - a markup from the $1.8 million originally
included in the President's budget. However, the Senate last week
approved $1.8 million for the project, which now means the funding
will be discussed in the Conference Committee.
"Hopefully
the results of the Conference Committee will concur with the markup
made by the House Subcommittee," said Irv Pickler, President of
the Joint Cooperative Committee for the Groundwater Replenishment
System. "This is an important project for Southern California
and additional federal funding will help the Groundwater
Replenishment System better drought-proof the area in the
future."
In the past, the GWR System project
has been appropriated $37 million from the California State Water
Bond and has received over $700,000 from the California Energy
Commission, $500,000 from the EPA and $3.5 million from the Bureau
of Reclamation.
Full design and preliminary
construction have been approved for Phase I of the GWR System at an
expected cost of $352 million at its completion in 2005. Phase I
includes construction of a pipeline along the Santa Ana River, a
water purification plant and expansion of a seawater intrusion
barrier. Initial implementation of the water purification plant will
provide 70,000 acre-feet* per year of a new, drought-proof water
supply for Orange County. The GWR System will be located on
the joint water campus of the Orange County Water District and the
Orange County Sanitation District in Fountain Valley, Calif.
The GWR System is a joint project of
the Orange County Water District and Orange County Sanitation
District. It will provide Orange County with a new source of
purified water. The GWR System will take highly treated sewage from
the Orange County Sanitation District, currently sent to the ocean,
and purify it to near-distilled water quality through 100 percent
microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet disinfection
technologies. The water will then be injected into an underground
seawater intrusion barrier and also percolated into the county's
groundwater basin by the Orange County Water District. Because the
GWR System requires only half the electric power of importing water
from Northern California, the GWR System not only improves the
quality of our local water supply, but also saves electric energy.
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Effizon
Ozone Generator
PCI-Wedeco to Supply
the World's Largest Ozone System
WEST CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY, JUNE 19,
2001 - PCI-WEDECO Environmental Technologies (West Caldwell, New
Jersey), North America's leading ozone system manufacturer, has been
selected by the City of Dallas to supply an integrated oxygen-ozone
generation system for its' Eastside Water Treatment Plant.
PCI-WEDECO,
a subsidiary of the Duesseldorf, Germany based WBL Holding, was
selected by the City of Dallas as the sole supplier for the
integrated package as part of a major upgrade to the Eastside Plant.
The project is unique in its scale. It will include nine (9)
individual PCI-WEDECO Effizon ozone generators each capable of
producing 4000 pounds per day (76 kilograms per hour) of ozone. The
total ozone system capacity of 36,000 pounds per day (684 kilograms
per hour) will be produced at high concentrations of more than 10%
by weight using oxygen to maximum plant efficiency.
Upon commissioning in 2003, it will
become the worlds largest ozone treatment system for potable water,
capable of purifying up to 450 million gallons per day.
John Marrino, PCI-WEDECO's president
said, "We are thrilled to have been selected by Dallas to
provide this system. Ozone will play an increasing role in water
treatment as municipalities continue to upgrade their systems to
provide the highest water quality to their customers while avoiding
chlorine and its potential by-products." John added, "Our
Effizon ozone generators represent the state-of-the-art in terms of
reliability and performance. The City will continue to benefit long
after the plant is commissioned as a result of the lower operating
and maintenance costs associated with this technology."
Ozone is a powerful oxidant, capable
of easily oxidizing naturally occurring water contaminants that can
adversely affect water quality. It is also an extremely efficient
disinfectant, eliminating harmful bacteria, viruses and protozoa
such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia to ensure safe drinking water
for consumers. More and more plants are upgrading to ozone treatment
as an environmentally sound alternative to chlorine, eliminating
concerns over chlorinated by-product formation while producing
crystal clear, odor free and microbiologically safe water that
tastes great.
PCI-WEDECO selected BOC Gases, an
expert at providing water-treatment and industrial gas related
solutions to companies and local governments around the globe, as
the supplier of a 60-ton per day on-site oxygen generation plant
that will provide the feed gas to the ozone generation system. The
BOC Group, which serves two million customers in more than 50
countries, is one of the largest and most global of the world's
leading gases companies. It employs nearly 43,000 people and had
annual sales of nearly $5.8 billion in 2000. More information about
The BOC Group may be obtained on the Internet at http://www.boc.com
Before selecting PCI-WEDECO the City
of Dallas conducted a thorough examination of potential ozone-oxygen
system suppliers for this important project. Randy Edmundson, P.E.
Project Manager for the City of Dallas, said, "Putting an ozone
based treatment system at the Eastside WTP will ensure that we
deliver the highest quality water to the residents of the City of
Dallas. We wanted to make sure that the ozone and oxygen generation
equipment were the best available in terms of performance and
reliability. We have achieved that goal with the selection of
PCI-WEDECO and BOC Gases."
PCI-WEDECO's unique, proven EFFIZON
ozone generation technology exhibits unmatched reliability and
efficiency for high concentration ozone production in oxygen gas.
PCI-WEDECO is also the only ozone company with
"full-service" capabilities in North America, which
includes the ability to factory assemble and fully test the ozone
generators for the City of Dallas prior to delivery. This will
ensure a rapid installation and smooth plant start-up, critical to
the success of such a project.
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A
Black Sea coastal town, Kavarna was suffering from a leaky water
distribution system and an inadequate wastewater collection system
that was causing severe pollution problems. Community leaders needed
help to solve their current problems as well as work on long-term
plans and goals. That's when three local agencies,
Pennsylvania-American Water Company (PAWC), the Allegheny County
Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) and Duquesne University, were brought
on board by the ECOLINKS program. An initiative of the US Agency for
International Development, ECOLINKS seeks practical, market-based
solutions to industrial and urban environmental problems in Central
and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The program promotes
partnerships by linking businesses, local governments, and
associations from those regions with U.S. businesses and other
organizations.
Service
Systems will supply a full-scale testing demonstration unit for
exclusive use by USFilter's Wallace and Tiernan Products at
locations in North America. This unit will be manufactured at
Service Systems' facilities near Vancouver, Canada. The PDU will
include the latest Ultra Guard(R) technology including the patented
Single Lamp Reactor (SLR), fully automated computer operation and
quartz sleeve cleaning features. USFilter's Wallace and Tiernan
Products has dedicated the support equipment and staffing resources
to operate the unit at wastewater treatment facility demonstration
sites.
"Hopefully
the results of the Conference Committee will concur with the markup
made by the House Subcommittee," said Irv Pickler, President of
the Joint Cooperative Committee for the Groundwater Replenishment
System. "This is an important project for Southern California
and additional federal funding will help the Groundwater
Replenishment System better drought-proof the area in the
future."