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WERF Seeks Proposals for Water
Research
 ALEXANDRIA,
VA -- The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) is
seeking pre-proposals for its Unsolicited Research Program
for research that will advance knowledge and understanding
in water quality and that could transform how WERF
subscribers perform their business.
Pre-proposals are due in WERF’s
offices by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 20, 2007.
WERF will also consider proposals that would take existing
research to the next level of completion, resulting in
practical solutions to water quality problems.
“This is the second year of our
revitalized unsolicited research program,” said Director of
Research Dan Woltering. “It is a key component of WERF’s
overall research effort and a tangible commitment to future
science and technology advances.”
Proposals in all relevant
wastewater and water quality areas are welcome. WERF
currently has research under way on the following topics:
wastewater treatment and reuse; solids treatment and reuse;
infrastructure management; operations optimization including
energy efficiency; stormwater; decentralized collection and
treatment systems; risk assessment and communication; and
watershed management and water quality.
WERF has up to $600,000 (in
total) for unsolicited research under this call for
pre-proposals and will allocate these funds in a manner that
proposed research outcomes will benefit WERF Subscribers to
the maximum extent possible. All pre-proposals are due in
WERF’s offices by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 20, 2007.
The Water Environment Research
Foundation is a nonprofit organization that helps utilities
and corporations preserve the water environment and protect
human health by providing science and technology research to
enhance management of our water resources.
The call for pre-proposals can be
viewed at:
http://www.werf.org/
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"No-Sludge" WWTP Commissioned in
Scotland
 Tobermory,
Scotland -- May 2007 saw the commissioning of a brand new
Aero-Fac® wastewater treatment plant for the very popular
tourist town of Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, backdrop for
the BBC TV children’s series "Balamory".
Going against the trend of recent
years for ever more compact treatment options, at Tobermory
Scottish Water decided that while cost effectiveness was
still paramount, sustainability and low carbon footprint
should be of more importance than small physical footprint.
Requiring a little more land than
traditional treatment plants, the Aero-Fac fully biological
process is a mechanically simple, low energy, low
maintenance wastewater treatment system that utilizes wind
power to minimize electricity requirements. The process also
has the benefit of eliminating sludge production;
dramatically cutting it’s environmental impact when compared
to more traditional sewage treatment plants.
The new plant at Tobermory is
Scottish Water’s second Aero-Fac plant and follows the
pioneering installation of a similar system at Errol six
years ago. Work is due to begin on a third plant at Bowmore
on the nearby island of Islay later this year.
With both the Tobermory and
Bowmore plants Scottish Water is further reducing the
environmental costs of treating sewage by removing the
current requirement to export sludge back to the mainland.
The plants incorporate septage reception centres designed to
accommodate septic tank sludge collected from right across
the islands.
The septic tank sludge is
completely digested in the Aero-Fac process eliminating the
need for tanker trips back to the mainland. The new
Tobermory plant was designed by LAS International and
constructed by Biwater and MWH Constructors.
Further information visit:
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NSF Announces New Nitrogen
Reduction Standard
 Ann
Arbor, MI -- NSF International today announced that a new
national standard has been published to reduce nitrogen from
residential wastewater. The focus of the standard is to
decrease excess nitrogen from any source that flows into
surface waters and stimulates algae formation, a condition
which could potentially harm marine life habitat and destroy
fish and shellfish populations.
NSF/ANSI Standard 245: Wastewater Treatment Systems –
Nitrogen Reduction was developed to address regulatory
agencies’ concerns about onsite wastewater systems’
environmental impact. Specifically, this standard addresses
the impact these systems have on ground water used as a
drinking water source, and on surface waters receiving
discharge from the systems.
Nitrite and nitrate in concentrations above the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) drinking water
standards may present public health problems for infants,
pregnant women and populations that may be
immunocompromised.
“Communities and their local community leaders sought NSF to
provide leadership in helping reduce nitrogen loads to soil,
ground water, streams, rivers, lakes and estuaries,” said
Dr. Mike Hoover, professor of North Carolina State
University who also serves as chair of the NSF Wastewater
Technology Joint Committee. “The recent adoption of this new
standard will assist health and environmental agencies in
doing just that. The standard will enhance public health
protection, but still allow people to use their land for
development purposes.”
NSF/ANSI Standard 245 establishes performance measures and
material, design and construction requirements for
residential wastewater treatment systems. Individual
residential wastewater treatment systems that meet NSF/ANSI
Standard 245 requirements could reduce the amount of
nitrogen discharged into surface waters by at least 50
percent in some watersheds, according to Dr. Hoover.
The
EPA estimates that onsite wastewater systems are used by 25
percent of all homes in the U.S. and by nearly 35 percent of
new land development. Onsite systems are also used by almost
50 percent of all people in some states.
"Improved wastewater treatment is one of the most effective
ways to reduce nitrogen pollution in water," said Tom
Bruursema, general manager, NSF Wastewater Treatment Units
Program. “NSF/ANSI Standard 245 establishes requirements
that will improve the quality of treated wastewater to help
meet the needs of public health and environmental
regulators.”
“We
are already seeing numerous new residential wastewater
technologies being developed and marketed,” said Hoover.
“This effort is bringing together public health specialists
and technology manufacturers to achieve the common goal of
meeting this new standard. It is now up to community leaders
and state regulatory officials to adopt the standard locally
for the protection of their watersheds and community public
health.”
NSF/ANSI Standard 245 was developed based on a protocol
developed under the EPA’s Environmental Technology
Verification (ETV) Program’s Water Quality Protection
Center. The protocol for nitrogen reduction for residential
wastewater treatment systems served as a guide to evaluate
six different nitrogen reduction technologies. The new
standard incorporates pass/fail criteria for system
performance and additional requirements for alarm systems,
tank requirements, noise levels and manuals.
NSF/ANSI Standard 245 was reviewed by the NSF Joint
Committee on Wastewater Technology, a group comprised of
regulators, industry representatives and product users, as
well as by the NSF Council of Public Health Consultants, a
public health advisory panel.
Web
site: http://www.nsf.org/
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Video
Newsletter Highlights the Value of Water
 Woodbridge,
VA -- The Prince William County Service Authority has launched
the Pipeline newsletter in print and video formats. The
publication and production are two of the latest initiatives of
the Service Authority’s expanding Communications and Outreach
Program.
The Pipeline updates customers about
the innovative ways in which the Service Authority provides safe
drinking water and quality service. Each issue begins with a
message from the General Manager followed by feature articles
and interviews with Authority Board members, key staff and
industry leaders.
The Pipeline is but one part of a
considerable outreach strategy dedicated to sharing important
information about drinking water and water reclamation services
with customers and the community.
“We wanted to give Service Authority
customers a clear understanding of what we as an organization do
every day to be responsible stewards of the environment while
remaining committed to meeting our customers’ needs,” said
Keenan Howell, Director of Communications.
 The
new video newsletter can be viewed on the Service Authority's
web site or by
clicking here.
The print edition of the newsletter
is also offered on the Service Authority’s website and available
in hard copy in the main lobby of the Raymond Spittle Building
in the County Government Center.
The Prince William County Service
Authority provides drinking water and water reclamation services
to more than 75,000 accounts.
Web site:
http://www.pwcsa.org/
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