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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 15, June 26, 2000
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Water and Waste Water Dot Com
John Yazek, Co-Editor, mailto:jyazek@h2ochem.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Sponsor's Message
> Largest Brackish Water Desalination Facility in Caribbean
Dedicated
> Azurix Selected for $130 Million W&WW Treatment Contracts
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> H2OChem.com’s Technical Tip of the Week
> Engineers see Water, Energy as Biggest Future Challenges
> GLI and Manning Environmental Announce Joint Venture
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Largest Brackish Water Desalination Facility in Caribbean Dedicated
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WATERTOWN, Mass., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- In Barbados, West
Indies on June 10, Ionics, Incorporated (NYSE: ION) and
Barbados-based Williams Industries, Inc. participated, along
with local officials, in the dedication of the largest brackish
water desalination facility in the Caribbean. The Honorable
Rommel Marshall, Minister of Public Works and Transport,
officiated. The new water desalination plant will provide fresh,
potable drinking water to one-sixth of the island's 264,000
people. The 30,000 cubic meter per day (7.9 million gallons
per day) plant utilizes reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology.
In conjunction with the new desalination facility, a water
education centre was also established which will serve as a
venue for school children, island visitors and the general
public to learn about water, its history on the island, and
the role of water desalination.
Desalinated water is being provided to the BWA on a "build-
own-operate" or privatized basis by Ionics Freshwater Ltd.,
a joint venture between Ionics and Williams Industries. Under
the terms of the agreement, Ionics Freshwater Ltd. will
operate and maintain the facility and sell the desalinated
water to the BWA for a period of up to 15 years.
"This facility is now our most secure source of potable water,
being technologically capable of providing pure water over
a wide variation in quality of feedwater supplies and, in
the event of a national disaster, which of course we hope
and pray will never occur, would be the one source likely to
suffer least. In many respects this plant becomes a safety
net, without which we have been doing our balancing acts for
too long," according to Minister Rommel.
Mr. Goldstein announced at the official opening ceremony
that Ionics, Incorporated would be awarding a scholarship
to a student pursuing studies in the field of science and
technology at the University of the West Indies, St.Augustine
campus, "consistent both with the company's commitment to
Barbados and to the value placed on educating our youth,
particularly in the disciplines of science and engineering."
For more information contact:
Francine S. Bernitz
Vice President
Marketing and Corporate Communications
Ionics, Incorporated
Telephone: 617-926-2510 ext.312
Web site: http://www.ionics.com/
mailto:fbernitz@ionics.com
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Azurix Selected for $130 Million W&WW Treatment Contracts
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HOUSTON, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Azurix Corp. (NYSE: AZX)
announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Azurix North
America, has been selected to negotiate agreements to provide
water and wastewater services to three more communities in the
United States.
The operations and maintenance contracts for communities in
Louisiana and New Jersey are valued in excess of $130 million.
These contracts would commence following completion of the
definitive agreements with the municipalities.
"We are beginning to see the results of our efforts to expand
the service business in North America," said Rebecca Mark,
chairman and CEO of Azurix. "We are very gratified that our
efforts to earn the confidence of these new clients is proving
successful. It demonstrates our ability to meet the specific
needs of municipal clients in a cost effective and creative
way."
The Council of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, voted last week
to award a $10 million five-year contract to Azurix North
America to operate and maintain its East Bank Wastewater
Treatment Plant. The contract has two five-year options for
renewal giving it a potential value of up to $30 million. A
competing bidder held the previous five-year contract.
"We are particularly pleased to be selected for this job
because it is so rare to be able to unseat an incumbent service
provider. It was a tough battle and we are happy to be the
winner, but the real winners are the citizens of Jefferson
Parish," said John Stokes, president and CEO of Azurix
North America.
The Middlesex County Improvement Authority of Middlesex, N.J.,
also voted last week to commence negotiations on a 20-year
contract with Azurix North America to operate and maintain
water treatment and distribution systems for the city of New
Brunswick and the town of North Brunswick. Azurix teamed with
local contractor JJS Services for the contract, valued at more
than $120 million.
These latest contracts come on the heels of successful contract
awards in Wildwood, N.J., Fountain Lakes and Pine Lakes, Fla.,
Sunbelt Municipal Utility District, Tex., and Mitchell, Ont.
Azurix North America also holds operating contracts for water
and wastewater facilities in Seattle, Wash., Hamilton- Wentworth,
Ont., Glynn County, Ga., and other locations throughout the United
States and Canada.
"We have dedicated a lot of effort to expand our residuals
management business over the last year, and now the operations
and maintenance business is following suit," Stokes added.
"Over the next year, we expect to see the engineering and
underground infrastructure rehabilitation businesses come on
strong as well."
For more information contact:
Azurix Corp.
333 Clay Street, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas 77002-7361
Telephone: 713-646-6001
Fax: 713-345-5358
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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:
"Materials
Handling Handbook" (McGraw-Hill)
by David E. Mulcahy, Hard Cover, 768 pages, September 1998
"Water
Treatment Membrane Processes" (AWWA Research Foundation)
by Peter Odendaal, M. Wiesner and J. Mallevialle (editors)
Hard Cover, August 1996
"Web
Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design"
by Vince Flanders and Michael Willis
Paperback, 266 pages, book & CD-ROM, March 1998
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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H2OChem.com’s Technical Tip of the Week
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HIGH IRON LEVELS IN YOUR CONDENSATE?
Consider utilizing a volatile oxygen scavenger. This week's
tip contrasts the use of sulfite vs. DEHA.
To go the entire tip click below:
http://h2ochem.com/tips/default.asp#tip
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Engineers see Water, Energy as Biggest Future Challenges
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- About 400 engineers
from various disciplines -- including civil, chemical,
mechanical and electrical engineering -- recently predicted
water would be among the top challenges and innovations for
the 21st century. In the ITT Industries/Discover Engineering
Survey, "engineers across the world … are constantly driving
technology to solve the problems we will face - and transform
the ways in which we will live, work and play," says Travis
Engen, chairman and CEO of ITT.
According to Steve Petranek, editor of Discover, "All too
often, the men and women engaged in this 'brave new thinking'
go unrecognized," said Steve Petranelk, editor of Discover.
"Through the Discover Awards, and the survey, we can bring
a measure of recognition to those who contribute to a better
world."
According to respondents, the greatest challenges that
engineers will face in the 21st century are 1) finding new
energy sources, 2) supplying the world with clean water,
3) designing products that do not harm the environment,
4) exploring deeper into space, 5) curing diseases and
prolonging life with biomedical engineering, and 6) planning
cities and allocating resources to accommodate the growing
population.
Most of the survey sample was provided by the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society of Civil
Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA,
and was coordinated by the American Association of
Engineering Societies.
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GLI and Manning Environmental Announce Joint Venture
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GLI International, Milwaukee, WI and Manning Environmental,
Georgetown, TX have entered into a joint venture. GLI
International, founded in 1970, produces on-line analytical
instrumentation serving the industrial and municipal, water
and wastewater treatment markets. Product lines include pH,
conductivity, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, suspended solids,
sludge blanket level, residual chlorine, ozone, particle
counting, flow, and level.
Manning Environmental, founded in 1972, makes water/wastewater
samplers that also serve the industrial and municipal, water
and wastewater markets. Manning Environmental is one of only
two water/wastewater sampler manufacturers offering both
vacuum and peristaltic type suction lift technologies.
Under terms of the agreement, GLI International has exclusive
world-wide rights to manufacture, market, and distribute the
new GLI/Manning line of water/wastewater samplers. Manning
Environmental will continue to perform product research and
development engineering in accordance with this agreement,
and license them exclusively to GLI International.
For more information contact:
Mr. Tim Schilz
Manager of Marketing
GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Telephone: 414-355-3601
Fax: 414-355-8346
Toll Free: 800-GLI-0263
Web site: http://www.gliint.com/
mailto:info@gliint.com
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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. Rockwell needs water storage tank freeze protection:
I am interested in any information regarding freeze protection
for a 250,000 gallon water storage tank.
Paul Rockwell
614-798-8040 office phone
614-798-8335 office fax
mailto:parbuck2@columbus.rr.com
Mr. Ryder needs help with nickel precipitation:
I supervise a hazardous waste TSDF that includes inorganic
waste water treatment. Our system uses a basic pH adjust,
lime/sulfide precipitation with flocculant process. We often
have difficulty dropping out nickel from ~10 ppm down to 4pmm.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Anyone with experience with microfiltration? Ion exchange
works but is costly due to other non-regulated metal
contaminants.
Michael Ryder
Telephone: 323-277-1493
mailto:RyderM2@USFilter.com
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of a leachate storage tank with secondary
containment located at the Metro Dade Solid Waste Facility,
Miami, Florida. The primary tank is 837,000 gallons with a
secondary containment tank of 920,000 gallons. Overall
height is 61 feet. The tank is designed to contain the
leachate from an ash landfill during heavy rains.
Photograph courtesy of Aquastore,
Aquastore
We would love to have your photo of a water treatment process,
new plant or equipment "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo with a
description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
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Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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From the Job Fair
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PROJECT MANAGER
Our client, Koch Membrane Systems (www.kochmembrane.com), is
a worldwide provider of membrane filtration equipment for a
variety of industrial, sanitary and municipal markets, and is
currently preparing for exponential growth over the next 3-5
years.
This $100M company is a division of Koch Industries, a $35B
organization and the 2nd largest privately held company in
the U.S. This division, headquartered in Wilmington, MA. is
currently seeking a talented engineering management professional
with reverse osmosis experience, to serve as a Project Manager
for it’s rapidly growing, $20M Systems Engineering and
Fabrication department.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Manages $1-8M+ KMS systems projects from
quotation, through the bid process, design, manufacture,
installation and start-up of a completely functional system
for a customer. Assures technical success of the project by
managing all mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, quality,
vendor, cost, quality and fabrication issues and schedules.
Full project cost management responsibilities. Timely planning
and execution of project schedules. Management of 2-3
concurrent projects. Initiate and manage the quality plan
for all projects. Communicate effectively with clients.
Solicit proposals from outside suppliers. Participate in
contract negotiations as part of an integrated sales team.
Provide on-site leadership for larger projects.
QUALIFICATIONS: BSME degree or BSCHE (with strong mechanical
aptitude and skills) is required. Requires 5-8 years of
combined, project engineering/project management experience
in a capital equipment field related to fluid separations.
Requires RO systems experience of 3-5 years! Demonstrated
ability to provide competitive solutions that meet the
current market needs. Ability to evaluate a specific
commercial opportunity and to develop a cost-effective
solution. (Please detail specific example(s) of each)
Knowledge of fluid handling equipment design (piping, valves,
pumps, controls) and functionality. Ability to develop
accurate cost estimates. Strong verbal and written
communication skills. Computer proficient; MS Project
experience a plus! Demonstrated ability to lead a matrixed
support team and outside vendors. Capable of working
independently, yet maintaining a team perspective.
Requires the ability to travel 10-15%.
CONTACT: Please respond by e-mail to:
Mr. Ted Furtado
CPC Management Search Inc.
1 State Street Suite 501
Providence, RI 02908
PHONE:(401) 273-5511
FAX: (401) 273.5573
mailto:tfurtado@ri.msi1.com
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