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"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 3, No. 51, March 19, 2001
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1533-449X
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Would You Have a Trade Show Booth With No Salesmen In It?
> O'Fallon Selects Black & Veatch for Water System Upgrade
> Suez Creates ONDEO
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Ask Tom! Column
> Pentair Pumps Selected for New York City Water Treatment Project
> Over 24,000+ Visitors and 256,000 Page Hits in February!
> Wireless Matrix to Team With Siemens Milltronics
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES....
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Contributors Wanted!
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Press releases, show announcements and industry news wanted!
Do you have company news, a new product, new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
DEADLINE for the next issue is: March 23rd.
We give full credit to contributing authors. Please send your
news article or press release via e-mail to:
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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O'Fallon Selects Black & Veatch for Water System Upgrade
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KANSAS CITY, MO (March 14, 2001) -- To maintain its momentum
as the fastest growing municipality in Missouri, the City of
O'Fallon, approximately 30 miles west of St. Louis, has awarded
Black & Veatch a contract to design new water supply system
and treatment facilities. Until now, the city has relied on
seven deep rock wells with aeration, softening, and chlorination.
By this fall, B&V will complete the design of six new wells in
an alluvial aquifer, a new 6 million gallon/day filtration plant,
a transmission main connecting the wells and the plant, and
a new 500,000-gallon finished water storage reservoir.
The new treatment plant will use reverse osmosis and
nanofiltration to soften the groundwater supply. "We chose
membrane technology for its ease of capacity expansion,
adaptation to remote operation, and resultant high water quality,
as well as the fact that it doesn't produce water-softening
residuals," said O'Fallon Project Manager Monte Ellis. "Black
& Veatch has considerable experience in applying this advanced
technology, which will enable us to comply with current and
future water quality regulations."
Construction of the $13 million project is scheduled to begin
late this year, and O'Fallon's new water system is expected to
be operational by early 2003.
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a global engineering and construction firm
specializing in the fields of water, energy, and information
technology. The company provides complete engineering, procurement,
construction, architectural, financial, asset management, and
management consulting services for utilities, industry, and
government agencies. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri,
the employee-owned company has more than 90 offices worldwide.
For more information contact:
Ms. Linda Bond
BLACK & VEATCH
8400 Ward Parkway
Kansas City, MO 64114
Telephone 913-458-3124
Fax 913-458-3730
Web site: http://www.bv.com/
mailto:bondls@bv.com
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Suez Creates ONDEO
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PARIS, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Suez, the world leader in
energy, water, waste management and communication services,
announced today the creation of ONDEO. The move represents
the formation of the world's strongest and most comprehensive
water solutions group, as well as a key step of an aggressive
growth strategy to increase revenues 60% between 1999 and 2004.
With annual revenues of 9.1 billion euros in 2000 ($8.5 billion),
60,000 employees and a presence in 130 countries, ONDEO offers
a full range of solutions to meet the water-related needs of
cities, consumers and industries.
To expand its already leading market share, ONDEO is implementing
a growth strategy focusing on both internal and external opportunities.
Suez has united its existing water activities -- as well as a
newly established company that provides industrial water solutions
-- under a single global brand, ONDEO. Effective today, ONDEO's
water solutions organization consists of the following companies:
-ONDEO Services -- market leader in water management services
to cities (resources, drinking water, sanitation services),
formerly operating under the company name Lyonnaise des Eaux;
-ONDEO Nalco -- market leader in water treatment and process
chemicals for industries, formerly operating under the name Nalco;
-ONDEO Degremont -- water treatment specialist and market leader
in turnkey engineering, formerly operating under the name Degremont;
-ONDEO Industrial Solutions -- a new company created to satisfy
a full range of industrial water needs.
No layoffs are expected as a result of the creation of ONDEO.
Commenting on the creation of ONDEO, Gerard Mestrallet, Chairman
and CEO of Suez, said: "The creation of ONDEO, one of Suez's core
businesses, is a major milestone in our history. We are creating
today the world's premier water solutions group whose scale, global
reach, and financial resources are without equal."
Gerard Payen, Chairman and CEO of ONDEO commented: "In ONDEO,
we have created a group possessing the expertise, financial
resources and research and development capabilities required to
provide customized solutions to our millions of customers
worldwide. We expect ONDEO to dramatically increase its market
share in the fast-growing water services industry." Gerard Payen
added: "Under one name, ONDEO, we are of one mission, which
is to be the premier provider of sustainable water-related
solutions and services worldwide, through long-term partnerships
that benefit our customers, communities, employees and the
environment."
SOURCE Suez/ONDEO
Web Site: http://www.ondeo.com/
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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:
"Water Quality and Treatment
Handbook", 5th Edition
by Raymond D. Letterman (Editor), AWWA, Larry W. Mays (Editor)
Hardcover, 1248 pages, 5th edition, 1999
"Distribution Valves: Selection, Installation, Field Testing &
Maintenance"
by Todd Shimoda, K. Faller, P. Murray (editors)
Paperback, April 1996
"AWWA Standards Complete Set/No
49000" (Pamphlet Series)
Amer Water Works Assn
Hardcover, January 1995
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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Ask Tom Column!
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THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"In Control: Considerations for Control Systems"
by Dan Capano, DTS, Inc.
You can read Dan's article at:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/asktom.htm
PAST Ask Tom! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
Web Address for Ask Tom! Archive is:
http://www.waterandwastewater.com/www_services/ask_tom_archive/toc.htm
-- WE NEED YOUR GUEST ARTICLES --
Do you have an area of expertise in water treatment, have you
solved a difficult wastewater problem? You too, can be an Ask Tom! guest author!
Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself (the
old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article
to the Ask Tom! Column.
For more information, please contact Tom Keenan at:
info@nesa.ie
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Pentair Pumps Selected for New York City Water Treatment Project
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ST. PAUL, Minn., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Pentair (NYSE: PNR)
today announced that the Pentair Pump Group, a unit of the
company's Water Technologies segment, has received a multi-
million dollar contract for the installation of wastewater
pumping equipment slated for a major municipal treatment plant
in New York City. Engineering work on the project will begin
immediately, with delivery of the pumps expected over the course
of the next two years.
Each of the eight Fairbanks Morse brand pumps on the project
weighs over ten tons, stands more that 12 feet high, and can
handle more than 50,000 gallons per minute. For energy
conservation, they will be driven by high-efficiency electric
controlled by variable frequency drives. In addition to the
main pumps, 19 large sludge pumps and 10 smaller, specialized
pumps round out the Pentair contract.
The project reflects the growing trend for infrastructure
spending to upgrade municipal fresh water and wastewater
systems across the United States. Richard J. Cathcart,
president of Pentair's Water Technologies segment, notes
that the EPA estimates a need for $150 billion dollars in
spending over the next 20 years to ensure safe drinking
water in America's cities.
"This job, together with another recently completed New York
City project, round out more than $10 million in municipal
business that the Pentair group has been awarded in the last
two years on the Eastern seaboard alone," Cathcart said.
Fairbanks Morse Pump, located in Kansas City, has a long
history as a manufacturer of custom-built water and wastewater
pumping equipment for municipal applications. Pentair's
Water Technologies segment has expanded beyond its original
pump business to become a diversified, global water equipment
business that delivered compound annual growth of 45 percent
in sales and 55 percent in profits from 1995 through 2000.
Pentair ( http://www.pentair.com ) is a St. Paul-based
manufacturer whose core businesses compete in tools, water
technologies, and enclosures markets. The company employs
13,000 people in more than 50 locations around the world.
For more information contact:
Mr. Mark Cain
Pentair
Telephone: 651-639-5278
Web Site: http://www.pentair.com/
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Wireless Matrix to Team With Siemens Milltronics
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CALGARY, Alberta--(Business Wire)--March 21, 2001--Wireless
Matrix Corporation (TSE:WRX.) and Siemens Milltronics Process
Instruments Inc. are pleased to announce that they have entered
into a co-operation Agreement for the joint development and
provision of Wireless Matrix' industry-leading IP Anywhere(R)
services to specific sectors of the global water monitoring
and remote inventory monitoring market.
The Agreement provides the framework for the relationship
between the companies. Under the terms of the Agreement,
Siemens Milltronics and Wireless Matrix will work co-operatively
to offer customers in the potable and waste water and remote
inventory monitoring markets the ability to move data from
Siemens Milltronics monitoring and control devices into an
enterprise-wide format as provided through IP Anywhere. The
companies will work together to identify potential opportunities
for marketing and selling of IP Anywhere in conjunction with
Siemens Milltronics technology, and will develop independent
and joint business functions for the successful delivery of
IP Anywhere services to targeted markets. IP Anywhere will be
distributed by Siemens Milltronics and provided to customers
under the Siemens brand name.
Siemens Milltronics has annual sales of approximately $80
million of level measurement instrumentation, with
approximately 500,000 points of measurement installed
worldwide. Given the relatively new nature of the remote
inventory monitoring market, it is not known what percentage
of the aggregate level sensing market is available to be
targeted with remote inventory monitoring services. While
global numbers for the water market are not available, North
America is believed to have approximately 190,000 public
water treatment facilities and 22,000 wastewater treatment
facilities.
"As with Schlumberger in global oil and gas, it has been and
continues to be core to our business strategy to address our
target markets through partnerships with incumbent global
industry leaders. Clearly, Siemens Milltronics is such a company,"
said Dr. J.T. Knight, Chief Executive Officer of Wireless Matrix.
"In the short term, there is clear customer demand and strong
economics underlying this partnership. Remote inventory monitoring
is a prominent current market, and we believe over the longer
term that water will emerge as the next precious fluid on this
planet and thereby constitute a key IP Anywhere market. We
also believe we can readily leverage the mobile wireless data
expertise of our Norcom Networks business unit to drive
additional revenue for logistics and mobile workforce management
applications in these markets."
About SIEMENS MILLTRONICS
Siemens Milltronics Process Instruments Inc., a division of
Siemens AG, is a leading provider of sophisticated measurement
instrumentation used by the water and wastewater, aggregate,
cement, mining, chemical, milling, food and other process
industries. Principal product lines include level measurement,
dry solids flow measurement, and process protection devices.
About WIRELESS MATRIX
Wireless Matrix, together with its wholly owned subsidiary
Norcom Networks Corporation, is a leading developer and
value-added provider of fixed and mobile wireless data
services to corporate industrial markets. Wireless Matrix
provides services to the energy, utilities, environmental,
transportation, field service, and logistics sectors. This
includes fixed assets such as oil and gas wells, compressor
stations, pipelines, fluid storage tanks, utility meters, and
environmental meters, as well as mobile transportation, field
service, and logistics assets.
For more information contact:
Mr. Chris Schnarr
Wireless Matrix Corporation
Telephone: 403-250-3949
Web site: http://www.wirelessmatrixcorp.com/
mailto:chriss@wirelessmatrixcorp.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. Allen needs help with leuconostoc microorganism:
We operate a liquid sweetner facility. All of our Industrial
Waste Water is collected into a 800 gallon underground pit
then pumped to a 4000 gallon holding tank where it is treated
with Sodium Hydroxide to raise the pH and then discharged to
the city waste water treatment facility.
Our problem seems to come from a micro organism called Leuconostoc
which attaches itself to the bottom of the pits and holding tank.
It releases a foul smelling discharge which resembles mop strings.
We treat it with a strong bleach solution to shock and pool
chlorine tablets to help maintain. As the weather gets warm and
more sweetner is introduced to the system the bacterium flourishes.
We are looking into finding a biocide which will kill or control
to a better degree the biomass or bacterium. We are also placed
under special restrictions by the city as we can not disrupt
the operations of the waste water treatment plant with chemicals
we use. If anyone has any suggestions please help.
Thanks,
Justin Allen
mailto:jcallen@iname.com
Mr. Love needs an oil/water separator:
I am looking for a packaged unit oil/water separator for
inground installation. This unit is to be used in line with
a sand trap. The origin of the water is a sandblasting and
cleaning bay used to prep roadway equipment for repainting.
Tom Love
mailto:tomlove4@home.com
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of a 24-inch-in-diameter Slurrycup grit
classifier with a one-cubic-yard Grit Snail dewatering unit,
located at the Florence, Oregon WWTP. Eutek® Systems, Inc.
meets the challenges of separating and classifying grit as
small as 50 micron (270 mesh), while providing secondary
washing to minimize organic content. The 'all hydraulic'
Slurrycup has no internal moving parts, increasing operating
reliability. Applications include grit washing, snail shell
removal, and primary sludge degritting.
Photo courtesy of Mr. Mike Gregg, EMA Marketing
http://www.eutek.com/
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From the Job Fair
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CONSULTANT; STANDARDS IN WASTE WATER TREATMENT BY-PRODUCT
Consultant with extensive knowledge of the quality of by-product
from sewage treatment plants, how it is used and placed, and
how to educate the public about issues relating to assuring
standards in US, by year 2020, or before.
Project is ready to submit for funding, except for budget and
identity and credentials of specific consultant(s). Thus, pay
depends on what consultant of choice will charge and funding.
Project expected to begin Fall, 2001. Other opportunities may
materialize before this, such as for other projects.
Please sent responses to E-mail:
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Fax: 978/927-1218.
Inquiries by telephone accepted, if brief.
Ms. Anne Montague
Executive Director
Managing Earth's Resources, Inc.
131 Dodge (1)
Beverly, MA 01915
Web site: http://www.managingearth.org/
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