SENECA FALLS, NY -- Douglas J. Bingler and Patrick “Rusty” J. Simeone recently received the Goulds Pumps Golden Eagle Award – the company’s oldest and most prestigious honor for management, sales and marketing excellence.

“During the past year and throughout their careers with ITT, Doug Bingler and Rusty Simone have continuously demonstrated exemplary leadership and won the respect of their colleagues for stellar sales and service performance despite market uncertainty and industry volatility,” said Dennis Coggins, Vice President of Sales for ITT Water Technology – himself a 1988 Golden Eagle award winner.

Now in its 22nd year, the Goulds Pumps Golden Eagle Award is given to individuals with at least 10 years sales, marketing and customer service experience with ITT, and whose sales or service performance exceeds expectations.

Bingler joined the company in 1995 as president of Goulds Pumps, Water Technology Group, and became president of ITT Water Technology, Inc. in January, 2002.

He holds over a dozen patents relating to centrifugal, sliding vane and magnetic drive pumps, flow meters and fluid systems.

Bingler received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami in 1969, and an MBA from Temple University in 1980. Today, he’s a golf and alpine skiing enthusiast, and plays the role of “gentleman farmer” in his spare time.

Rusty Simeone joined Goulds Pumps in 1977. He was promoted to Sales Rep in 1978 and Product Specialist in 2002 – both in Georgia. Since January 2004 Rusty has been based in Florida as Manager of Market Development for the South East Region, reporting to Jim Heid.

Rusty’s expertise and strengths have helped the company grow stronger with results well above forecasts over the years. Due to his efforts the past two years, the region has achieved a substantial increase in pump sales from every distributor he has represented.

He also orchestrated the sale and installation of the company’s innovative variable speed pump controller – the Goulds Pumps Aquavar® – at a world-renowned theme park. The Aquavar product is known for its pump protection, energy saving features, and ability to maintain consistent pressure in a water system.

Simeone also oversaw the sign ups of dealers to the company’s Goulds Professional Dealer Association – the industry’s oldest and largest association of independent water systems professionals.

Simeone received a BS in Business Administration from the University of Denver in 1976.

ITT Industries, Inc. supplies advanced technology products and services in key markets including: fluid and water management including water treatment; defense communication, opto-electronics, information technology and services; electronic interconnects and switches; and other specialty products.

Source: www.itt.com

Hach Acquires Marsh-McBirney

Loveland, CO -- Hach Company is pleased to announce the acquisition of Marsh-McBirney and welcomes Marsh-McBirney to the Hach family of products. By combining both companies’ strengths with a shared commitment to accuracy, reliability and service, the new partnership will help further provide support of their leading edge products for the benefit of customers worldwide.

For more than 34 years, Marsh-McBirney has been highly regarded for its innovative, reliable and accurate flow measuring technologies. The Frederick, Maryland, based company’s Flo-Dar™ Flowmeter, winner of the prestigious 2005 Innovative Technology Award from the Water Environment Federation, is the first sewer flow monitoring technology that provides accurate velocity and flow measurements without making contact with sewage.

The Hach Company, started in 1947, first gained major success through the development of a simplified titration method for measuring hardness in drinking water. From there, the company’s product line expanded to include more parameters and instruments as the company continued to bring analytical chemistry out of the laboratory and into the workplace the world over. With the incorporation of American Sigma in 2000, Hach expanded beyond chemistry into flow measurement technology. Today, with the capability to measure over 100 different parameters, Hach is considered the first name in water monitoring.

“Water monitoring and analysis is Hach's top focus. Marsh-McBirney brings strong technical capabilities, that, combined with Hach’s global reach and world-class manufacturing, distribution and customers service capabilities creates a unique position to best serve the growing demand for flow measurement products and technologies worldwide,” said Tom Joyce, President of Hach.

“We are delighted about our partnering with Hach,” said Marsh-McBirney CEO/President and Founder, Larry Marsh. “Our companies have a similar approach — success through a single-minded commitment to providing superior technologies and service. Combining our forces is an exceptional catalyst for the future growth of our technologies and business.”

The Marsh-McBirney full pipe flow meter products will also complement Hach’s sister company, McCrometer, further enhancing the global technical, business, and service capabilities of the full pipe flow meter portion of both McCrometer’s and Marsh-McBirney’s product line.

For more information please contact Hach Company at (800) 227-4224 x 6913,
or visit www.hach.com

One Rotary Sludge Dryer Benefits Many WWTPs

Corona, CA -- The Clearwater Cogeneration Wastewater Treatment Plant is using a Sernagiotto directly heated sludge dryer from the Water Technology division of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S) to process 8 million gallons per day of combined municipal and industrial hydraulic influent, as well as sludge, from the city's three other WWTPs.

Since coming online four months ago, the dryer system has saved the Clearwater cogen plant considerable wet cake hauling costs and helped it meet USEPA's strict 40 CFR Part 503 regulation. The Sernagiotto dryer system is part of a combined system that produces electricity and dry, dewatered biosolids by using the hot exhaust gas to recover energy from the combined-cycle cogeneration turbine. This is the first Sernagiotto dryer installation in the U.S.

According to Frank Garza, plant supervisor, the dryer will reduce the normal wet cake handling to 20 percent of the present production volume and thus, save the city money. It will also prevent odors that could have been a major problem because of the plant's location within city limits.

The Clearwater cogen plant will ultimately sell all of the effluent water produced and beneficially reuse the Class A biosolids for land applications. In turn, the community will use the produced electricity, and the City of Corona will sell any excess to the electrical grid.

The dryer system is designed to evaporate 8,800 lbs of water per hour from the wet cake produced by the belt filter press dewatering system. It includes a belt conveyor system that will either direct cake to the dryer wet feed silo or to a truck loading station for disposal. The dryer contains the latest safety sub-systems based on years of experience with Siemens' European engineering and manufacturing partner, Sernagiotto. The dryer uses a regenerative thermal oxidizer that reduces the potential odor problem to harmless CO2 and water.

Siemens Water Technologies delivers cost-effective, reliable water and wastewater treatment systems and services to municipal, industrial, commercial and institutional customers worldwide. The division "Water Technologies" is part of Siemens' Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S), which provides innovative solutions and services designed to improve competitiveness in processing and manufacturing industries and in infrastructure.

Source: www.usfilter.com

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Our Municipal and State Services (MSS) operation is seeking a Supervising Wastewater Engineer for our Chicago, Illinois location. This position is accountable for applying intensive, complex and diversified knowledge of engineering techniques, procedures and criteria to assist in facility design, problem analysis, feasibility investigations and construction management. This position interacts throughout the organization internally and with clients, members of business and professional organizations, and vendors externally.

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1. This position is accountable for applying intensive, complex and diversified knowledge of engineering techniques, procedures and criteria to assist in facility design, problem analysis, feasibility investigations and construction management. This position interacts throughout the organization internally and with clients, members of business and professional organizations, and vendors externally.
2. Perform detailed engineering analysis and design for assigned projects, using judgment in developing and evaluating alternatives on moderately complex assignments; develops plans and specifications; provide technical direction to other engineers.
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