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Texas County to require NSF
Wastewater Monitoring
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Arbor, MI and Houston, TX -- In response to the critical
need for proper treatment of residential and commercial
wastewater, and the environmental and public health benefits
of properly functioning systems, NSF has partnered with
Harris County to adopt the NSF Onsite Wastewater Monitoring
Program.
Systems that treat wastewater
onsite rather than being delivered to a central treatment
facility often receive less frequent maintenance and
service, and improperly maintained systems can pose a
serious risk to public health and the environment. The
benefits of the new NSF program are to provide service
providers, health departments, business and homeowners
independent monitoring and recording of onsite wastewater
system service and maintenance.
According to John R. Blount, PE,
assistant director, Planning & Operations for Harris County,
"The NSF Onsite Monitoring Program will enable Harris County
to be more effective in tracking treatment system
maintenance and alarm activation/response, while at the same
time reducing our overall costs. As public health officials,
it is our responsibility to ensure the people of Harris
County receive the best possible performance from their
treatment systems. Knowing routine service and maintenance
are being performed provides that reassurance, and having
the NSF program allows us to manage it from our office
rather than from the field."
Harris County, TX is the third
largest county in the United States with a population of
over 4 million. It is the first county in the U.S. to
require all commercial systems to use the NSF monitoring
program, thus reducing groundwater contamination and harmful
impact on the environment.
As of October 1, 2006,
residential onsite wastewater treatment systems equipped
with the NSF Onsite Monitoring Program will be granted a
reduction in maintenance requirements. This reduction, which
includes the elimination of sampling and analysis
requirements, will save service providers and homeowners
time and cost.
With the NSF Onsite Monitoring
Program, onsite wastewater service providers, installers,
homeowners, and public health officials throughout the
country are now able to log on to a secured NSF website and
immediately know:
-if and when treatment systems
have been serviced,
-when maintenance is scheduled to occur,
-when alarms are activated and responded to, and by whom,
-and when service contracts are set to expire.
Combining NSF's credibility and
history in third party, independent services with RMSYS, a
Texas-based company that has extensive knowledge and
expertise in remote telemetry and critical onsite system
information and tracking, allows for a new service that is
unlike any other available to date. The service can be used
with all wastewater systems to immediately notify service
providers of any alarm activity via email, cell phone or
pager text message.
This new technology, free to the
regulatory community, allows public health officials to
effectively monitor service and alarm status from their
office, as well as have routine system tracking of the
locations of onsite systems, type of systems installed and
responsible maintenance provider.
"NSF has a long history of
testing, auditing, monitoring and certifying wastewater
treatment systems," said Tom Brursema, general manager, NSF
Water and Wastewater Treatment Unit Programs. "The NSF
Onsite Monitoring Program is yet another example of our
ongoing commitment to help ensure protection of public
health in Harris County, and throughout the world."
Consumers seeking additional
information on wastewater system maintenance should visit
www.nsf.org/consumer/wastewater_treatment_systems/
For more information about the
program or to access the operational website for a
demonstration, contact:
Paul Jackson
Telephone: 813-907-2590
Email: prjackson@nsf.org
PDF:
http://www.nsf.org/business/wastewater_treatment/Onsite_5.0.pdf
Web site: http://www.nsf.org/
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BOSS Tank Names New President
 Oswego,
KS -- BOSS Tank announced the appointment of John Farris as
President, effective October 16, 2006. Farris, a native of
Oswego, has more than thirty years experience in the storage
industry. He will be responsible for guiding and directing
all aspects of BOSS Tank’s business: engineering, sales,
marketing and operations.
“John is a true veteran of the
tank business,” said Barbara Storment, Sales and Marketing
Manager at BOSS Tank. She cited his experience, standards,
ethics, vision and leadership. Prior to joining BOSS Tank,
he was President of All State Tank Manufacturing in Grove,
OK. He has been President of A.O. Smith Engineered Storage
Products Company and President of Peabody TecTank, Inc.
“Boss Tank’s quality initiatives
and unique manufacturing processes bring exciting new
solutions to the storage marketplace,” Farris said. He
expressed his enthusiasm for the opportunity to work with
BOSS Tank personnel, many of whom he has worked with in the
past. “It’s the people who make a company and the people in
this organization are poised to achieve remarkable growth,”
he said.
BOSS
Tank manufactures field-erected smoothwall bolted and
shop-welded tanks and silos for both dry bulk and liquid
industrial storage. Markets serviced by BOSS Tank include
the plastics, mineral, chemical and food industries on the
dry side and potable water and water treatment for
municipalities, industrial process water and fire protection
in liquids.
For more information contact:
BOSS TANK
12057 West 59 Highway
Oswego, KS 67356
Telephone: 620-795-2143
Web site:
http://www.bosstank.com/ |
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German Biogas 'Energy Park' Buys
40 GE Engines
Jenbach, Austria -- Representing its largest order of
Jenbacher biogas engines and the largest biogas power plant
in the world, GE Energy is supplying 40 high- efficiency,
JMS 312 units to renewable energy developer, NAWARO
Bioenergie AG, Leipzig, for an agricultural biogas project
in eastern Germany, near the Polish border.
Each
of GE’s 500 kW Jenbacher engines is being installed in
separate plants to support the new combined heat and power
(CHP) bioenergy park “Klarsee,” adjacent to farmland in the
town of Penkun in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. GE’s 40 units will
utilize biogas created during the fermentation of
agricultural waste, including maize, crop residues and
animal manure. Residual material in the digester can be used
as a valuable fertilizer.
Normally, agricultural wastes decompose gradually to create
methane, a potent greenhouse gas. However, by capturing the
gas and using it as fuel, less of it is free to escape into
the atmosphere.
In
all, GE’s Jenbacher engines will provide 20 MW of
electricity and 22 MW in thermal output. While the engines’
electricity will be sold to the local grid, a separate,
specially designed heat recovery system will deliver the
engines’ thermal output to an adjacent fertilizer production
facility on the farmland.
“GE is
very pleased to support this important biogas project, which
will help Germany expand its renewable energy capacity and
support the European Commission’s goal to develop a more
modern, more energy efficient CHP infrastructure,” said
Prady Iyyanki, General Manager of GE’s Jenbacher gas engine
business. “This milestone, 40-unit Jenbacher order will help
us address our customer’s pressing energy and environmental
challenges.”
Each
biogas plant has a maximum electrical output of 500 kW.
Therefore, the projects qualify under Germany’s Renewable
Energy Law (EEG) for “feed-in” tariffs and “CHP bonus
incentives” for fully utilizing the engines’ heat. Under
EEG, biogas plants are guaranteed a minimum price for
supplying electricity for a period of 20 years.
GE’s
biogas engine activities in Germany began in 1990, when the
first Jenbacher biogas CHP unit to be sold in Germany began
generating power. GE has delivered about 560 Jenbacher
biogas-fueled gas engines worldwide, demonstrating the GE
technology’s quality, long life-cycle, reliability and
availability.
For
more information, contact:
Dennis Murphy
GE Energy
Telephone: +1 678-844-6948
Email:
dennis.murphy@ps.ge.com
Web site:
http://www.gepower.com/
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GL&V
Acquires the COPA Water Subsidiaries
 Montreal,
Canada -- Groupe Laperriиre & Verreault Inc. (GL&V) is pleased
to announce that it has acquired from CDS Technologies Limited,
a holding company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, all
of the share capital of its COPA Water subsidiaries specializing
in wastewater treatment solutions, namely COPA Limited located
in the United Kingdom and COPA WATER Pty Ltd. located in
Australia. The transaction was completed for a cash
consideration of $21 million, subject to certain adjustment
clauses.
This acquisition will provide the
Water Treatment Group with additional revenues of approximately
$60 million on an annualized basis, as well as approximately 140
employees working primarily in sales and engineering. COPA
Australia operates a sales and engineering office, whereas COPA
UK operates a similar office along with an assembly plant. COPA
Water also has licensees strategically located around the world.
Founded in 1994, CDS Technologies,
through COPA Water has developed and brought to market a diverse
range of equipment and processes designed for various stormwater
management and wastewater treatment applications. These products
have gained market recognition for their innovative engineering
and superior reliability. In addition, COPA UK holds the
exclusive licence for the Kubota Submerged Membrane (MBR) for
the municipal, commercial and industrial wastewater treatment
markets in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
As part of the Enviroquip acquisition
earlier this year, GL&V acquired the exclusive licence to market
the Kubota membrane in the US municipal wastewater market, which
gave GL&V exclusive rights to this technology in the whole of
North America, the Company having held the exclusive licence in
Canada since 2004. The Company also holds a non-exclusive
licence with the Japanese multinational for the municipal market
in India. The submerged membrane wastewater treatment process is
increasingly in demand by municipalities and is experiencing
faster growth than the water treatment industry as a whole.
Richard Verreault of GL&V said,
“First, it meets one of Eimco Water Technologies’ primary
objectives, which is to acquire the intellectual proprietary
rights to advanced technologies that are complementary to our
existing wastewater treatment solutions, thereby expanding our
offering across the process flowsheet for global supply.
Further, this acquisition strengthens our relationship with
Kubota, increases our know-how in submerged membrane technology,
and will allow us to build synergies among our sales teams in
North America, India and the United Kingdom. Finally, it expands
our Water Treatment Group’s geographic coverage in Australia and
New Zealand while building its presence in the United Kingdom.
These markets offer significant growth potential given their
environmental legislation and government programs.”
GL&V's Water Treatment Group, Eimco
Water Technologies, specializes in the development and marketing
of equipment for the treatment of municipal and industrial
wastewater, drinking water and process water used in various
industrial processes, as well as water intake screening
solutions for power stations and refineries.
Web site:
http://www.glv.com/
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the sodium metabisulfite? What other biocide options
are available?
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PCI International
sschellhase@pci-intl.com
Mr. Harris needs help starting up an anaerobic digester:
I need to start up an
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in earlier versions of MOP 11, but the most recent version
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should happen, but would like to get directly to specifics.
I need information like - the
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start feeding sludge, etc. When to dose chemicals, etc.
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Fair: Wastewater Plant
Operator Needed - Moody AFB (GA)
National O&M, Inc., a
nationwide provider of water and wastewater services for the
Department of Defense is growing. We currently have
opportunities for experienced water and wastewater operators
at Moody AFB (Valdosta, Georgia).
Operators at Moody AFB will
oversee the operation of the water and wastewater facilities
to include performing routine daily operation checks,
sampling, inspecting lift stations, troubleshooting,
recordkeeping and other essential duties.
Requirements:
Candidates with experience with nano-filtration water
plants, trickling filters, PLCs and SCADA systems preferred.
Minimum of a State of Georgia Class 3 water and wastewater
certification required.
Salary: Negotiable -
Depending on qualifications and experience. National offers
competitive salaries and excellent benefits for its
workforce. National O&M, Inc. is an equal employment
opportunity employer.
For more information, please
contact:
Human Resources
Telephone: 540-345-9200 (Ext 302) or
Email:
spetrus@nationalom.com
Web site:
http://www.nationalom.com/
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