Kansas City, MO  - Black & Veatch and United Water New York today announced the completion of engineering, procurement and construction for United Water New York's Lake DeForest water treatment plant (WTP) upgrade. The project has increased the facility's capacity from 10 million gallons per day to 20 mgd, and incorporates AquaDAF treatment technology, an innovative high-rate dissolved air flotation process that uses air to float sediment and algae to the surface for removal to improve the quality of water provided to end users. This is the first application of AquaDAF technology in the United States.

"Increased demand, coupled with more stringent regulatory requirements for total organic carbon reduction and the presence of episodic algal blooms stretched the existing Lake DeForest water treatment facility to its limits," said Janine Witko, Black & Veatch New York area manager. "In order to address increased demand, treatment compliance and water reliability and consistency, United Water New York selected Black & Veatch to upgrade the Lake DeForest facility to a 20 mgd capacity plant using innovative treatment technology."

The new design incorporates AquaDAF technology, chemical feed system improvements, and associated electrical and instrumentation and control upgrades. As part of an integrated design-construction management delivery approach, Black & Veatch performed concept and detailed design, procured the major equipment and negotiated and managed the construction contracts.

"A key component of this project was maintaining operations at the existing Lake DeForest water treatment plant during construction and performance testing of the new process equipment," said Robert J. Iacullo, president of United Water New York. "The upgraded Lake DeForest treatment plant now allows us to treat more water during the heavy use periods in the summer. The best part for our customers is that they receive better tasting, higher quality water."

The Lake DeForest water treatment plant was designed and constructed in 1964 to produce five mgd. The AquaDAF treatment technology replaces the circular aerator basin, which was originally used to address taste and odor problems.

Black & Veatch also has incorporated AquaDAF in the recently completed design of a new 40 mgd water treatment plant as part of a comprehensive water supply program underway for the South San Joaquin Irrigation District in the California Central Valley.

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The Water Environment Research Foundation will release five new requests for proposals (RFPs) on November 17 that will provide $925,000 in funding for essential water quality research. A cooperative research grant from the U.S. EPA's Office of Water will provide funding for two of the research projects, which will help to protect and ensure the continuing safety of the nation's wastewater infrastructure. Proposals will be due January 16 for these two projects in order to expedite the availability of research results that are of critical need.

Three other projects will address environmental and sustainability issues, including projects on stormwater, multiple stressors, and water reuse. Proposals will be due February 6.

The five projects are:

• Security Measures for Computerized and Automated Systems (03-CTS-3S): Will provide guidance to utilities on securing and protecting automated systems. Will document currently available technology to sense and correct security breaches.
• Software Guidance for Assessing Vulnerability of Wastewater Infrastructure Systems (03-CTS-6S): Will provide a valuable software tool for utilities to better plan for, manage, and control risk associated with system vulnerability.
• Long-Term Study on Landscape Irrigation Using Household Graywater (03-CTS-18CO): Will provide quantitative evidence concerning the safety of graywater reuse for household landscape irrigation. Will support product use and disposal recommendations in graywater reuse systems.
• Risk Assessment of Separate Stormwater Microorganisms (03-SW-2): Will develop risk assessment guidance to enable more accurate evaluations of the actual problems associated with pathogens in stormwater. Will collect and evaluate existing microorganism guidance, will quantify stormwater microorganisms in typical discharges, and will describe associated health risks.
• Workshop on Multiple Stressors: Approaches, Information Gaps, and Tools (03-ECO-1): Will bring together leading researchers and managers to synthesize what is known about multiple stressors and to provide an assessment of gaps and recommendations for further study and evaluation.

WERF research is awarded through a competitive process and coordinated under contract through a staff-assigned project manager. WERF encourages submission of proposals from all qualified entities, including consulting firms, wastewater utilities, industrial firms, wastewater equipment manufacturers, universities, and non-profit organizations performing research in the water quality field.

The RFPs will be available on the WERF website at www.werf.org . To sign up to receive notification of availability, go to http://www.werf.org/community/email_signup.cfm .

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