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NSF/EPA ETV Center
Verifies Arsenic Reduction Systems
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 25
/PRNewswire/ -- NSF International verified the first drinking water
technologies for arsenic reduction through the Environmental
Technology Verification (ETV) Drinking Water Systems Center. NSF is
the world leader in standards development, product certification and
education services for public health and safety. The ETV Drinking
Water Systems Center started in 1995 as a pilot program created
through NSF's agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to provide independent performance testing for drinking
water technologies. In October 2000, the pilot was officially
established as a Center through which NSF develops protocols and
tests technologies to verify manufacturer claims, such as arsenic,
nitrate or microbiological contaminant reduction or inactivation.
NSF
verified the following products for arsenic reduction: Watermark
Technologies LLC's eVOX Model 5 Removal of Arsenic by Coagulation -
Filtration; TFC-ULP4 Reverse Osmosis Membrane Module by Koch
Membrane Systems; CPS100CPT Coagulation And Filtration System by
Kinetico Inc.; and ESPA2-4040 Reverse Osmosis Membrane Element
Module by Hydranautics. These products produced water with arsenic
levels at less than 5 micrograms per liter. This water quality is
better than the World Health Organization's recommendations and the
EPA's requirements for drinking water.
"These four arsenic treatment
technologies were designed for small systems," said Bruce
Bartley, Manager of the ETV Drinking Water Systems Center.
"Small communities historically have the most difficulty
affording technologies to meet new regulations. Our independent test
results should help them choose the most cost-effective
technologies." NSF International, a not-for-profit
organization, is dedicated to improving public health, safety and
protection of the environment.
NSF offers a broad range of services
to companies in over 83 countries, including accredited food
equipment certification; comprehensive food safety and quality
systems auditing; HACCP-9000 registration and verification;
certification for water distribution and treatment systems;
certification for dietary supplements and nonfood compounds;
management systems registration; and toxicology consulting. NSF also
provides public-health education through its Center for Public
Health Education.
NSF is a World Health Organization
Collaborating Centre for Drinking Water Safety and Treatment and
Food Safety. Founded in 1944, NSF is headquartered in Ann Arbor,
Mich., and has offices and laboratories around the world.
For more information about the
EPA-Funded ETV Drinking Water Systems Center, contact Bruce Bartley
at 734-769-5148 or bartley@nsf.org
.
BROOKS AIR FORCE BASE,
Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2001--Pacific Environmental
Services, Inc. (PES), a MACTEC Company, is an awardee under a
five-year contract with a Program Ceiling of $250 million, awarded
by the Air Force Institute of Environment, Safety, and Occupational
Health Risk Analysis (AFIERA) at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas.
Under
the contract, PES and the MACTEC Family of Companies will provide
comprehensive, environmental engineering and occupational health and
safety support to AFIERA for its Worldwide Environment, Safety and
Occupational Health (ESOH) AE and DoD Mission Support. Applicable
contracted services include support in ten areas: drinking water,
wastewater, hazardous waste, air quality, pollution prevention, risk
assessment, restoration, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and
radiation/health physics.
"We are extremely pleased to
have been selected to continue and to expand our successful
partnership with AFIERA and the Air Force," said PES' Program
Manager Paul D. Koch. "We have demonstrated our performance and
our commitment to AFIERA and to our mutual customers in our two
previous contracts, spanning the past 12 years. We believe our
selection reflects not only AFIERA's confidence in our ability to
perform, but also the professional working relationships we have
developed with AFIERA and our Air Force customers," Koch added.
"We now intend to aggressively expand our opportunities and
services worldwide, by capitalizing on the added capabilities
provided by our sister companies in the MACTEC family -- Harding ESE
and MACTEC Constructors."
PES is a national environmental
engineering, industrial hygiene, and computer consulting firm, with
a 30-year record in providing services for industrial, commercial,
and government clients. MACTEC, headquartered in Golden, Colorado,
acquired PES in May 2000, making PES a wholly owned subsidiary of
MACTEC. With more than 2,400 employees located in 70 offices
nationwide and annual revenues of $325 million, MACTEC, together
with its subsidiaries, ranked fourth in the nation's top
`All-Environmental Firms,' as reported in the June 2001 issue of
Engineering News-Record.
PES has formed a strong team of
subcontractors to meet the challenges of providing worldwide
coverage and expanded engineering, remediation, and occupational
safety and health capabilities. URS, through its experience and
reputation with Air Force facilities in CONUS, Europe and the
Pacific, adds important remedial-action capabilities, worldwide
reach, and unparalleled staff depth and breadth to the PES Team.
Rounding out the PES Team are: Humantech, a small business that
specializes in ergonomics; Radiological Physics and Associates, a
small business providing radiological testing and monitoring; and
two laboratories -- EMAX, a California-based SDB/WOB firm, and
Analytics, a Virginia-based small business.
For more information contact: Pacific Environmental Services, Inc.
a MACTEC Company
Mr. Dave Hicks
Telephone: 303-273-5051
Email: dshicks@mactec.com Web site: http://www.mactec.com/
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October 2001 - Stochos released a new
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User's Meeting. CQC Datalink provides easy selection of data from an
ODBC database for seamless formatting and integration into Stochos'
off-line SPC\SQC analysis software, Custom/QC for Windows.
CQC Datalink has an easy-to-use
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In-Plant Water
Every Drop Counts
Growing Trend Toward Reuse and “Zero
Liquid Discharge”
Palm Desert, Calif., Oct. 23, 2001—
As water costs increase and supplies dwindle, more and more
industries are turning to high-tech water treatment systems that
recycle and reuse water within plant production processes. Some of
these systems include “closed loop” technology—known as Zero
Liquid Discharge (ZLD)—that recycles all in-plant water streams
and discharges none to the environment.
The trend is benefiting companies
like USFilter, Palm Desert-based supplier of total water management
systems and services, which reports a wave of new bookings for ZLD
and other industrial water reuse systems.
“We’ve booked more than $80
million in ZLD and industrial water reuse systems during the current
fiscal year,” says Frank Firsching, president of USFilter’s
systems group. “We have many more in the pilot testing and
proposal stages.”
One of the new projects is for
Constellation Energy Group’s (NYSE: CEG) new High Desert Power
Project in Victorville, Calif. The 750-megawatt plant will be the
first new major power plant to be built in Southern California in
more than a decade.
USFilter will provide a wide range of
integrated technologies to meet the entire scope of water treatment
needs for the power plant, including pre-treatment of raw water,
treatment of cooling tower blow-down, and treatment and recycle of
all wastewater. Commercial operation is scheduled for July 2003.
“Power plants and other industrial
operations can require large quantities of water,” Firsching
explained. “It takes 8 to 9 gallons of water to produce just one
kilowatt hour of electricity. It can take 50,000 to 100,000 gallons
of water to manufacture an automobile.”
Firsching said USFilter’s ZLD
systems use high-end technologies such as membrane filtration to
treat raw water to high-purity standards, to facilitate use in
industrial processes. Next, the wastewater from these industrial
processes is treated with similar technology, restoring it to a
contamination free status to enable re-use.
As a result, industrial plants
installing ZLD systems can expect to recover close to 100 percent of
water that would otherwise be discharged to environment as
wastewater. “That’s very good news in areas where accessible
clean water is becoming a scarce resource,” Firsching said.
“As ZLD and water reuse systems
become more common, and the true costs of clean water are
recognized, the technology becomes increasingly more feasible and
cost effective. We expect to see more projects of this type.”
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Under
the contract, PES and the MACTEC Family of Companies will provide
comprehensive, environmental engineering and occupational health and
safety support to AFIERA for its Worldwide Environment, Safety and
Occupational Health (ESOH) AE and DoD Mission Support. Applicable
contracted services include support in ten areas: drinking water,
wastewater, hazardous waste, air quality, pollution prevention, risk
assessment, restoration, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and
radiation/health physics.
"...provides
step-by-step practical calculations & procedures in many
environmental control areas for easy understanding &
applications, and helps engineers respond to very complicated
environmental control problems."
