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"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 29, October 9, 2000
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> "Add RealTime Fast-Chat to Your Web Site"
> Water District Experiments with Fish for Water Quality Testing
> USFilter & Service Systems International Announce Alliance
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Ridge Administration Announces $26.4 Million for Clean-Water
> We had over 14,000+ Visitors and 211,000 Page Hits in September!
> Montgomery Watson and Harza Engineering Announce Merger
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Water District Experiments with Fish for Water Quality Testing
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Briefing and tour of Orange County Water District's (OCWD)
Biomonitoring Demonstration Experiment. Three species of
fish - Japanese medaka, zebrafish and bluegill - are being
tested as possible water quality indicators for Orange
County's groundwater basin. The concept behind the experiment
is to use fish much like canaries were used in coal mines.
These fish are being evaluated over a nine-month exposure
period, in a facility is equipped with over 30 separate
aquariums, using continuous flow-through exposure. These
aquariums provide great visuals.
WHO: Orange County Water District with the support of the
National Water Research Institute.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 at 10:00 a.m. A tour
of the Biomonitoring Demonstration Project trailer will
follow a short presentation and explanation of the experiment.
WHERE: OCWD Field Headquarters, 4060 East La Palma, Anaheim,
Calif. 92807, (714) 378-5232.
The Biomonitoring Demonstration Experiment project uses
shallow groundwater - recently percolated from the Santa
Ana River - as the test water in a flow-through system,
to evaluate fish survival and growth. The control water
is dechlorinated local tap water. This experiment will
be helpful in evaluating the use of fish as a long-term
water quality monitoring tool.
The Orange County Water District is a special water agency
created by the California Legislature in 1933 to maintain
and manage the huge groundwater basin under northern Orange
County. The groundwater basin managed by OCWD supplies
75% of the water needs to more than 2 million residents
in the cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, Costa Mesa,
Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach,
Irvine, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Newport Beach, Orange,
Placentia, Santa Ana, Seal Beach, Stanton, Tustin,
Villa Park, Westminster and Yorba Linda.
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USFilter & Service Systems International Announce Alliance
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PALM DESERT, Calif. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 4
/PRNewswire/-- USFilter and Service Systems International
(OTC Bulletin Board: SVSY) have announced plans to form a
strategic alliance to market Service Systems' ultraviolet
disinfection technology for water and wastewater applications.
USFilter's Wallace and Tiernan Products group, Vineland, N.J.,
has signed a letter of intent to form an exclusive alliance,
in which Wallace and Tiernan Products will sell Service System's
Ultra Guard(R) advanced ultraviolet disinfection technology.
Joe Millen, executive vice president of USFilter, said the
alliance will ensure that USFilter remains a leader in this
segment of the water and wastewater treatment industry.
"The Wallace & Tiernan Products group has 85 years of continued
service to its customers for the supply of disinfection equipment
applying various technologies. With UV disinfection systems,
we will be even better positioned to serve an evolving market
need."
According to Ken Fielding, Service Systems president and CEO,
"The alliance will represent a major milestone in a string of
contract awards and independent third party validations of the
advantages, energy savings and superior performance of Ultra
Guard(R) treatment systems. The agreement will give Service
Systems access to an extensive sales and distribution network
associated with the world's premier water and wastewater company.
With these resources, we will be poised to rapidly expand our
business.
Steve Wirtel, vice president of municipal sales for USFilter,
added, "USFilter has been aware of the benefits of ultraviolet
disinfection and has been actively searching for a UV disinfection
technology to enhance our product and service offering to our
clients. We wanted to be sure that our choice not only met
short-term market demand, but also gave us sustainable value
for all of our corporate objectives, including existing and
future treatment plant operating contracts. The Ultra Guard(R)
technology is such a choice."
Ultra Guard(R) UV disinfection technology features a number of
innovations and improvements over conventional systems. Among
these are:
-- Fewer lamps to treat a given flow
-- Enhanced hydraulics resulting in consistent high quality disinfection
-- Operational ease and flexibility with its modular single lamp reactors
-- Automatic dose pacing and lamp wiping for unattended operation
-- Internet-enabled for centralized remote system control and monitoring
-- Potable water disinfection capability
-- Higher lamp and hydraulic efficiency allowing for cost effective
disinfection of murky waters, even combined sewer overflows
USFilter, a Vivendi Water company, is the leading global
provider of commercial, industrial, municipal and residential
water and wastewater treatment systems, products and services,
with operations in more than 100 countries. USFilter, which is
based in Palm Desert, Calif. invites you to visit its web sites at
http://www.usfilter.com/ and
http://www.wallaceandtiernan.usfilter.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:
"Handbook of Environmental Engineering
Calculations"
by C. C. Lee and Shun Dar Lin
Hardcover, 1,504 pages, March 2000
"How to Implement Industrial Water Reuse: A Systematic
Approach"
by William Doerr, Rajeev Krishanan
Paperback, 1995
"Issues in Potable Reuse: The Viability of Augmenting Drinking
Water Supplies with Reclaimed Water"
by CEVAPWS
Hardcover, 280 pages, July, 1998
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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Ridge Administration Announces $26.4 Million for Clean-Water
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania
Infrastructure Investment Authority (PENNVEST) today approved
$24.7 million in low-interest loans and $1.7 million in grants
for 13 drinking water, wastewater and storm-water projects to
serve communities in nine counties. The grants, provided
under Gov. Tom Ridge's "Growing Greener" initiative, were
targeted at three prohibitively expensive projects to bring
them within the financial reach of their customers.
Consistent with the intent of Gov. Ridge's "Growing Greener"
initiative, the PENNVEST Board of Directors authorized the
administrative staff to enter into a joint funding arrangement
with the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and the Progress Fund.
Under this arrangement, the Conservancy and the Fund would
use loan funds provided by PENNVEST to capitalize a program
to protect the water quality of streams in forested areas.
This would be accomplished by the encouragement of forest
land-management practices that control the runoff of soil and
contaminants into streams while still allowing the responsible
harvesting of the hardwood products that contribute to the
economic well-being of these areas.
The state funding approved at today's board meeting ranges
from $5,480 to help design a water system to serve a planned
U.S. Army Heritage Center museum in Middlesex Township,
Cumberland County; to $6,435,000 to provide drinking water
to residents of Jackson Township, Butler County, who currently
are dependent on inadequate supply wells.
The funding for today's projects brings PENNVEST's total
funding for community water and sewer projects to more than
$2.4 billion since the program's inception.
For more information contact:
Paul K. Marchetti of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment
Authority (PENNVEST), 717-783-4496.
SOURCE Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority
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Montgomery Watson and Harza Engineering Announce Merger
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PASADENA, Calif., and CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2000--
Montgomery Watson Inc. and Harza Engineering Company today
said the two international engineering firms signed a
memorandum of understanding to join forces, creating one of
the world's largest engineering and construction consulting
organizations with more than 5,000 employees in 30 countries
around the globe.
The historic merger of two companies will produce an
international organization with more than $680 million in
annual revenue, and with 231 years of combined experience.
Montgomery Watson Harza, as the new company is to be called,
combines Montgomery Watson's leadership in water and wastewater
with Harza's expertise in the energy, water and infrastructure
markets.
Montgomery Watson, one of the 500 largest privately held
companies in the United States according to Forbes and No.
18 on Engineering News Record's annual list of top 500
design firms, specializes in water, wastewater and environmental
infrastructure design, construction, finance, operations
and maintenance.
Privately held Harza Engineering Company, with more than 1,000
employees and ranked 61st on the Engineering News Record
list, commands significant global market share in
hydroelectricity and infrastructure design, as well as highly
competitive engineering practices in several environmental and
energy-related sectors of the industry.
When finalized, newly named Montgomery Watson Harza will
maintain corporate headquarters in Pasadena, with major
business divisions headquartered in Denver, Chicago, London
and Singapore.
"Montgomery Watson's merger with Harza Engineering Company
expands the size and scope of our combined companies'
operating capabilities around the globe, brings together
two highly talented international staffs to serve our
clients on a global basis with broadly different areas of
expertise, and significantly adds to the financial strength
and stability of the resulting organization," commented
Murli Tolaney, chairman and chief executive officer of
Montgomery Watson.
"The growth achieved through this merger brings a wealth of
opportunities for our clients and employees alike," noted
Refaat Abdel-Malek, Harza's president and CEO. "Expanded
services and expertise benefit everyone, and our staff
will have increased room to grow over the coming years.
We're very pleased that this is becoming a reality."
Operationally, both companies share long histories of
excellence, similar corporate cultures that honor
individual expertise and encourage teamwork, innovation
and initiative, and a common view of the industry's future.
That view suggests that breadth of knowledge and expertise,
comprehensive project capabilities, international reach,
and financial size and strength will all play important
roles in successful infrastructure firms of the future.
For more information contact:
Montgomery Watson Inc., Cheryl Friedling, 626/568-6827
or
Harza Engineering, Natalie Holz, 312/831-3414
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Project group needs principles of wastewater cleaning:
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out going products, the used methods of cleaning, the
temperature increase, the amount of water.
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Mechanical Engineering
University of Twente
mailto:proj31g06@wb.utwente.nl
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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 two 25-foot diameter by 34-foot high
Aquastore® tanks for leachate storage are enclosed in a
70-foot diameter by 5-foot high secondary containment tank.
Aquastore® primary and secondary containment tanks offer
reliable leachate storage with a glass-fused-to-steel coating
that resists corrosive contaminants. That’s why our tanks
are in service in hundreds of leachate storage applications.
Photograph courtesy of Mr. Tom Renich
A. O. Smith, Engineered Storage Products
Aquastore
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Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
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From the Job Fair
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WATER TREATMENT OPERATOR III OR WATER TREATMENT OPERATOR I/II
Water Treatment Operator III Or Water Treatment Operator I/II
(One position available – to be filled at III or I/II level,
DOQ) Monthly Salary: I: $2,454.40; II: $2,769.87; III: $2,905.07
(Plus a comprehensive benefits package)
QUALIFICATIONS: Experience: Two to three years experience in
the maintenance and operation of a water treatment plant.
LICENSES & CERTIFICATES: 1) A valid California driver=s license,
Class C, with a driving record acceptable to the District=s
insurance underwriter. 2) A Grade II or III Water Treatment
Plant Operator Certificate, issued by the California State of
Department of Health Services.
TO APPLY: For an application packet, and complete position
description, contact the Ramona Municipal Water District,
105 Earlham Street, Ramona, CA, 92065, 760-789-1330. Apply
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