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Drinking Water Lab Hosts Big Splash
At New Facility
NORTHBROOK, Ill., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/
-- A distinguished panel of U.S. and global water quality experts
will be on hand Thursday, Oct. 10 for Environmental Health
Laboratories' (EHL) open house in South Bend, Ind. EHL, the water
testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), is the nation's
leading provider in the microbiological and chemical analysis of
drinking water.
During the open house, UL President
and CEO Loring Knoblauch will dedicate the EHL facility as a UL
Global Center of Analytical Excellence -- a symbol of UL and EHL's
joint commitment to drinking water safety. Following the open house,
Knoblauch will moderate a round table discussion with water quality
experts from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Delta Faucet Company, Canadian
Water and Wastewater Association and others. Critical topics of
discussion include the quality of the world's drinking water and
UL's role during the next 20 years.
Since UL acquired EHL in April 2001,
the size of the lab has more than tripled from 26,000 sq. ft. to
78,000 sq. ft. The acquisition of EHL added drinking water analysis
to UL's growing portfolio of environmental and public health
certification programs. UL's current environmental and public health
services include testing and certification of food service
equipment, drinking water system components, component materials and
treatment additives.
"EHL's current staff of 107
employees may find themselves rattling around a bit in much of the
yet unoccupied space," said Jerry Thoma, president of EHL.
"But we now have room for the organized and planned growth we
have envisioned."
"I believe in the vision of a
world-renowned Center for Excellence for water in the private
sector. It is an achievable reality," Thoma said. "And
indeed, the added space will allow for the hiring of as many as 150
additional staff to work as this vision unfolds during the next few
years."
In the past 10 years, EHL has helped
more than 7,000 public water supplies, domestically and abroad,
comply with increasingly complex Safe Drinking Water Act
regulations. For more about other environmental and public health
services, visit http://www.ul.com/eph
.
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL)
is an independent, not-for-profit organization that has been testing
and certifying products for safety for more than 108 years. More
than 17 billion UL Marks appear on products each year, and more than
18,000 types of products are tested at UL's five U.S. laboratories.
Worldwide, the UL family of companies and its network of service
providers include more than 45 laboratory, testing and certification
facilities.
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Emerson
Wins D.C. and Chicago Contracts - $40M
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1,
2002-- Emerson Projects Include Largest Advanced Wastewater
Treatment Facility in the World Emerson Process Management, a
business of Emerson, announced today that its Power & Water
Solutions division, formerly Westinghouse Process Control, has been
awarded contracts to upgrade the process control technology used at
water and wastewater treatment facilities serving the Washington,
D.C. and Chicago metropolitan areas.
The multi-year contracts involve
equipment, technology and services valued at more than $40 million.
Both projects call for installation
of Emerson's Ovation Information & Control system for reliable
and responsive real-time monitoring and process control (using
computer systems to automate and regulate the continuous operations
of the water and wastewater facilities). With Emerson's process
control technology, the utilities will be able to better assure
adequate treatment capacity and more efficiently and economically
operate their systems.
District of Columbia project: Emerson
has entered into a $35 million contract with the District of
Columbia Water & Sewer Authority (DCWASA) to modernize the
utility's process control systems. The utility serves 2.1 million
people in a 725 square-mile area that includes the District of
Columbia and nearby Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Emerson will
install three Ovation(R) systems to improve operations at the
utility's treatment facilities and distribution systems, including
its Blue Plains treatment facility -- the largest advanced
wastewater treatment facility in the world, covering 150 acres and
with a peak capacity of 370 million gallons per day.
Chicago project: Emerson entered into
a contract earlier this summer with Divane Bros. Electric Co. of
Franklin Park, Ill., to modernize control systems at three water
reclamation plants owned and operated by the Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC). Emerson also
entered a five-year renewable maintenance agreement with MWRDGC for
the three control systems, aimed at containing or reducing service
costs while maintaining each system at peak performance. Together,
the two contracts are valued at $6.5 million.
The Chicago utility serves an area of
872 square miles that includes the city of Chicago and 124 suburban
communities with a total population of 5.1 million people.
"We're excited to have the
opportunity to apply our extensive water and wastewater technology
experience to help the utilities in the District of Columbia and
Chicago improve their operations," said Ann Pauley, president
of Emerson's Power & Water Solutions division. "We're
looking forward to providing these utilities with well-designed,
efficient process control systems that will enable them to meet
their regulatory requirements, while offering long-term operational
cost savings."
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management ( www.emersonprocess.com
), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate
their production, processing and distribution in the water and
wastewater treatment, power, chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp
and paper, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and other industries.
Emerson Process Management's Power & Water Solutions division ( www.emersonprocess-powerwater.com
), formerly Westinghouse Process Control, is a global supplier of
advanced distributed process control and information systems. The
Pittsburgh-based company is a recognized leader in developing
plant-wide process control solutions for the power generation, water
treatment and wastewater treatment industries.
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New FORMULA X Wet Well Mounted Pump
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LENEXA (Kan.) - Smith & Loveless
Inc. has launched the new FORMULA X Wet Well Mounted Pump Station to
the global wastewater marketplace, the latest pre-engineered pump
station innovation from the company that has shaped the wastewater
pumping industry for more than 50 years.
From
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Director of Corporate Marketing remarked that the FORMULA X Wet Well
Mounted Pump Station covers the bases for smart asset management.
"In this era of tightening
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service and life-cycle costs have become high priority
considerations for designers and municipalities," said Chen,
who served as the Product Development Chairperson. "The FORMULA
X is designed with these as top priorities to provide long-term
value to the end-user."
Armed with an array of
state-of-the-art standard components and features, the FORMULA X Wet
Well Mounted Pump Station delivers a strong station base
specification for the designer geared toward superior convenience
and automation for the operator. Convenience comes with complete and
easy access to the station's components for maintenance inspections.
Automation means operator power and control over station operation
with the Smith & Loveless PROTRONIX™ Control System. This new
microprocessor-based system-with panel display-controls the entire
station operation, including the pumps, level transducer,
environmental controls, and alarm functions.
On the exterior, the FORMULA X™
features a newly styled fiberglass enclosure with a light-green
UV-resistant gel coating that blends well with natural surroundings.
For operator safety and convenience, a convenient entry and opening
mechanism-a two-piece, rolling fiberglass cover-provides immediate
access to the pumps and control panel display. This horizontal
opening design eliminates lifting loads during opening/closing. For
360 degree access to motors, pumps and controls-even while the
station is in operation-operators can completely remove the
enclosure in seconds without the use of tools or hoisting equipment.
Operators also have eased wet well
access with a minimum opening of 4.2 ft. The flip-open manway access
cover features a new, split, reinforced plate design so that one
side can be open while the other remains flat, providing a stable
platform for wet well observation.
The FORMULA X utilizes proven,
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More than 50 years ago, S&L
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the first factory-built wastewater lift station and the first pump
designed exclusively for sewage handling. The new FORMULA X
continues this hallmark with a complete packaged product that
tackles today's demands for increased operator convenience and the
goal of satisfying the changing needs in wastewater collection and
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