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Vol. 2, No. 21, August 14, 2000
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> "RealTime Aide Paid for Itself..In Less Than A Week!"
> Georgia Power Paves Way for Wastewater Solutions
> Gundle/SLT Environmental Expands Into Nonwoven Geotextiles
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> NIER Delivers Computer Models for Watershed Management to EPA
> GLI/Manning Water and Wastewater Samplers
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Georgia Power Paves Way for Wastewater Solutions
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Treatment Plants Must Still Be Upgraded and Expanded,
According to Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
ATLANTA, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A major element of the Metro
Atlanta area's wastewater management solution was put in place
Tuesday when Georgia Power announced plans to install cooling
towers at two Chattahoochee River power plants that will
completely eliminate the plants' heat load on the river.
But Georgia Power and leaders of the 37-member Clean Water
Initiative emphasized that the Georgia Power action -- promising
as it is -- is only part of the solution. Only if local
governments follow through with needed enhancements and
expansions of their wastewater facilities will the region be
able to take full advantage of the potential capacity -- up
to an additional 260 million gallons per day -- created by
Georgia Power's action.
The Georgia Power decision to install 100 percent cooling
towers at its Yates and McDonough plants was announced at
Tuesday's meeting of the Clean Water Initiative Task Force
by task force co-chair Bill Dahlberg, who is also CEO of
Southern Co., Georgia Power's parent company. Current
regulations would allow Georgia Power to impose a heat load -
or temperature increase -- of up to five degrees on the river
water it cycles through its plants.
"We are going to build the cooling towers because it is the
right thing to do for our region, it is the right thing to do
for the river and ultimately it will be the right thing to do
for our business," said Dahlberg. "However, this is just the
first step in solving the problem. We now need our local,
county, state and private officials to support a regional
solution to protect the future of this very valuable river."
Dahlberg's announcement came near the conclusion of the task
force's fifth informational briefing, which focused on wastewater
treatment and dealt with the 'heat load' the two plants currently
impose on the Chattahoochee River. Currently, each power plant
takes in water from the Chattahoochee to cool its equipment
and then releases the resulting warm water back into the river.
Under new regulations, these Georgia Power plants would only
be allowed to release water that was five degrees warmer than
the water it takes in for cooling purposes. This is known as
the "five-degree standard."
This warm water from utility plants, combined with discharges
from other sources such as stormwater runoff, reduces the amount
of available "dissolved oxygen" in the Chattahoochee. A critical
concentration of dissolved oxygen is necessary in any healthy
river system to maintain fish and other aquatic life.
In order for the metro area to take advantage of additional
wastewater capacity created by certain upgrades and heat load
reductions, operators of wastewater facilities must make large
investments in improvements and expansion. Based on preliminary
cost estimates, upgrading and expanding treatment capacity by 165
million gallons a day (MGD) to an initial "first level" standard
would be approximately $900 million. To increase treatment capacity
to the highest levels proposed for the Gwinnett North Plant would
cost approximately $2.1 billion, based on current estimates.
SOURCE Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Web Site: http://www.cleanwaterinitiative.com/
http://www.metroatlantachamber.com/
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Gundle/SLT Environmental Expands Into Nonwoven Geotextiles
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Provides Diversification Opportunities and Broadens
Geosynthetic Product Offering;
HOUSTON, /PRNewswire/ -- Gundle/SLT Environmental, Inc.(NYSE:
GSE), a world leader in environmental geosynthetics, today
announced the expansion of its manufacturing business into
nonwoven geotextiles and fabrics. This expansion will enable
the company to diversify into new markets, such as civil
construction, and to meet its internal needs for nonwoven
material. The $17 million project will be funded out of the
company's short-term investments and line of credit.
"The expansion into nonwoven geotextiles is consistent with
our strategies to diversify and expand our product offering,"
said Samir T. Badawi, chairman, president and chief executive
officer. "We believe this is an attractive investment
opportunity where we can deploy our core capabilities of product
development, manufacturing and distribution.
"With a $3 billion market, nonwoven fabrics provide the
basis for a wide variety of consumer, industrial and health
care products," Badawi continued. "This will give us the ability
to grow our business by entering new markets, which will help
build long-term value for our shareholders. This project will
also enable the company to broaden the offering of
GSE-manufactured products to our customers, further enhancing
our ability to become a one-stop supplier for geosynthetic
solutions."
GSE will spend $11.5 million on the first phase of the project,
which will be located in Kingstree, S.C. In mid-August 2000,
construction will begin on a 156,000 square foot manufacturing
plant and a 5,400 square foot office building. The needlepunched
nonwoven manufacturing line being purchased by GSE is
state-of-the-art technology with a capacity of 16 million pounds.
The manufacturing line is expected to be operational in the
spring of 2001. The second phase, projected to cost $5.5
million for another nonwoven manufacturing line, will allow
the company to expand further into other geotextile and certain
fabric markets.
"Three-quarters of this manufacturing line's capacity is
currently needed for internal demand from our substantial
existing business," Badawi explained. Internally, GSE uses
nonwoven product to manufacture composite drainage materials for
the environmental market. In addition, the company resells
certain types of nonwoven material to its customers.
Badawi added, "The balance of the capacity will be used
to open new markets for GSE. We will seek to enter markets
that will return better than average margins and have the
growth potential to support the expansion of the project.
A natural extension is civil construction, a $122 million
nonwoven market that is growing 7 percent a year due to the
rebuilding of various civil infrastructures. Civil engineers
are already familiar with GSE's products, and the applications
are similar to the environmental market."
Gundle/SLT Environmental, Inc. is a world leader in providing
geosynthetic lining solutions, products and services to satisfy
the needs of domestic and international, municipal and private
companies engaged in waste management, mining, water and
wastewater treatment, aquaculture, and other industrial
activities.
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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:
"Water Treatment Membrane
Processes" (AWWA Research Foundation)
by Peter Odendaal, M. Wiesner and J. Mallevialle (editors)
Hard Cover, August 1996
"Operational Control of Water Systems: Structures, Algorithms,
and Applications"
by Mietek Brdys, Bogumil Ulanicki (Contributor)
Hardcover (April 1994)
"Water-Resources
Engineering" (McGraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering)
by Ray K. Linsley, Joseph B. Franzini, Tchobanoglou, David Freyberg
Hardcover - 768 pages 4th edition (December 1991)
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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NIER Delivers Computer Models for Watershed Management to EPA
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MAYFIELD, Pa., /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute for
Environmental Renewal (NIER) recently delivered computer models
for the management of the Wissahickon Creek watershed to the
federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The computer models simulate water quality in the Wissahickon
Creek watershed located in Montgomery and Philadelphia counties
in southeastern Pennsylvania. The simulations are in response
to changing discharges from wastewater treatment plants and
storm water runoffs.
The watershed management tool is the result of over two years
of data collection and analysis by NIER technicians and was
supported by a $1.5 million grant administered by the EPA.
"The watershed management tool is intended to provide a
scientific basis for decision making in the Wissahickon Creek
watershed," said Dr. Anthony P. Malinauskas, executive director
of NIER.
The decision support tool consists of calibrated hydrodynamic
and water quality numerical models and a graphic user interface,
said Dr. Malinauskas. The interface allows the user to change
contaminant loads from point sources and to visualize the effect
on water quality along the creek.
A web site for the Wissahickon watershed has been established at
http://wissahickon.nier.org./, Dr. Malinauskas said.
A demonstration of the capabilities of the computer models was
conducted on-site at the NIER complex. Representatives of EPA,
the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and
the community at large viewed the demonstrations.
The National Institute of Renewal is a non-profit corporation
established in 1994 to restore the environmental and economic
vitality of communities and industrial sites in northeastern
Pennsylvania and throughout the United States. The NIER staff
is comprised of teams of management professionals, engineers
and scientists with experience and expertise covering a wide
variety of disciplines.
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GLI/Manning Water and Wastewater Samplers
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GLI/Manning is one of only two water/wastewater sampler
manufacturers offering both vacuum and peristaltic type suction
lift technologies to fit your application requirements.
A water/wastewater sampler can move fluid from the source in
two ways. Fluid can be "pulled" by creating suction (vacuum)
in the sample tube or it can be "pushed" by a pump (peristaltic)
through the tube. Federal and local water authorities impose
strict effluent standards which require precise, repeatable
sample collection techniques. GLI/Manning samplers help
standardize the collection technique and time periods at which
samples are taken. They will increase the accuracy of the
samples taken, minimize sampling errors, and reduce the cost
of labor to collect the samples.
GLI/Manning samplers are ideal for a variety of industrial
and municipal, water and wastewater applications. Some typical
applications can be found in monitoring plant effluent,
verifying regulatory or permit compliance, combined sewer
overflow or storm water outfall monitoring, stream and river
monitoring, non-point source monitoring, and pre-treatment
compliance monitoring.
For more information contact:
Mr. Tim Schilz
GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Phone: 414-355-3601
Fax: 414-355-8346
Toll Free: 800-GLI-0263
Web site: http://www.gliint.com/
mailto:info@gliint.com
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Collamo needs help with storm water sampling:
Flow weighted sampling of tide influenced storm water
Does anyone have experience with or equipment suggestions for
sampling storm water during a rain event in storm lines that
are often submerged in salt water? Due to the number of
locations, the equipment needs to be automated to a great
extent.
Our approach is to monitor the conductivity to make
sure there is no seawater intrusion and then check for a
flow height/velocity increase over the base flow to trigger
a sampler. The sampler would then begin taking a flow
weighted composite sample or a series of discrete samples.
The discrete samples would allow discarding any that showed
salt-water contamination.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
M. Collamo
mailto:mcollamo@ci.tacoma.wa.us
Mr. Srinivasan needs help with activated sludge process
I am looking for an online Total Oxygen Demand (TOD) analyzer
for the ASP process. Has anyone of you used this analyzer?
If so, I would appreciate a feedback about such instruments
about their reliability, accuracy and serviceability. Also,
I need some info on the manufacturers of such instruments.
Any one interested can reply to me directly at
mailto:srinivasan.malarampath@sae.siemens.com.sg
Regards and thanks in advance
M. Srinivasan
Siemens, Singapore.
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
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 shows the microfiltration part of a 2.5 m3/hr
waste water treatment plant coupling proprietary physical
chemistry with microfiltration. The plant has been installed
at one of the factories of the SWATCH Group in Switzerland
and treats waste water coming from the surface treatment and
vibro-polishing activities. It is equipped with a automatic
back flush system using the filtrate, the membrane surface
is 12 m2.
Photograph courtesy of Mr. Perret Jacques Px TECH SA, Switzerland
http://www.groupepx.com/pxtech/index.html
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new plant or equipment "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
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