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Water and Waste Water Dot Com Newsletter
"For the water and wastewater treatment professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 23, August 28, 2000
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@waterandwastewater.com
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> "$200,000+ in Equipment Quoted...It all started with
RealTime"
> Eagle Environmental Awarded Water Processing Contract
> Water Treatment Facilities Are Testing EnviroClean's ECT-2000
> This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Electronic Catalog on CD-ROM
> Novel Aluminum Cover Installed Over Large Water Reservoir
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe and Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Eagle Environmental Awarded Water Processing Contract
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SPARKS, Nev., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Brian Wilmot, President
and CEO of Eagle Environmental Technologies Ltd. (OTC: EGVR),
announced today that Eagle is providing an 18,000-gallon per
day WaterClear(TM) nano-filtration surface water treatment
system to Meadows Union Elementary School (El Centro, Calif.)
The 500-student school is upgrading its private water treatment
plant to comply with the requirements of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the State of California Department of
Health Services' (DHS) Surface Water Filtration and
Disinfection Regulation.
WaterClear(TM), which permits unattended operation, is the
only DHS approved "Alternative Filtration" system, is
capable
of over 99 percent removal of Giardia cyst, cryptosporidium
oocyst, bacteria, and virus. The system includes manual and
automated alarms and shut-off systems and incorporates an
auto-dialer to notify an attendant of equipment or water
distress.
Meadows Union Elementary School receives its source drinking
water from the Imperial Irrigation District's Central Main
Canal. "Because the canal is open to the surrounding
environment and subject to surface runoff, it is vulnerable
to periodic high turbidity events and microbial contamination,"
said Wilmot. "The DHS has indicated the raw water supplying
the locality of the school is not of consistent good quality.
For this reason, the DHS has increased its general standard
to be met by all surface water systems currently under
operation and any new systems being proposed in the area.
Eagle is in an excellent position to provide solutions
ongoing."
WaterClear(TM) processes surface water for home, commercial,
and municipal potable water applications. Currently, Eagle
is designing systems for another school in northern California,
a dairy farm and an agricultural drainage district in central
California, and a location of the California Department of
Fish and Game.
Eagle Environmental Technologies Ltd. is a systems integration
and environmental product development company. Eagle's
Zawtech division expects to deliver its first ZawCad high
pressure cryogenic "zero waste" abrading unit to a Greek
ship repair customer of Lockheed Martin Corporation in late
fall.
For more information contact:
Eagle Environmental Technologies
1380 Greg St. Suite 220
Sparks, NV 89431
Phone: 775-331-6555
Fax: 775-331-2666
Web Site: http://www.egvr.com/
mailto:info@egvr.com
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Water Treatment Facilities Are Testing EnviroClean's ECT-2000
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Municipal water
treatment facilities have scheduled pilot programs to test
ECT-2000, a safe new product developed for water purification.
Municipal water system managers and engineers are now being
briefed on the benefits of ECT-2000 as a replacement for
chlorine and offered the opportunity to test the product at
their own treatment centers to confirm its efficacy and
safety, according to Douglas Smith, Chief Operating Officer
of EnviroClean Technologies.
"Using ECT-2000 is a win-win situation for water treatment
facilities, it's safe, effective and very economical. Current
alternatives are prohibitively expensive," says Doug Smith
who has been involved in all aspects of water treatment and
purification for over 20 years. He also advised the Russian
government after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
ECT-2000, recently developed by EnviroClean Technology, has
all the antimicrobial benefits of chlorine without any of its
health and environmental hazards. It has been extensively
tested by several environment-testing laboratories and found
to be non-toxic, non-irritating to the skin, non-corrosive,
and odorless.
The product is now in the final stage of being tested and
certified by the NSF (National Sanitary Foundation).
"ECT-2000 is a extremely safe and effective product for
disinfecting waste water and drinking water," says Dr. Daniel
L. Hetrick, Head of Research and Development for EnviroClean
Technologies.
Daniel L. Hetrick, a Ph.D. in Microbiology/Immunology has
25 years of experience in health and food safety research
and testing. He is a certified specialist in Public Health
and Medical Laboratory Microbiology, and has been associated
with the University of Miami School of Medicine. He is a
respected international consultant in anti microbial and
chemical disinfectant research and is a registered
Consultant/Analyst with the FDA.
Currently, chlorine is being used as the most widespread
disinfectant of wastewater and drinking water. Research
has shown that chlorine contributes, not only to the
depletion of the earth's ozone layer, but reacts with other
substances in the environment to form compounds called
chlorinated hydrocarbons, possible carcinogens.
For more information contact:
EnviroClean Technologies, LLC
13015 Southwest 89th Place Suite #212
Miami, FL 33176
Telephone: 305-232-8249
Fax: 305-232-1011
Web Site: http://www.envirocleantech.com/
mailto:info@envirocleantech.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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Electronic Catalog on CD-ROM
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GLI International, Inc. has made its complete product catalog
available on CD-ROM.
The CD contains a library of data sheets, engineering
specifications, and product summaries, plus over sixty
complete product manuals. The CD is designed to be easily
browsed, and is available at no charge. Products are easily
located by feature using linked comparison matrices. Online
users can link to GLI's web site directly from the CD's
main menu for recent company news and updated product
information.
For more information contact:
Mr. Tim Schilz
Manager of Marketing
GLI International, Inc.
9020 West Dean Road
P.O. Box 245022
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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Novel Aluminum Cover Installed Over Large Water Reservoir
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The Columbian Park Water Reservoir in Lafayette, IN now has
an all-aluminum truss-vault roof to cover the drinking water
it stores, and which must be protected from contamination and
other environmental intrusions. The reservoir provides storage
of the treated drinking water that is distributed to the
surrounding community.
Direct sunlight impinging on the stored water is one of the
problems. It breaks down the contained chlorine, added in
the treatment process to keep the finished product algae-free.
Also, the water must be protected from vandalism and park
animals and birds.
Until recently, the reservoir had been protected by a floating
cover made of a polyethylene fabric that had to be replaced
approximately every 15 years at considerable expense.
Additionally, the cover had to be cleaned on a regular basis,
which meant that this costly maintenance task was an annual
line item in the budget.
When it was time to replace the last floating cover recently,
management decided to seek out and investigate more economical
and practical options. The bid process began by issuing a
list of requirements:
The new cover had to be a clear-span design, since it would
not be possible to build supports into the reservoir. It had
to be corrosive-resistant to the contents and the environment.
"One of the most important requirements was that the new cover
be made from either aluminum or stainless steel," according
to Charles Barker of Hawkins Environmental, the engineering
firm selected to assist in the project.
He explained that the chlorine in the finished water is
corrosive to almost every other building material. Finally,
it had to be as maintenance-free as possible to hold down
costs.
Temcor, a Carson, CA company, which has constructed numerous
aluminum covers for water and wastewater facilities, was
awarded the contract to design and build the structure over
the 42,000 sq.-ft. Lafayette reservoir. It would be the largest
clear-span aluminum water storage cover in the U.S., almost
an acre in size. The clear-span roof would be resistant to
moisture and corrosion, and require minimal maintenance for
many years.
However, a difficult challenge faced the design team. How
would they assemble the massive truss-vault sections for
the roof and get them into place? To solve the problem, the
team engineered a unique erection system for covering the
reservoir, which reaches depths of 27 ft, without taking it
out of service.
But all of these options proved to be impractical, cumbersome
or cost-prohibitive, so Temcor started with a clean slate
and came up with the novel scheme. The solution was to
construct a special u-channel track along the sides of the
reservoir, bolted to the sides of the grade beam foundation,
extending past the end of the reservoir, and ending at a
construction staging area.
This truss roof vault is one design in the company’s line
of aluminum dome and non-circular tank cover systems that
have been installed in more than 4,000 locations around
the world.
Completed, the cover has a low profile and has met with
approval from local residents. Barker said that the roof
has been "very well received by the locals." The reservoir
is in a very public area of the city, and aesthetics were
an important consideration in the design. As a result,
the City of Lafayette now has an attractive water reservoir
cover that provides maximum protection for the contents
and which requires minimal maintenance.
For more information contact:
Temcor
24724 S. Wilmington Avenue
Carson, CA 90745
Telephone: 310-549-4311 or 800-421-2263 within US
Web site: http://www.temcor.com/
mailto:temcor@compuserve.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. Chastain needs help with a raw water clarifier problem:
I need to contact Walker Process if they are still in business.
The rake gear box in the clarifier was changed due to an oil
leak. The original design tipseed is 10.5 ft/min, but the new
gear box has increased the speed to 11.2 ft/min. Is this a
significant problem.
Operations has increased the bed level from a norm of 6.5 to
8.5 ft to the current 11 to 12 ft. Will this cause short
circuiting around the bell. Noticeable billowing is taking
place that did not normally occur.
Fred Chastain
mailto:fred.chastain@bakerpetrolite.com
Mr. Anderson needs help with standards for BOD, TSS..
Hi, Envirogenesis, Inc. is a small business engaged in
onsite wastewater management targeted at the food service
industry (more specifically to restaurants).
We've been around for eight years and need help with
mandates or ordinances regarding minimum standards imposed
by wastewater treatment facilities specifically regarding
BOD, TSS land FOG. Our experience has been that each and
every POTW has their own standards. We're trying to find
out if there are any that we can say are "generally
accepted".
Anything you can help us with would be deeply appreciated.
Sincerely,
Doug Anderson
President
mailto:douga@envirogenesis.com
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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 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
We would love to have your photo of a water treatment process,
new plant or equipment "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of water treatment at its
best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo with a
description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@waterandwastewater.com
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From the Job Fair
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projects in water/wastewater and infrastructure improvements.
Person will be involved in contract negotiation, invoicing,
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Job is located in Grand Rapids, MI.
For more information contact:
Mr. Jeff Poest
RCM Technologies
Telephone: 616-842-4710
mailto:jeff.poest@rcmt.com
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