Viewpoint

• Summer a Time for Cool Water, Reading & Movies
  Amazon.com recently got a small bundle of cash from me for my summer reading list.

Environmental Compliance

• Space Invaders
  Air toxics or odors leaving your facility and entering your neighbor’s air space may now subject you to property devaluation claims.

Regulatory Report

• Coal Slurry Spill Prompts Scrutiny
  With holiday newscasts trumpeting Tennessee spill last December, softened rules and lax enforcement spurs action by USEPA.

Pump Issues

• Mothballing Pumps
  With slowdowns at a number of industrial facilities due to the recession, it’s a good time to discuss cutting back and saving our pumps as production slows.

Cooling FAQs

• Temperature, Biocides Crucial to Cooling Water Control
  The following were questions and answers submitted to “Ask the Expert” columnist at the Cooling Water Institute’s CTI Journal – used by permission here:

Executive Corner

• More than Rocket Science with ITT’s Gretchen McClain

  Former NASA International Space Station Program manager moves up fast to oversee ITT Fluid & Motion Control Group, including pumps, water and wastewater solutions

Trends & Technology

Product Focus

• HOBAS Replaces Wood Stave Penstock
  New Hampshire’s largest electric utility replaces 1920s-era pipeline to Jackman Hydro Station

Case Study

• Transforming CBM Produced Water into a Valuable Resource
  Wyoming’s Rocky Mountain Powder River Basin receives precious little rainfall but is home to some of the world’s largest sources of coal bed methane (CBM).

Showcase

• Product Showcase
  Aeration Industries won an Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) Business Achievement Award for its successful deployment of the Tri-Oval® Oxidation Ditch wastewater treatment system.

New Products

• New Products
  In partnership with Bolton Photosciences, Blue Ridge Numerics Inc. has released the new CFdesign UVCalc Module, an industry-first upfront computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution for simulating and validating ultraviolet reactor performance to ensure accurate fluence rates for UV light disinfection.

New Literature

• New Literature
  Asahi/America, Inc., a leading manufacturer of thermoplastic valves and piping systems, introduces its new Air-Pro Catalog for compressed air piping systems.

Water Briefs

• Water Briefs
  The first eight years of a comprehensive monitoring study to understand the effects of pulp and paper mill effluent discharges in four U.S. streams was reported in a special section of the April 2009 issue of Integrated Environmental Assessment & Management, a quarterly journal of the Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC).