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  • Volume 27, Issue 9

    • Volume 27, Issue 9

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    Product Showcase

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Auger conveyorThe Duperon® Auger Conveyor provides for increased site flexibility with the possibility of 90 degree turns within 90 inches. Ideal for distances up to 40 feet, ...
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    Energy Management

    Floating Solar Systems Provide Power, Environmental Benefits

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Water and wastewater utilities can benefit from new floating solar power systems offered by SPG Solar. The company's Floatovoltaics® technology is a hybrid solar power system ...
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    Multi-Faceted System Helps Meet Utility's Triple Challenge

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Fort Lupton, Colorado, expanded capacity at its drinking water treatment plant. The project included adding a Clearlogx™ chemical feed control system from Siemens Water Technologies...
    Potable Water Quality

    Tampa Bay Water Awards Contract for Reservoir Repair

    Sept. 1, 2011
    A $162 million contract has been approved by Tampa Bay Water's board of directors to renovate the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir and increase the facility's storage by 3 billion...
    Distribution

    City Signs O&M Contract with United Water

    Sept. 1, 2011
    United Water has signed a five-year contract for professional operations, maintenance and management of the water and wastewater systems with the city of Pontiac, MI, located ...
    Asset Management

    Debunking the Battery Life Expectancy Myth Between AMI and AMR

    Sept. 1, 2011
    There is typically no difference in battery life between automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems. There is little reason for utilities...

    More content from Volume 27, Issue 9

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    Potable Water Quality

    EPA Regional Focus: Spotlight on the Mid-Atlantic

    Sept. 1, 2011
    EPA Region 3 is home to the nation's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The goal of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL is to reduce the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment...
    Home

    San Francisco Awards Contract for Wastewater Program

    Sept. 1, 2011
    A $150 million program management contract has been awarded to an AECOM/Parsons joint venture by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC).
    Distribution

    Consulting Firm Contracted for Force Main Inspections

    Sept. 1, 2011
    The Department of Public Works of Baltimore County, MD, selected RJN Group to provide professional engineering services for a Force Main Inspection Program in accordance with ...
    Potable Water Quality

    EPA, USDA Create Partnership to Improve Drinking Water Systems

    Sept. 1, 2011
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have announced a national partnership to protect Americans' health by improving rural...
    Infrastructure Funding

    Construction Begins on Colorado Water Project

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Southern Colorado officials and community leaders gathered at the base of Pueblo Dam on August 19th to celebrate the beginning of major construction on the historic Southern Delivery...
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    Asset Management

    Hybrid Lithium Batteries Powering Automated Metering Infrastructure

    Sept. 1, 2011
    The majority of water meters used in automated meter reading (AMR) systems and automated metering infrastructure (AMI) are powered by lithium thionyl chloride (LiSOCL2) batteries...
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    Potable Water Quality

    Optical DO System Helps Limit Calibration Issues

    Sept. 1, 2011
    YSI's ProODO® handheld meter and ProOBOD® laboratory probes use optical, luminescent DO to determine dissolved oxygen values. The probes measure dissolved oxygen by emitting a...
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    WEFTEC Exhibitor Products: Part 9

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Cured-in-place pipeInsituform Technologies invented cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) 40 years ago and continues to advance the infrastructure rehabilitation industry today with its ...
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    Energy Management

    Products & Services: CHEMICALS & APPLICATION EQUIPMENT

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Peracetic acidSolvay Chemicals’ Proxitane® WW-12 Peracetic Acid (PAA) microbiocide is used for biological control in wastewaters, and is an alternative to halogenated disinfectants...
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    Selecting the Best/Most Efficient Centrifugal Pump Control

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Probably the most important decision a pump user can make, in order to obtain the lowest pump system life cycle cost (Dec 2009 Pump Tips Column), is to select the best pump control...
    Infrastructure Funding

    Promoting a Positive Image for Water

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Last year I surprised my 7 year old daughter at school as the "mystery reader". Instead of reading The Cat in the Hat I decided to talk about what I did for a living.
    Potable Water Quality

    GAO Report Targets EPA Inaction on Drinking Water Contaminants

    Sept. 1, 2011
    A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has charged that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not regulated any new drinking water contaminants, with one very...
    Potable Water Quality

    Establishing an Effective Pretreatment Program

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Have you ever heard the phrase, "Just pour it down the drain?"
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    Infrastructure Funding

    Weighing the Options for a Major Rehab Project

    Sept. 1, 2011
    When I embark on a home remodeling project I often think about the water industry.
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    Scaled-Up Nitrogen Reduction in Narragansett Bay

    Sept. 1, 2011
    The world's largest integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) process is currently under construction in Providence, RI, and is designed to protect water quality and reduce...
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    Distribution

    Portable Meters Help Troubleshoot Flow Discrepancies

    Sept. 1, 2011
    An Ontario municipality deployed portable flowmeters to solve flow rate discrepancies between sewage pump station effluent and lagoon influent flowmeters. The project involved...
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    New MBR System Promises to Cut Energy Costs

    Sept. 1, 2011
    The new LEAPmbr membrane bioreactor (MBR) wastewater treatment system from General Electric (GE) is designed for use in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities...
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    Treatment

    UV System Offers Disinfection of CSO, Stormwater Flows

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Chlorine has traditionally been used to provide disinfection of Combined Sewer Overflows due to its low cost.
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    Infrastructure Funding

    Monitoring System Tracks Rental Pump Performance

    Sept. 1, 2011
    In industrial rental situations, both the vendor and the customer need the rental equipment to perform as expected.
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    Potable Water Quality

    Information Management Helps Streamline Reporting, Operations

    Sept. 1, 2011
    The City of Gastonia, North Carolina, Water Supply and Treatment facility is using the Hach Water Information Management Solution (WIMS™) to help manage the data and streamline...
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    Energy Management

    Company to Showcase Mechanically Enhanced "Biodrying" Process

    Sept. 1, 2011
    Siemens Water Technologies' IPS Composing System features a Mechanically Enhanced Biodrying (MEB) system that incorporates physical processes such as forced aeration and turning...