WaterBriefs: Spalding DeDecker Associates announces new contracts

In other news below:
-- Pittcon 2007 releases final registration statistics
-- Transpara named "Cool Vendor" by leading analyst firm
-- Emerson receives Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement award for pharmaceutical industry automation solutions
-- ARCADIS scientists co-edit the third edition of The Water Encyclopedia
-- QED's Air-Powered AutoPump beats the 'Pump Eaters' at extreme landfill leachate and groundwater cleanup sites
-- LANXESS MPP selects ChemPoint.com as North American distributor

• Spalding DeDecker Associates announces new contracts
DETROIT, MI, March 27, 2007 -- Spalding DeDecker Associates is pleased to announce agreements with the following clients:
• Beaumont Services Group -- Independence Township Site Planning & Engineering
• City of Inkster -- Combined Sewer Overflow -- Sewer Separation and Project Performance Certification
• Michigan Department of Transportation -- Road Scoping Program for I-96 (Wayne/Livonia areas), US-12 (Michigan Avenue), and I-375 (Detroit)
• Six-S, Inc. Concrete Paving & Excavating - Surveying and mapping services for Michigan Department of Transportation
• Michigan Department of Transportation, the Road Commission for Oakland County and the City of Troy -- Livernois Road Repaving 15 Mile to Big Beaver.

Established in 1954, Spalding DeDecker Associates Inc. is an engineering consulting firm specializing in infrastructure, land development and surveying. With offices in Detroit, Rochester Hills and Trenton, Michigan, SDA is an employee owned and ISO certified organization that provides design and engineering solutions for municipal, land development, transportation and water/wastewater projects. The firm also offers complete construction engineering and land surveying & mapping services.

Also see:
-- "Spalding DeDecker Associates employees receive professional licenses and designations"

Among other recent headlines:

• Pittcon 2007 releases final registration statistics
A strong technical program highlights Pittcon 2007
CHICAGO, IL, March 26, 2007 -- The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy announced registration statistics for Pittcon 2007 at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, February 25 to March 2. The six-day Conference and Exposition was attended by 22,213 conferees and exhibitors representing more than 85 countries...

• Transpara named "Cool Vendor" by leading analyst firm
Vendors selected by Gartner for the "Cool Vendor Report" are innovative, impactful and intriguing
PLEASANTON, CA, March 27, 2007 -- Transpara Corporation has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Manufacturing, 2007" Gartner report. The report, which lists Transpara as a vendor that plays across a broad set of manufacturing verticals, was issued on March 6, 2007, by analysts Dan Miklovic, Dale Hagemeyer, Marc Halpern and Jim Duggan...
Also see: -- "Invensys, Transpara announce global partnership"

• Emerson receives Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Enhancement award for pharmaceutical industry automation solutions
PALO ALTO, CA, March 27, 2007 -- Frost & Sullivan selected Emerson Process Management, an Emerson business, as the recipient of the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement within automation and software solutions for the pharmaceutical industry...
Also see: -- "Emerson changes brand name of densitometers"

• ARCADIS scientists co-edit the third edition of The Water Encyclopedia
DENVER, CO, March 27, 2007 -- ARCADIS, the international consulting and engineering company, announced that two of its scientists co-edited the third edition of The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources. The first edition of the book was published in 1970. For more than 35 years ARCADIS has been an integral part of keeping hydrologic data accurate and up-to-date...
Also see: -- "Mott MacDonald signs agreement to acquire ARCADIS Euroconsult"

• QED's Air-Powered AutoPump beats the 'Pump Eaters' at extreme landfill leachate and groundwater cleanup sites
ANN ARBOR, MI, March 26, 2007 -- Pumping to control landfill leachate and methane gas condensate or to recover contaminated ground water for environmental remediation is not a job for everyday submersible pumps. Ordinary electric submersible pumps do a great job at what they are designed for -- pumping cool, clean water. But environmental pumping sites are crawling with "pump eaters" -- harsh acids and corrosive chemicals, aggressive solvents, flammable and explosive hydrocarbons, high temperatures and viscosities, heavy loads of silt and suspended solids, dissolved gases, foams and emulsions...

• LANXESS MPP selects ChemPoint.com as North American distributor
BELLEVUE, WA, March 27, 2007 -- LANXESS Corporation's Material Protection Products (MPP) business unit has announced a distributor arrangement with ChemPoint.com, a leading internet-enabled distributor of fine and specialty chemicals. In order to enhance service, MPP has chosen ChemPoint to serve certain customers nationwide because of the company's proven ability to deliver high-quality technical support along with personalized customer service...
Also see: -- "LANXESS has not made an offer for Degussa: Denies newspaper report"

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