ADS to receive two water quality awards for innovation

ALEXANDRIA, VA, Sept. 4, 2008 -- ADS Environmental Services and Accusonic Technologies, two divisions of ADS LLC, will each receive the prestigious Innovative Technology Award from the Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international not-for-profit technical and educational water quality organization. The awards will be presented during ceremonies at WEFTEC®.08 -- WEF's 81st annual technical exhibition and conference taking place October 18-22, 2008, at McCormick Place in Chicago.
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The Innovative Technology Awards, which include one award for each of the four categories - collection systems, instrumentation, process equipment, and solids handling & disposal, are presented annually to WEF associate members who have introduced new innovative products or services related to the construction, operation, or maintenance of treatment facilities.

The ADS Spider (left); the Accusonic 7510+ (right).

ADS Environmental Services® is being recognized in the collection systems category for its ADS Spider™ technology. The ADS Spider merges two existing technologies to increase the efficiency of alarm notification for broad applications including wastewater operations. The device uses cellular service to simultaneously act as an alarm dialer and data logger. It communicates directly with the operator without using an interposing Web service.

Accusonic® Technologies is being recognized in the instrumentation category for its Accusonic 7510+® flow meter technology. The device uses multiple chordal path, transit-time technology with application specific transducers to provide significant flow metering capability across a large range of pipes and channels as well as cross sectional temperature data.

ADS Environmental Services and Accusonic Technologies will be honored during WEFTEC.08, .

ADS® LLC develops and provides technology-based products and services for the water, wastewater, and hydroelectric industries through three divisions, ADS Environmental Services, Hydra-Stop®, and Accusonic Technologies.

Formed in 1928, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with 35,000 individual members and 81 affiliated Member Associations representing an additional 50,000 water quality professionals throughout the world.

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