wastewater security Articles
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Safety in Drinking Water? Monitoring for Radioactive ContaminantsOnly Required Every Three, Six, or Nine Years per Federal Law
Current federal law requires testing of drinking water for radionuclides, “hazardous radioactive materials” every three, six, or nine years. The states have the option to increase testing frequency. [Federal Register Year 2000; page 76746. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/retrieve.html] An incident of terrorism, accident, or improper disposal of radioactive materials will surely ...
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GTI Has HP Hood’s Wastewater Treatment System Covered - Case Study
The Customer: HP Hood LLC is one of the largest dairy operators in the United States with 13 plants across the country. It has been producing high quality, delicious dairy products for more than 160 years. The Customer’s Needs: HP Hood’s plant in Winchester, Virginia, USA, was undergoing a planned expansion to its wastewater treatment system to keep pace with consumer demand. The ...
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Continuous Real Time Water Monitoring for Radiation Safety Terrorist Attack, Improper Disposal of Industrial Waste, Accidental Discharge
Safe drinking water is essential to life on earth. Unfortunately, this vast infrastructure suffers from critical vulnerability. Keeping America safe with continuous real time water monitoring is a vital goal and is currently being addressed for biological and chemical risks. For monitoring of radionuclides in drinking water as recommended in the Safe Drinking Water Act 8, the Clean Water Act 9, ...
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GTI Has HP Hood’s Wastewater Treatment System Covered
The Customer: HP Hood LLC is one of the largest dairy operators in the United States with 13 plants across the country. It has been producing high quality, delicious dairy products for more than 160 years. The Customer’s Needs: HP Hood’s plant in Winchester, Virginia, USA, was undergoing a planned expansion to its wastewater treatment system to keep pace with consumer demand. The ...
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How Shasun, a major Pharmaceutical manufacturer, maximises the investment in it`s operation critical Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant and improves it`s security at the same time
Overview At the Dudley Shasun facility we have a 7500 m3 biological treatment plant that can treat up to 36 tonnes of waste COD per day. Part of this capacity is utilised to treat up to 15 tankers per day of third party aqueous waste. The waste is very varied, covering everything from leachates at only 2000ppm COD to industrial waste at up to 500,000ppm COD. The Strathkelvin respirometer forms a ...
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Corus, Europe’s leading Iron and Steel producer, has acquired Strathkelvin’s latest respirometer resulting in the vastly improved security of their Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes in IJmuiden, Netherlands.
Dutch-Anglo iron and steel producer Corus installed a biological wastewater treatment plant that was put into operation at their major production facility in IJmuiden , the Netherlands . Following the first year of operation serious problems were encountered. The most probable cause was toxic components in one of the wastewater flows that dramatically decreased the removal efficiency of the ...
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Water Online Radio: Lessons from “The Wastewater Wizard”
Dan Theobald interviewed by Todd Schnick/Todd Youngblood TODD: How exciting to talk to our next guest, the WasteWater Wizard. His name is Daniel Theobald, and he IS the WasteWater Wizard. Welcome to the show Dan. DAN: Hey thank you. Glad to be here. TODD: Before we get into this take a second to tell us a little about you and your background. DAN: Yeah, I actually have a business ...
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Sustainable Caribbean Wastewater Strategy – St. Lucia Case Study
Island Water Technologies Inc. (IWT) was contracted by the Canaries Community Improvement Foundation (Canaries, St. Lucia) to undertake a wastewater feasibility report which was financed through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Program (SGP) under the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The scope of the project involved working with community representatives, to determine ...
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Urban water reform in Australia: lessons from 2003–2013
Extreme rainfall variability, record droughts, floods and high temperatures have had a major impact on social wellbeing, economic productivity and environmental functionality of urban settings in Australia. Compounded by urban growth and ageing water and wastewater infrastructure, Australia's urban water arrangements have undergone major reforms to effectively manage the challenges of ...
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Landis sewerage authority lift station monitoring - Case Study
Landis Sewerage Authority (LSA) serves the greater Vineland, New Jersey area. LSA was facing some typical problems monitoring their 23 lift stations. “Phone line problems with our autodialers were increasing almost as fast as Ma Bell's prices,” says Sam Hess, Collection System Plant Manager for the 8.2 MGD authority. “Additionally, every Wednesday when we would test our stand-by ...
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US Plan Takes Aim at Water Sector Cyberattacks
The plan attempts to unite government and sector players to secure water and wastewater treatment systems In January, the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan to fortify the nation’s water sector against cyberattacks. With its short, 100-day timeline, the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative-Water and Wastewater Sector Action Plan contains a number ...
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Building water system resilience with a digital roadmap
As water-reliant businesses increasingly focus on the growing challenge of disaster management in response to both natural and manmade events, process monitoring software suites have emerged as a key element when it comes to business continuity and resilience planning. More than any other component, water is essential in countless industries and business sectors, as well as a vital element for ...
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