domestic wastewater News
-
Administration Presses for Marine Environment Protection in Wider Caribbean
This week President Bush transmitted to the U.S. Senate for its advice and consent for ratification, the Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities ('Protocol') to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region (1983 Cartagena Convention). Through this important milestone, the U.S. continues to demonstrate ...
-
Salher supplies two new hospital wastewater treatments in Paraguay
The Paraguayan Instituto de Previsión Social is implementing renovations and improvements in some of the country’s hospitals. For the modernization of their wastewater treatment systems, they have relied on Salher moving bed biofilm reactors with nitrogen removal. The choice of moving bed biofilm technology meets the need to remove the high polluting loads of hospital waters (much ...
By Salher
-
Another First for Newterra and Bermuda
We are very proud to share this project that showcases our ability to custom-engineered modular packaged plants for decentralized locations like Bermuda that help customers achieve lower costs, faster installation, and higher quality over on-site stick-built systems. The Newterra MBR wastewater systems will be treating domestic wastewater from a newly constructed collection system. This project ...
-
Severe Wastewater Testing Apparatus
The headspace in domestic wastewater collection and treatment systems is a severe environment that can impact even high performance protective coatings. A proposed new ASTM International standard covers an apparatus and set of procedures that are used to create and maintain a simulated sewer headspace environment to be used to test potential coatings. WK33537, Practice for Operating the Severe ...
-
Fluence Awarded Aspiral™ Wastewater Project in Changping District, Beijing, China
Fluence Corporation Limited (ASX: FLC) announced today that it has secured a contract from the Changping District government for the purchase of an Aspiral™ S1 smart-packaged MABR-based solution (formerly known as CMABR) for use in a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The plant will be located in Changping District, Municipality of Beijing, Hebei province, China. This is the first ...
-
GTI Covers Helping Protect California’s Water Supply
Geomembrane Technologies Inc. (GTI) is proud to be contributing to California’s water recycling efforts. One of the state’s water districts recently chose a GTI retractable structurally supported cover for the chlorine contact basin at its water recycling treatment plant. Given California’s drought and the lack of sustainable groundwater, water conservation is extremely ...
-
New wastewater treatment plant for German baby food manufacturer
A large German company, which belongs to a French dairy group, produces baby food and special medical nutrition at its site in Fulda. The cleaning processes involved in the production of milk powder create up to 850 m³ of wastewater contaminated with organic residue every day. In a bid to pre-clean the operational wastewater so that it reaches the same level of contamination as domestic ...
-
New Wastewater Treatment Plant for German Baby Food Manufacturer
A large German company, which belongs to a French dairy group, produces baby food and special medical nutrition at its site in Fulda. The cleaning processes involved in the production of milk powder create up to 850 m³ of wastewater contaminated with organic residue every day. In a bid to pre-clean the operational wastewater so that it reaches the same level of contamination as domestic ...
-
Incubating innovation
Since its inception last year, the technology centre for Keppel Seghers Belgium has been busy with projects. The Belgium-based outfit is currently running six projects, including the testing of flat sheet modules, membranes and domestic wastewater pretreatment processes. Two small pilots of fluidised bed cleaners will also be operational in the near future. With its fully equipped hall for ...
-
City of toppenish fined more than $134,000 for excess wastewater discharges
The City of Toppenish will pay $134,500 for excess pollution discharges from its municipal sewage treatment facility in violation of its Clean Water Act permit, according to an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The violations spanned more than two years from 2008-2010. The facility treats domestic wastewater from residential and commercial sources. The violations took ...
-
Students Awarded for work at Las Vegas Water Conference
This year The California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association is bringing together the best water industry professionals across two states to discuss and share solutions for the future. This event will take place one week from today, on October 26-29, 2015. The conference will be held at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the Annual Fall Awards Ceremony the Section ...
-
Pharma’s potential impact on water quality
Environmental Science & Technology When people take medications, these drugs and their metabolites can be excreted and make their way to wastewater treatment plants. From there, the compounds can end up in waterways. Wastewater from pharmaceutical companies could start off with even larger amounts of these substances. In ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology, researchers ...
-
New law means 400,00 septic tank licences for Ireland
New laws planned for next year mean that over 400,000 Irish homeowners will be forced to buy a licence for their septic tank for the first time. Environment Minister John Gormley said that he will introduce a licensing and inspection system for septic tanks, affecting 440,000 homes in rural areas. Under a new licensing system, a public body will undertake the inspections to ensure the septic ...
-
Genesis Water Technologies Secures New Contracts With Release of New Municipal Domestic Wastewater Reuse Video Using Advanced 3D Animation
MAITLAND, Fla., Nov. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Genesis Water Technologies, Inc., a USA-based global leader of innovative and sustainable water treatment solutions for drinking water, process water, and waste water applications, is proud to have released this week its new municipal domestic wastewater reuse video. It has already been instrumental in securing contracts for the firm. This video ...
-
Picerne Military Management to Pay $24,900 Penalty to Settle Violations of Clean Water Act at Fort Riley, Kan.
Picerne Military Management, LLC, has agreed to pay a $24,900 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act at Fort Riley, Kan. On Dec. 20 and 21, 2011, Picerne pumped between 5,000 and 9,000 gallons of raw sewage from a crawl space beneath a townhome into a storm drain inlet. Over the course of the two days, the raw sewage was pumped into and through the stormwater ...
-
Comprehensive testing program for `Nutrient & Ammonia Removal` from domestic wastewater using EEC package plant
To Simplify On-Site Treatment. A new unique modular containerised MBBR wastewater treatment system Called the 'High-Speed Bio Tec' designed by EEC Global Operation LLC and EEC (EUROPE) LTD South Cambridgeshire. The system is now installed for trial at Blackburn Meadows STW Sheffield, one of Yorkshire Water's prestigious sites. See right hand picture, 'New Testing System in England'. The ...
-
Strategic Partnership Announcement
Coeur d'Alene, ID - Blue Water Technologies, Inc. today announced the signing of a strategic agreement with The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE-SGR). The Shaw Group Inc. is a leading global provider of technology, engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, fabrication, manufacturing, consulting, remediation, and facilities management services for government and private sector clients. Blue Water ...
By Nexom
-
How to digitize your wastewater network with a smart water solution?
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that at least 23,000 to 75,000 sanitary sewer overflow events occur in the United States each year. These overflows are mainly caused by inadequate maintenance and aging sewer infrastructure.2 Next, to managing these overflows, municipalities across the USA are also facing challenging obligations to manage these systems at a time of ...
By KANDO
-
City of Bonners Ferry pays over $12,000 for federal clean water act violations (WA)
The City of Bonners Ferry, Idaho has agreed to pay a $12,300 penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at its wastewater treatment plant, according to an order from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. From June 2005 through May 2010, the plant had over 1,600 permit limit violations. The city’s Clean Water Act violations included exceeding discharge limits for Escherichia ...
-
Safeguarding public health and protecting the environment
Stormwater and wastewater from domestic, industrial, and commercial activities has the potential to contaminate the water table. Regular filtration-based tests help water quality engineers assess and treat wastewater appropriately to meet international standards. Learn more about the international standards of water testing and filters that meets these standards in your ...
By Cytiva
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you