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Estimating Free Water Metabolism
miniDOT loggers are used by a group of limnologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in order to estimate free water metabolism. During the summer of 2011, they placed the miniDOT loggers in large glass bottles incubated in lake water to estimate free water metabolism while removing much of the physical noise. The bottles were filled with lake water from various depths and then suspended ...
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Illinois’ First Environmental Contaminant Treatment (ECT) System
The Otter Lake Water Commission has installed our TrojanUVSwift™ECT – a technology which optimizes the treatment of environmental contaminants, particularly taste and odor-causing compounds found in surface waters. This is the first ECT installation and the first UV system to receive disinfection credits in the State of Illinois. Built in 1969, the Otter Lake Water Commission ...
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Crews plan to pump oil cargo from sunken barge in Lake Erie
Salvage crews are preparing for an underwater operation to pump a hazardous oil-based substance from a sunken barge that apparently had been sitting undiscovered on the bottom of Lake Erie for nearly 80 years. The crews expect to start assembling the pumps near the end of the week before they can begin moving the cargo to a barge on the surface. How fast that happens will depend a lot on ...
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EPA seeks candidates for advisory board on great lakes issues
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it is seeking candidates for the first advisory board to support federal agencies with the implementation of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the updated Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The Great Lakes Advisory Board will provide advice and recommendations to EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson in her capacity as federal ...
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FRIDAY: United States and Canada to announce great lakes water quality agreement
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent will sign an updated Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement on Friday, September 7th. Administrator Jackson and Minister Kent will hold a short press availability following the signing ceremony. The agreement, last updated in 1987, addresses critical health issues in the Great Lakes ...
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United States and Canada Sign Amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Canada’s Minister of the Environment Peter Kent today signed the newly amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement at a formal ceremony in Washington, D.C. First signed in 1972 and last amended in 1987, the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement is a model of binational cooperation to protect the world’s largest ...
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AWWA announces speakers for ACE17 in Philadelphia
The American Water Works Association announced today that Olympic champion Amy Van Dyken and a panel of water industry leaders will speak at the association’s Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE17), to be held June 11-14 in Philadelphia. Three noteworthy leaders in the water industry will be part of a panel discussion at ACE17’s Opening General Session at 8:30 a.m. on Mon., June ...
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TODAY: United States and Canada to Announce Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent will sign an updated Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement this afternoon. Administrator Jackson and Minister Kent will hold a short press availability following the signing ceremony. The agreement, last updated in 1987, addresses critical health issues in the Great Lakes region and is a ...
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EPA Offers $8.5 Million to U.S. Great Lakes Shoreline cities for green infrastructure projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has invited the 22 largest U.S. Great Lakes shoreline cities to apply for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding for green infrastructure projects that will improve Great Lakes water quality. “These Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants will be used for green infrastructure projects to reduce urban runoff and sewer overflows that foul ...
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Up to $40 million available from EPA for great lakes restoration projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the agency is requesting applications from states, municipalities, tribes and nonprofit organizations for new projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes. President Obama has proposed a total of $300 million in funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in Fiscal Year 2011, with approximately $40 million of that total ...
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The Great Lakes Water Utility Energy Challenge Launches!
The Great Lakes Protection Fund and American Water Works Association are excited to announce the launch of the Water Utility Energy Challenge (WUEC), an innovative program which engages water operators in a competition to reduce the emissions sourced in their energy generation. The competition is aimed at connecting the utilities with new innovative software while fostering an awareness of the ...
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EPA Solicits Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Grant Proposals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a solicitation for a second round of Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Grants. EPA will award grants totaling up to $4.5 million to eligible shoreline cities to fund green infrastructure projects that will improve Great Lakes water quality. This year, shoreline cities with a population greater than 25,000 and less than 50,000 will be eligible ...
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Pumping Station at the Danish Wadden Sea
An area at the Danish Wadden Sea, close to the German border, is protected for its outstanding natural beauty by the Danish National Nature Agency. Two DESMI pumps are installed in the Wadden Sea and pump sea water into a big lake. The sea water in the lake contributes to ensuring that birds continue to breed in the area. The pumping station is named Margrethe Kog. When the pumps are to be ...
By DESMI A/S
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Intelex cruise was a big splash!
Over the weekend Intelex employees had a chance to cruise the open water of Lake Ontario aboard the Northern Spirit for an evening of good food, amazing views, eclectic dancing and lots of laughs. This was the Intelex team building event of the summer and it did not disappoint. Some highlights of the night included an appearance from Intelex's very own Captain Japes (seen below), an epic ...
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Russia to close paper mill on Lake Baikal
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant threatening one of the world's largest fresh water lakes. Authorities first closed the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill in 2008 before it re-opened in 2010. Then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stressed then that the employment ...
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EPA releases first-ever baseline study of US lakes
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its most comprehensive study of the nation’s lakes to date. The draft study, which rated the condition of 56 percent of the lakes in the United States as good and the remainder as fair or poor, marked the first time EPA and its partners used a nationally consistent approach to survey the ecological and water quality of lakes. A total of ...
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EPA and U.S. Steel Provide $3.5 Million for Spirit Lake Cleanup Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that an additional $3.5 million has been made available for work in the Spirit Lake portion of the St. Louis River Area of Concern on Lake Superior near Duluth, Minnesota. EPA will provide $2.275 million through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and U.S. Steel will provide $1.225 million to study options for cleaning up contaminated ...
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New Sliding Pressure Doors
ROMAG has installed more than 2,300 pressure doors in Swiss drinking water reservoirs. It was only natural, therefore, that the flood protection sliding door at the Mapragg storage lake was designed and manufactured by ROMAG. Conventional pressure doors in reservoirs seal off the entrance that allows access to the water tanks (e.g. for maintenance work). Sliding pressure doors are closed ...
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Lake Pump Intake Screen
Lake Pump Intake Screen-YUBO New Wedge Wire Screen YUBO lake pump intake screen is a type of self-cleaning wedge wire screen. It is also known as a self-cleaning intake screen or lake water intake filter. The YUBO Wedge Wire Lake Pump Intake Screen is specifically designed to safeguard water pumps and other equipment from debris and contaminants present in lakes or other bodies of water. It is ...
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Dam covers `Boyuk Shore Lake` Azerbeidzjan
In the summer of 2015 the capital city of Baku, Azerbeidzjan, will be hosting the first ever to be held European Games. One of the venues is a new Olympic Stadium which is being built along the shores of Boyuk Shor Lake. The water and soil of the Boyuk Shore Lake suffers from dramatic pollution caused by waste of the petrochemcial industries surrounding the lake. Before the opening of the Games ...
By Genap B.V.
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