Water & Wastewater Newsletter
March 03, 2011
This Week´s Featured News Stories
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 allocated to EPA for distribution through this competitive grant program. The final budget is subject to Congressional appropriation.  "These grants will support critical work to protect the Great Lakes, ...
Urgent clean-up of South Africa toxic mine liquid
South Africa plans to set up a chain of pumping stations and treatment plants to prevent toxic liquids building up in defunct gold mines beneath Johannesburg from reaching dangerous levels. Water has already started leaking from abandoned mines west of Johannesburg in the so-called Western Basin.  Immediate action is needed because acidic mine water is expected to reach environmentally critical levels under Johannesburg by June 2012, government officials and scientists told reporters last week.  "Work in the Western Basin is immediate", Thibedi Ramontja, chief executive officer of ...
NEFCO, Inc.

Since Stamford Baffles were developed in the early 1980's, little research had been done to develop new and improved density current baffles. Over the four year period leading up to 2009, NEFCO, Incorporated performed extensive CFD modeling to develop larger Stamford Baffles, operating at the most optimum angle, resulting in the introduction of the 30 degree SB 2.0. The SB 2.0 has been proven by actual field data to improve clarifier performance by over 70%! NEFCO's most recent modeling, between 2009 and 2011, has shown that baffles with even larger horizontal projections then currently used, will further improve performance by another 5-10%!
 

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