wastewater discharge compliance News
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City of Jerome, Idaho Settles Wastewater Permit Violations with EPA
Wastewater discharged into the Snake River, the J8 canal and other waters will be cleaner as a result of a recent settlement between the City of Jerome, Idaho and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The City has agreed to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant to ensure the facility has the capacity to handle future discharges. The Clean Water Act requires that wastewater discharges comply ...
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The Environmental Resource Tool Box
The WastewaterWizard Presents: The Environmental Resource Tool Box: Containing; Tools for Measuring Environmental Compliance! The Four Tools for Measuring Environmental Compliance are as follows: 1.) Permitting 2.) Operating 3.) Training 4.) Ask; The Wastewater Expert The Environmental Permitting Tool executes; The Evaluation of existing and upcoming Local and Federal Environmental ...
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Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Moving to 24/7 COD Monitoring
The University of Guelph, based in Ontario Canada conducted a detailed study to demonstrate that PeCOD could accurately correlate to CODCr and rapidly measure organic matter for the City of Guelph Waste Water Treatment Plant. The study resulted in the City investing in a PeCOD unit to enabling 24/7 COD monitoring. Previously the City only measured COD up to 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (when the ...
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Infrared Analysis Reduces Regulatory Fats, Oil and Grease (FOG) Testing Costs and Provides Fast Results
With over 4,000 oil and grease monitors in world-wide use today, InfraCal 2 Analyzers, originally developed by Wilks, have become a standard for the petrochemical and environmental industries. Wastewater professionals need a fast, rugged, easy to use option for monitoring wastewater discharge that doesn't cost them a fortune. This video shows how easy the InfraCal is to use. Wastewater ...
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Compliance with discharge permits for oil in water
Determining total oil/grease levels to ensure compliance with governmental permit requirements for discharging wastewater is a worldwide problem for the oil and gas industry. To ensure compliance with regulations and avoid fines for exceeding permit discharge levels, more frequent wastewater measurements are necessary to determine the total oil/grease (TOG) concentration. Wilks Enterprise, Inc. ...
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On-Site Measurement of Oil/Grease in Wastewater Helps Ensure Compliance with Discharge Permits
Determining total oil/grease levels in wastewater for compliance with governmental regulatory discharge permits is a worldwide problem facing numerous industries including chemical, oil and gas, biofuels, and other industrial manufacturing plants. To ensure compliance with discharge regulations and avoid fines for exceeding permit levels, more frequent wastewater measurements are necessary to ...
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EPA, Department of Justice, and Hecla Limited settle Clean Water Act violations, reduce pollution bound for South Fork Coeur d’Alene River
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, and Hecla Limited, owner of the Lucky Friday Mine and Mill, have reached a settlement concerning water pollution violations near the headwaters of the South Fork Coeur d’Alene River. The South Fork Coeur d’Alene River runs through the heart of North Idaho’s “Silver Valley,” ambitiously recovering ...
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U.S. EPA orders companies in Visalia, Calif., to protect Mill Creek from polluted wastewater
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the resolution of a series of enforcement actions for Clean Water Act violations at three manufacturing companies located in Visalia, Calif. The facilities owned by Univar USA, Advanced Food Products, and Milk Specialties Global discharge industrial wastewater to the city’s sanitary sewer system, which eventually flows into Mill Creek. The ...
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New Report: Major Food Companies Must Adapt to Escalating Global Water Risks
Major U.S. food companies need to adopt far stronger practices to use limited global water resources more efficiently, according to a report released today by Ceres, a nonprofit sustainability advocacy group. The report, Feeding Ourselves Thirsty: How the Food Sector is Managing Global Water Risks, ranks the nation’s 37 largest food companies on how effectively they are managing precious ...
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