City of Gallup Selects CH2M for Design-Build Operate Services to Improve City Services
DENVER, - The City of Gallup, New Mexico, council members approved an 8-year contract with CH2M to take over operations and maintenance of the city's 5-million-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment plant. In addition to Operations Management Services, CH2M will design and construct an upgrade to the current facility. Upgrades will help the community with odor-control issues and boost efficiency of biosolids disposal. "We are thrilled to have CH2M as our partner," said City of Gallup Mayor Jacki...
Emerging Ecological Risk Trends You Should Keep in Mind in 2017
In late 2016, the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry hosted one of the world’s most comprehensive conferences dedicated to environmental risk management. It’s the leading forum for scientists, industry and institutions engaged in the study of environmental contamination, management, ecological risk and research and development related to natural resources. Technical work featured at SETAC forms the basis for new and evolving solutions to environmental problems. CH2M employees...
City of Gallup Selects CH2M for Design-Build Operate Services to Improve City Services
DENVER - The City of Gallup, New Mexico, council members approved an 8-year contract with CH2M to take over operations and maintenance of the city’s 5-million-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment plant. In addition to Operations Management Services, CH2M will design and construct an upgrade to the current facility. Upgrades will help the community with odor-control issues and boost efficiency of biosolids disposal. “We are thrilled to have CH2M as our partner,” said...
Great Lakes Selects Lasse Petterson as CEO and Appoints him to its Board of Directors
OAK BROOK, Ill. - The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced today the selection of Lasse Petterson as CEO and his appointment to the Company’s Board of Directors. Chairman of the Board Michael J. Walsh said, “After a thorough and comprehensive search process, I am confident that the Board id...
President Signs WIIN Act Containing Water Supply Cost Savings Act Provisions Championed by Water Systems Council Into Law
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2016 - President Obama has signed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act into law, which includes provisions of the Water Supply Cost Savings Act championed by the Water Systems Council and other leading water well industry groups over the past three years. Originally introduced in the 113th Congress on September 18, 2014, the Water Supply Cost Savings Act ("Savings Act") was incorporated into the WIIN Act legislation earlier this year. Over the...
U.S. Environment Body EPA Says Fracking May Be Contaminating Groundwater After All
Stockholm, Sweden – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA today said activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle ‘can impact—and have impacted—drinking water resources’. The EPA’s latest findings are worrying in a world where the planet’s water resources are already under threat of contamination from multiple sources, according to Bluewater, a world leader in residential water purification. “The EPA has reversed course on fracking since issuing a version of its study a year ago...
Launch of the First Startup Dedicated to the Creation of Industrial Water Treatment Plants
Formerly CEO of Veolia Eau and Senior Executive Vice President of Veolia Environnement, Jean-Michel Herrewyn founded fWE, a "water asset developer", to address a global economic, ecological and social need: the lack of development and financing of water treatment facilities in manufacturing, particularly in developing countries. fWE provides a sustainable solution to the current under-investment in water treatment capacities, particularly in developing countries where the needs of major indu...
Congress Approves Water Projects Bill
The Senate voted 78 to 21, early on Dec. 10, to approve a bill that authorizes navigation, flood control and drinking water projects. That sent the measure to President Obama to sign into law. The House had passed the bill 360-61 on Dec. 8 and sent it to the Senate. capitol0816.jpgWhat was previously called the Water Resources Development Act had been recast in the final House-Senate conference version as the Water Infrastructure Improvements Act for the Nation, or WIIN Act. It also includ...
AASHTO Congratulates Congress on Passage of the WIIN Act
WASHINGTON - The American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials today congratulated Congress after passage of the Water Infrastructure Improvements Act for the Nation, or WIIN Act which includes the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016. "We applaud members of Congress, as well as House and Senate leadership, for finishing work on the WIIN Act and we look forward to President Obama's quick signature," said Bud Wright, AASHTO executive director. "AASHTO strongly su...
Flint Hires Arcadis To Plan Water Distribution System Improvements
FLINT, Mich., Dec. 12, 2016 -- Arcadis (EURONEXT:ARCAD), the leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets, has been selected by the City of Flint, Mich., to prepare a Water Distribution System Optimization Plan under a contract worth approximately $800,000. The plan is intended to guide improvements for the distributed water quality, sustainability and long-term operation of the city’s aging water system. A 2014 change in water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint R...
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