Native Plant Nursery Relocated as Oro Loma Prepares for New Project to Improve Water Quality in San Francisco Bay
SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Sept. 20, 2018 - Oro Loma is set to embark on an exciting new wastewater treatment project this fall. As a result, the native plant nursery established at the District in 2014 in partnership with Save The Bay has a new home. The nursery, originally created as a place to grow seedlings for the Horizontal Levee project, is now adjacent to the levee itself on the Oro Loma site. Here, the nursery will continue to benefit from Oro Loma's available land and non-potable water supp...
CDM Smith Selected to Design and Build Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment System for Lubrizol
DEER PARK, Texas—CDM Smith was recently selected by The Lubrizol Corporation, a specialty chemicals company, to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a $16 million industrial wastewater pretreatment system at Lubrizol’s Deer Park, Texas facility. The project supports a larger expansion at the facility, where Lubrizol is building a new Polyisobutylene unit. “CDM Smith is excited to continue supporting growth throughout the Gulf Coast, and we’re proud to be suppor...
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Receives $699 Million EPA Loan for Wastewater Upgrades
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a $699 million low-interest loan to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to help finance its innovative Southeast Treatment Plant Biosolids Digester Facilities Project. Under the EPA’s Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA), a program offering as much as $5.5 billion in loans, SFPUC received the largest amount issued to date to fund approximately half of the $1.2 billion biosoli...
Australian Technology Company Develops, Patents and Exports Globally Significant, Wastewater Treatment Technology
HOUSTON - Hydrus Technology Holdings Pty Ltd (HTH) an Australian company with its research & development facility in Brisbane, Australia has successfully developed, patented and launched its leading-edge HTX wastewater treatment technology to the global market. David Cam, the CEO of the company said, "Our HTX branded electrochemical wastewater treatment processes provide better wastewater treatment outcomes and economics than are otherwise available today." The HTX technology, developed in Austr...
Video: Kaneohe-Kailua Sewer Tunnel and TIPS Project Overview
Connecting the Kaneohe Wastewater Pre-Treatment Facility to the Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant via a three-mile long gravity sewer tunnel, the $375 million Kaneohe-Kailua Wastewater Conveyance and Treatment Facilities Project increases Windward Oahu's wastewater conveyance and storage capacity while reducing overflows.
Channel Mixers For Municipalities, Komax on a Large Scale
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - The treatment of raw water entering a Water Treatment Plant through a rectangular channel can seem like a daunting task with an added problem of low allowable pressure drop, injection of chemicals, and the desired homogenous blend of output downstream. How can this all be accomplished? Inline static mixer giant, Komax Systems, Inc. has the answer! "Our customers are municipal water treatment plants who either want to treat the raw water coming into the water treat...
Singapore’s Advanced Wastewater Treatment Technologies Win Global Recognition
PUB’s continuous R&D and innovation efforts to improve the efficiency of its water treatment process and operations has earned itself a feather in its cap. Its wastewater treatment demonstration plant at Ulu Pandan, set up specially to test advanced used water treatment processes before full deployment in future, has captured global attention and won the Water/Wastewater Project of the Year Award at the 2018 Global Water Awards in Paris, France. This International Award recognises the most impor...
New Report: Companies Reap Significant Benefits Using Building Information Modeling for Water and Wastewater Projects
NEW YORK – Advanced technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) are rapidly gaining traction on infrastructure projects around the world. A new report published today, The Business Value of BIM for Water Projects SmartMarket Report, demonstrates the industry is accelerating its implementation of BIM, a reversal of the findings of previous studies on this topic by Dodge Data & Analytics, which indicated that the water sector has been slower to embrace BIM than other sectors such as t...
Stantec’s Design of Sacramento River Joint Intake and Fish Screen Facility Earns Outstanding Water/Wastewater Project Award in California
Sacramento, CA, NYSE, TSX:STN: Global design firm Stantec’s work on the Sacramento River Joint Intake and Fish Screen Facility was recently named the Outstanding Water/Wastewater Treatment Project of the year by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Sacramento Section. The intake/fish screen facility protects young salmon and endangered native fish, while providing irrigation for 15,000 acres of cropland and a more reliable water supply for the cities of Davis and Woodland. The...
Tracking Wastewater’s Path to Wells, Groundwater
We often “flush it and forget it” when it comes to waste from toilets and sinks. However, it’s important to be able to track this wastewater to ensure it doesn’t end up in unwanted places. A group of Canadian scientists has found an unlikely solution. Tracing where this water ends up is hard to measure: What’s something found in all wastewater that will allow us to account for all of it? The answer, of all things, is artificial sweeteners. These have several advantages over other compounds so...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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