NASTT turns 25 in 2015! What was happening 25 years ago?
On August 17, 199, The Exorcist III premiered starring George C. Scott.
On August 20, 1990, George Steinbrenner stepped down as NY Yankee owner.
On August 22, 1990, Pump Up the Volume was released in theaters starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.
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Engineering and environmental firm, Woodard & Curran, moved up twelve spots to number 55
on Engineering News Record’s (ENR) annual list of the Top 200 Environmental Firms in the United States. For over 35 years, Woodard & Curran has helped clients’ address environmental needs nationwide.
ENR calculates the annual rankings based on revenue from environmental projects, which includes water and wastewater, stormwater, environmental cleanup, and more.
“Continuing to climb in the rankings is important to us, not just in the numbers, but in what it means regarding the impact we are having on some of the nation’s most complex environmental issues,” Doug McKeown, CEO of Woodard & Curran said. “It always feels good to be recognized for our hard-earned accomplishments, and this list has become a great way for us to gauge our progress as we continue to innovate and look for new solutions for our clients.”
Despite an overall contraction that, according to ENR, saw revenue for the top 200 firms as a whole decrease in revenue more than 4 percent this year, Woodard & Curran grew 16 percent. This represents the eighth consecutive year of revenue growth for Woodard & Curran.
Woodard & Curran is an integrated engineering, science, and operations company serving clients locally and nationwide. The firm employs more than 850 people across the country at offices in Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. Visit www.woodardcurran.com for more information.
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Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the completion of a water line extension that will provide a safe source of drinking water to 73 homes and businesses threatened by contaminated groundwater from the Combe Fill South Landfill Superfund site in Chester and Washington Townships in N.J. As a result, those homes and local businesses will no longer need treatment systems. EPA Superfund Director Walter Mugdan and Chester Township Mayor Bill Cogger marked the milestone with a toast of clean drinking water.
“This water line will permanently supply clean drinking water to homes and businesses that had previously gotten their water from groundwater threatened by the landfill contamination,” said EPA Region 2 Superfund Director Walter Mugdan. “The completion of the water line is the culmination of a partnership between the EPA, Chester and Washington Townships and the Washington Township Municipal Utilities Authority.”
The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for cleanups, not taxpayers. The EPA searches for parties legally responsible for the contamination of Superfund sites and holds those parties accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups. In this instance, EPA has recovered more than $50 million in past costs from responsible parties which was made available to fund ongoing work at the site, including construction of the $9 million water line extension.
Starting in the early 1990s, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection began providing in-home water treatment systems to residents whose wells were potentially impacted by contamination coming from the landfill. The new water line extension provides a permanent safe water supply to the neighborhood around the landfill. The water line extension, which connects homes and businesses along Parker Road, School House Lane, and a small portion of Route 24, will be operated and maintained by the Washington Township Municipal Utilities Authority.
The 65-acre Combe Fill South Landfill is located in Morris County, NJ, and served as a municipal landfill from the 1940s until 1981. Soil and groundwater beneath the site were contaminated by volatile organic compounds from the landfill. Volatile organic compounds can have serious impacts on people’s health. In 1978, Combe Fill Corporation bought the landfill and operated the site in violation of New Jersey’s solid waste laws. Combe Fill Corporation went bankrupt in 1981 and the landfill was not properly closed.
Approximately 170 people live within half a mile of the landfill and most of them use private wells as their source of drinking water. The EPA added the site to the Superfund list of the most contaminated hazardous waste sites in 1983.
The original cleanup plan for the site included capping the landfill, installing a landfill gas collection system, pumping and treating the shallow groundwater beneath the site, and installing stormwater runoff controls. All of these cleanup measures were successfully completed and the system to treat shallow groundwater continues to operate at the site. A study of the landfill’s impact on a deeper layer of groundwater is ongoing.
Source: EPA.gov
NASTT turns 25 in 2015! What was happening 25 years ago?
On August 10, 1990, US’s Magellan spacecraft landed on Venus.
On August 12, 1990, “Sue“, the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
On August 15, 1990, Mark McGwire is first to hit 30 HRs in each of his first four seasons.
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Xylem’s Godwin pumps to fill new Panama Canal lock basins with 1.7 billion gallons of water
BRIDGEPORT, New Jersey, July 29, 2015 – Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL), a leading global water technology company, is playing an important role in the Panama Canal Expansion Program. Xylem is providing its heavy duty Godwin dewatering pumps to fill the third set of basin locks on the Pacific Ocean sector, with 1.7 billion gallons of water, as part of performance trials for the system prior to its commissioning.
The Panama Canal Expansion Program is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2016. It creates a new traffic lane and builds two new lock complexes, one on the Atlantic Ocean and the other on the Pacific, allowing for the passage of New Panamax ships, doubling the capacity of the Canal.
“We are honored to work with the Authority of the Panama Canal (ACP) and to be part of this project which expands one of the world’s most important transport routes,” said Colin Sabol, Senior Vice President and President of Xylem’s Dewatering business.
This is the second project that the ACP has awarded to Xylem under the Panama Canal Expansion Program. Earlier this year, Xylem supplied 64 Flygt mixers to prevent the formation of corrosive deposits on the rolling gates during installation.
To support the dewatering project, Xylem installed 15 Godwin diesel-driven pumps, deployed from the U.S. In June, these pumps transported up to 122 million gallons of water per day (MGD) from the Miraflores Lake to fill the third set of locks on the Pacific. Over a period of 22 days, the project consisted of pumping enough water to fill 90,000 average sized swimming pools.
Xylem is providing turnkey services and equipment for the project, with Xylem’s highly-skilled engineers designing and installing the system, which also includes 13,500 feet (more than 2.5 miles) of 18-inch high-density polyethylene pipeline (HDPE) to transfer the massive amounts of water. Xylem is also supervising the performance of the 15 Godwin pumps with its remote pump monitoring system called Field Smart Technology.
Jorge Alvarado, Managing Director for Xylem Latin America North, added, “Xylem is providing its global experience at a local level. With the world’s largest inventory of rental pumps and related equipment, Xylem has the ability to mobilize our vast resources quickly. In combination with the local presence and engagement of our Panama-based team, we are able to rapidly deliver the quality services demanded by the ACP for the execution of the Expansion Program project.”
The third set of basin locks includes reuse basins that will save water and also improve the Panama Canal’s efficiency, using seven percent less water compared with the amount currently used by the existing locks. In addition, in each transit operation, 60 percent of the water will be recycled.
About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology provider, enabling customers to transport, treat, test and efficiently use water in public utility, residential and commercial building services, industrial and agricultural settings. The company does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands, and its people bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on finding local solutions to the world’s most challenging water and wastewater problems. Xylem is headquartered in Rye Brook, N.Y., with 2014 revenues of $3.9 billion and approximately 12,500 employees worldwide. Xylem was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last three years for advancing sustainable business practices and solutions worldwide.
The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all — that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit www.xyleminc.com