Meaford Canada: A new $29-million sewage treatment plant for Meaford has been put on hold by council. (SNIPPED) Creech said an upgrade of the existing plant is being planned essentially for future growth of the community - growth that may or may not come. The municipality has no reserves set aside for the project and does not have sufficient development charges cash available to assist with the costs. In addition, development proposals in Meaford are of a relatively small scale that they can't contribute major dollars for capital sewage plant upgrades. Read on>>> ABERDEEN SCOTLAND: Scientists raise a wee dram to new way to clean waste water using a "secret" by product of (Glenfiddich) whisky on contaminated groundwater Read on >>
NEW DELHI March 1: Spurred by a more than three-fold increase in the budgetary allocation for Delhi, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday announced that the government will soon be laying down sewers in 200 villages in the city. Read on >>
UK: It takes seven litres of water to manufacture each of the 13 billion plastic bottles in which water is sold in the UK. Each bottle uses 162g of oil and creates 100g of carbon dioxide emissions. Read on >>
GEORGIA: People don't like the idea of drinking water that's gone through the sewers," said Kung'u, the director of DeKalb's watershed management department. He will ask the County Commission to pay for a feasibility study this month, and said a re-use plant could be operational in five years. Read on >>
AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was a farm idea with a big payoff and supposedly no downside: ridding lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer. Then last week, a federal judge ordered the Agriculture Department to compensate a farmer whose land was poisoned by sludge from the waste treatment plant here. His cows had died by the hundreds Read on>>
SOUTH DAKOTA: voters approved a ballot measure in 1990 that requires the Legislature to decide if large waste disposal sites are environmentally safe and in the public interest. The bill seeks to exempt the meatpacking plant at Aberdeen from that requirement, he said, taking no position on the bill. Read on>>
ZIMBABWE: "The contractor (Draw Card Enterprises) has so far been given $2,1 trillion but has indicated to us that he would carry out the de-sludging exercise at all the three plants once he receives the full amount," he said. The exercise, Eng Muserere added, would not take more than five months once the contractor gets paid the full amount. "Negotiations are underway with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe," he revealed. Read on>>
STANWOOD WASHINGTON -- The water in Stanwood may taste a little different by the end of the year.Chlorine is planned to be used to treat Stanwood's drinking water once construction is finished on a new water treatment plant, which could be finished by late October. Read on>>
SAN FRANCISCO: SOME 2.7 MILLION gallons of partially treated sewage were accidentally released into Richardson Bay Thursday night after rains overwhelmed a Mill Valley treatment plant when an operator left two pumps off. Read on>>
UK: Removing fine solids from waste water discharge Finlay's, a leading UK manufacturer of decaffeinated and specialty teas, turned to sieving and filtration specialist Russell Finex to help reduce BOD levels in their decaffeination process waste water (SNIP) Finlay's realised this new state-of-the-art Liquid Solid Separator was exactly the solution they were looking for. The centrifugal action of the Liquid Solid Separator removes many potential contaminants including leaf tea and tea fines from the water being discharged into the local sewage system Read on>>
DARWIN NT: Fish and birds are reported to be living in and around the pool, along with a dangerous reptile. "She is a good-size breeding female" - Tom Nichols Catchers laid a trap and eventually captured the crocodile, but they found she needed to be tempted by a change of menu Read on >>
LIVERMORE CALIF: – Jan. 17, 2008 – Purfresh, formerly known as Novazone, Inc., a leading provider of clean solutions for food and water, announced today that Pequawket Water Company has installed Purfresh’s ozone disinfection system to process millions of gallons of Bulk Maine Spring Water annually in its state-of-the-art facility Read on>>
GREAT BARRIER REEF: Today there are hundreds of charter boats doing two trips a week and each of them is dumping a 44-gallon drum amount of what I call cocktail sewage," he said. "I saw a mullet once with a tampon still hanging out of its mouth. Read on >>
SAN MATEO CALIFORNIA: Authorities who provide sewage service for central San Mateo County say they are tired of inmates flushing orange jumpsuits, bedsheets, hairbrushes, garbage bags and mayonnaise containers down the toilets at the men's jail — and they're suing to put a stop to it. Read on >>
MELBOURNE: The water is being processed at the Brushy Creek Sewage Treatment plant, at Chirnside Park, east of Melbourne, after a $2.5-million dollar upgrade. (SNIP) Councils have been able to get recycled water from the Werribee Treatment plant but transport costs made it too expensive. Read on >>
USA: Cllr Moseley said, “I live close to this site, and like many residents I suffer from the noise, so I know just how bad it is. Read on >>
USA: She's never had an addictive personality, but Madonna recently confided to a pal that she picked up a $10,000-per-month habit - water. Madonna only drinks specially blessed Kabbalah water and she told a pal that she spends an average of $10,000 on the liquid for her and her family of five Read on...
GENEVA: ISO has just published three standards providing guidelines for service activities relating to drinking water supply systems and wastewater sewerage systems. These international standards are designed to help water authorities and their operators to achieve a level of quality that best meets the expectations of users and the principles of sustainable development. Read on...
TIMARU: Staff at the plant that screens Timaru's waste water and sewage are waiting for their first iPod to appear. A large variety of items have made their way to the Aorangi Road milliscreen plant over the years, including cellphones, children's toys, clothing, glasses, false-teeth and money. An iPod is still to make its way through the screen. Read on...
MELBOURNE: City West Water has sold nearly 114 million litres of Class A recycled water in the first 12 months of operation at its two recycling standpipes. The plant is earning a pretty penny from sales, with government and industry buyers forking out 71 a litre for the precious former sewage. Read on...
WASHINGTON: READ FULL ARTICLE HERE at least 2.6 billion people – some 41 percent of the global population - do not have access to latrines or any sort of basic sanitation facilities. As a result millions suffer from a wide range of preventable illnesses, such as diarrhoea, which claim thousands of lives each day, primarily young children. To put the spotlight on this issue the UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 the International Year of Sanitation.
ALMA KANSAS: He said the new wastewater treatment system has been made necessary because of the content of the waste released by Alma Foods into the system. Baker said the biochemical oxygen demand of the Alma Foods waste is high, meaning it takes more space to keep the treatment system at allowable levels. In addition, he said high BOD waste requires upgrades of other equipment, including small bubble diffusers Read on...
DUTCH ANTILLES: Guests at the Sunset Waters Beach Resort on the west coast of Curacao, Dutch Antilles, feast their eyes on more than palm fronds and an aqua sea. Just past the hotel's entrance there's also an unobstructed view of cement blocks, coral fragments and black plastic tubing, all part of the new waste-water treatment facility that the owners chose to deliberately place in plain sight. ``I thought we would give it preeminence,'' says resort co- owner Ricki Harris. Unsightly as it may be" Read on...
CANBERRA: The federal opposition has called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to pressure state governments to stop dumping sewage into Australia's coastal waters. Environment spokesman Greg Hunt will meet later this month with his state Liberal counterparts to plan a Clean Up Our Coasts campaign aimed at forcing state governments to recycle sewage water currently being dumped into the ocean. Read on...
MELBOURNE: OF FERRIS wheels and fashionistas, Melbourne is lurching towards a probable population of 10 million later this century, and it is unprepared. (SNIP) Current architecture in Melbourne has been slow to reflect a response to global issues including meeting Kyoto targets and creating a sustainable environment. Issues of sustainability, low carbon footprints, drought, waste, emissions and global warming are exacerbated as populations grow intensely, quite apart from normal concerns for comfort, usefulness, affordability and beauty. Substantial plans should be in order now Read full article....
EcoWorld: When addressing the challenge to provide abundant clean energy and water, decentralized solutions are becoming increasingly attractive. (SNIP) By treating the water upstream, neighborhood assets requiring irrigation can receive the treated discharge, which in-turn can percolate underground and help refill aquifers. Large-scale sewage treatment plants are often unable to make use of the treated water and instead of being recycled and returned to the aquifers upstream, much of it is discharged into rivers. Read on...
SAN FERNANDO CITY PHILLIPINES: The system consisted using of grit screens, septic tanks and an anaerobic baffled reactor that reduces the biochemical oxygen demand from more than 300 milligrams per liter to less than 30.The San Fernando design caters up to 300 cubic meters of wastewater. Mayor Pablo Ortega, who led the launching, narrated that Vietnam’s wastewater treatment plant is bigger by twenty times more that can generate less water supply costs. Read on...
NEW YORK: Investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will buy a majority interest in family-owned Marmon Holdings Inc., a large conglomerate which includes a number of companies in the water treatment industry (SNIP) Berkshire Hathaway will initially pay about $4.5 billion for a 60 percent interest in Marmon Read on...
(CNN) -- The next time you fall sick and someone suggests it's because of something in the water, they could be right. According to the World Bank, 88 percent of all diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene. Nanhu Lake in Chongqing, China. Around 70 percent of China's rivers and lakes are polluted. The number are daunting. Annually, water-related problems are responsible for: 4 billion cases of diarrhea, resulting in the deaths of more than 6 million children. 300 million malaria sufferers; 200 million schistosomiasis sufferers; 6 million people who have been struck blind by trachoma; and 500 million people who are currently at risk of contracting it, the World Bank says. Read on...
HA NOI — A new innovative system is helping Ha Nam Province’s general hospital to treat its wastewater cheaper and more effectively. Kim Bang General Hospital was selected to implement the Decentralised Wastewater Treatment System or DEWATS – a modern method that uses microorganisims already present in the water together with a natural disintegration process to treat wastewater Read on...
PERTH WA: Human waste from the new mega-library in Peppermint Grove will be recycled and used on a $1 million landscaped park around the building. It will be the first time the technology has been used in Australia. Read on...
DUBAI: Dubai's Palm Utilities, a unit of Istithmar, has awarded an $800 million (Dh2.94 billion) contract to a unit of French firm Suez Environment to set up and operate a sewage treatment plant in Dubai as increase in population is fuelling the city's water usage. (SNIP) The treated water will be used for irrigation purposes at Jumeirah Golf Estates, a mixed-use real estate development Read on...
SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA: For the first time, the San Diego City Council overcame a veto by Mayor Jerry Sanders on a major issue. Even more remarkable was the subject they chose to confront him on: launching a controversial initiative that could make San Diego one of the few cities in the country that recycles its wastewater in its reservoirs. (snip) Representatives from businesses, environmental groups, a leading taxpayer group and a scientific society urged the council to move ahead into what is essentially a new study phase for water recycling. Several of them pointed to Orange County, where agencies tout their massive plant designed to inject heavily treated wastewater into the aquifer system. Read on...
MALAWI: Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts : Farmers explain Malawi’s extraordinary turnaround — one with broad implications for hunger-fighting methods across Africa — with one word: fertilizer. Read on...
ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: Orange County needs more reliable, high-quality water in the future to replenish the groundwater basin, to protect the groundwater basin from seawater intrusion, and for industrial uses (snip) The previously treated sewer water will undergo an advanced treatment process that includes two membrane filtration systems - microfiltration and reverse osmosis disinfection and treatment by ultraviolet light and hydrogen peroxide. Once purified, the water will be sent to recharge facilities or injection wells. The newly purified water will seep into the ground, like rain, and blend with groundwater Read on...
ARIZONA: A monitoring report produced by McDuffy Lab shows the Gravois Mills sewer plant’s biochemical oxygen demand [BOD] has fallen from a high of 53 in October to just under 4 milligrams per liter this month. Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources [MDNR] allows up to 20 mg/l BOD, according to sewer officials. The plant, which serves more than 165 homes and businesses in this lakeside village, began treating sewage in March of this year.Ray Metscher, Gravois Arm Sewer District plant operator and former board of trustees chair, said fixing the BOD involved a learning curve — and giving the plant a lot of attention. “We’ve had all the sales and manufacturing reps in, we’ve had Missouri Water Resources guys in and they all had different recommendations,” Metscher said last week. “In the end, it amounted to operating it as an extended air plant, which means we’re returning part of our sludge to the process to keep the bug content up.” Read on...
FRANCE: The EBRD is investing up to €105 million for a 10 percent stake in Veolia Voda, with the aim of boosting the role of the private sector in the provision of water and wastewater services especially in Russia and Ukraine Read on...
CANBERRA: The Queanbeyan Council says Telstra is to blame for its inability to stop the sewage leak that led to the closure of Lake Burley Griffin a fortnight ago. Read on...
IRAQ: November 19, 2007: Apparently the recent cholera outbreaks, in some parts of Iraq, have been caused by a breakdown of already decrepit water and sewage treatment facilities. Read on...
UNITED NATIONS: "The international community has failed to deliver on this basic right. Today, more than 2 billion people around the world lack access to basic sanitation services," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in naming 2008 the U.N.'s International Year of Sanitation to highlight the problem. Some 90 percent of the human sewage in developing countries goes untreated and is allowed to pollute the public's water supplies, for lack of sewage treatment plants, according to U.N. figures. "An estimated 42,000 people die every week from diseases related to low water quality and an absence of adequate sanitation. And this situation is unacceptable," Ban said. Read on...
INDIA BHABANESWAR: Tall structures and multistorey buildings in the city must now have planned waste water disposal facilities, inspected jointly by Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), before permission is accorded for start of construction. Read on...
AUSTRALIA BATEMANS BAY: Treated sewage at EcoPoint Murramarang Resort is now good enough to drink - although there’s no plans to introduce it as the latest beverage of choice. Read on...
HAWAII: $38 million bioconversion facility that turns dried sewage sludge into fertilizer pellets, and a $100 million disinfection unit that blasts treated wastewater with ultraviolet light to kill pathogens Read on...
GIPPSLAND: Siemens Water Technologies has been awarded a 2.6 million euro (4.26M AUD; 3.6M USD) contract by the Gippsland Water Factory Alliance (GWFA). Siemens will supply membranes and associated core system components for a membrane bioreactor (MBR) system as part of the new water factory project in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The MBR will treat up to 35 million liters per day (MLD) of domestic and industrial wastewater, and will provide the feed for the reverse osmosis system to produce approximately 8 MLD of Class A recycled water for use by local industry. The project is scheduled for completion in late 2008. Read on...
USA: Concord Mass. In fact, the Penacook facility cleans up .6 million gallons of wastewater per day. The Concord plant, built in 1981, handles 4.5 million gallons. It also takes in the contents of septic tanks and RV bathrooms. Read on...
QUEENSLAND: People may turn up their noses at the thought of using reclaimed water, but a study by the South Australian Research and Development Institute has found that it is not just an alternative source of water for crops, but may be more beneficial than mains water. Dr Belinda Rawnsley, who led the three-year $350,000 study funded by the Grape and Wine Research Development Corporation, says the results are good news for vignerons and horticulturists looking for sustainable irrigation. Read on...
MALAYSIA: The pig farms that polluted the rivers in the past have toed the line drawn by the Natural Resources and Environmental Board (NREB). (SNIP) officials took samples of water discharged from Yin Yan Pig Farm into Sungai Siniawan on Monday, and found the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) over five days was recorded at 51.2mg per litre of water. This is well below the maximum 250mg/l under the water quality standard for the country. Read on...
CANADA: Mayor Colin Kinsley’s argument that Prince George’s population couldn’t have declined between 2001 and 2006 because organic waste at the city’s sewage treatment plant has increased approximately 15 per cent is one the commission is likely to remember. Employment statistics can be misleading, vacancy rates can deceive, but poo never lies !! :) . Read on...
USA ANN ARBOR: The City of Ann Arbor, MI now provides water utility customers with real-time, customer specific usage data and bill statement summaries on the city’s Internet site at www.a2gov.org Read on...
CHINA: More than half of China's 1.3 billion people, living in 278 cities, live without any form of sewage treatment, state media said, quoting city planning officials.
And eight of those cities have populations of more than 500,000, Zhao Baojiang, chairman of the China association of city planning, was quoted as saying. Read on...
IRAQ: Located in Baghdad’s 4-square-mile Green Zone, the embassy will occupy 104 acres. (snip) its own electricity plant, fresh water and sewage treatment facilities New link....
USA New Jersey CHATHAM -- The borough council has approved a $388,000 contract to overhaul a Depression-era sewage pumping station that is being held together with the help of an old Buick. The Jackson Avenue Pump Station, in operation since 1938, will have all of its equipment Read on...
USA: Recently, the U.S. conference of mayors adopted a resolution calling attention to the negative environmental impact of bottled water. The resolution stated, "Bottled water must travel many miles from the source, resulting in the burning of massive amounts of fossil fuels, releasing CO2 and other pollution into the atmosphere; and, plastic water bottles are one of the fastest growing sources of municipal waste."
Industry Standards approved water dispensers provide a green alternative to bottled water by filtering the water source supplied to the office. There is virtually no waste that results in the process.
Already major clients in 46 states have signed on to use these approved products. Clients include Microsoft, FedEx, Marriott Hotels, UBS, HSBC Bank, AARP, Home Depot, Nike and several other Fortune 500 companies.
Dispensers has proven to be approximately half the cost of a bottled water solution, uses 65% less energy than typical water coolers, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 98% when compared to bottled water. What's more, the water from these approved products is likely to be safer (than bottled water) . Bottled water is filtered, and then stored without refrigeration, often harboring millions of bacteria per glass. While the International Bottled Water Association recommends that the water storage tanks of every bottled cooler be sanitized monthly, this is rarely done. Furthermore, a very large percentage of bottled water is simple filtered municipal tap water.
Indeed, cost savings and environmental concerns are what drove San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's recent decision to prohibit city departments from buying bottled water. Los Angeles and Salt Lake City have also made it illegal to spend city money on bottled water. There is also a trend away from bottled water in upscale restaurants across the nation.
"The message is clear," said Doughty. "Civic and business leaders, who understand the tremendous negative environmental impact of bottled water, are urging citizens to turn on the tap. And yet, unfiltered tap water carries potential health risks and perception problems of its own. Spectrum Water Coolers offers the best of both worlds: clean filtered water with no bottles. It's the perfect solution for safe, affordable drinking water."
STOLKHOLM: A 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm that began with a call for governments around the world to better manage their existing water resources concluded Friday morning with the 2,500 participants from 140 countries saying, collectively that progress is being made, but in the face of global poverty, critical lack of sanitation, water scarcity and climate change, we all need to do much better Read on...NORTH CAROLINA: ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. Residents and officials here both agree that there's a need for a central sewer system, but they're on opposite sides in looking at the impact of building one. Read on...
WASHINGTON: Called a closed-loop system, the plan is to pump the county's sewage to treatment stations and then route the treated sewage, known as effluent, to area power plants. Instead of groundwater, the plants would use the effluent for their cooling towers and other operations. Read on...
WA: mosquito breeding in northern WA at this time of year is also often associated with man-made or artificial water bodies such as dams, sewage lagoons, Read on...SEATTLE: In the Seattle study, fish toxicity tests were performed using a water runoff sample collected from a fund-raising car wash event held in a parking lot and compared against a simulated run-off sample that was potable. The car wash runoff sample caused 100 percent mortality of fish in all dilution steps tested, while all the fish survived in the potable water. Detergents, including those that are biodegradable, can be harmful to fish by destroying their protective mucus membranes. In addition, detergents can damage fish gills and wash away natural oils that help fish absorb oxygen. Under the federal Clean Water Act, a commercial car wash can't send their dirty water into storm drains. The water must be discharged into a separate sanitary sewer or treated and recycled Read on...
STOLKHOLM:To meet the challenge of global water scarcity, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) will on Monday, August 13, call for governments around the world to better manage how they use their existing water resources, taking necessary and sometimes painful measures to decrease losses in water delivery infrastructure and irrigation, to cut subsidies to agriculture, and to put in place realistic water-pricing measures Read on...
GEELONG: Like recycled water, biosolids have a value. They contain nutrients and other elements that are suitable as a fertiliser, soil conditioner or energy source. Read on...
UK: This week, attention switched to two sewage treatment centres in London, where large areas of semi-stagnant water, rich in nutrients, make an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. AND In Hounslow, more than 1,000 residents living close to the Mogden Sewage Treatment Centre are suing Thames Water over the insect menace. Read on...
MELBOURNE: "Melbourne should be getting its extra water through recycling more of the 370 billion litres of waste water that is pumped out to sea every year,'' Mr Walsh said. Read on...
USA: Funding for the new plant, designed to handle 6.5 million gallons a day, was approved last month by the Shelbyville City Council. The project is estimated to cost around $25 million.
Read on...CANADA: Public works employees say burning the sludge would be cheaper and more environmentally-friendly than trucking it to area farms to be spread as fertilizer. Read on...
WYOMING: The land may be ruled out for a new school because district officials are concerned that a section of it once housed a sewage lagoon Read on...
CANBERRA: Drinking recycled sewage has moved a step closer with the drafting of what are said to be the world's first national guidelines to establish standards for recycled water quality.The draft guidelines published yesterday by the National Health and Medical Research Read on...
Council USA: Buildings are like the people that inhabit them: they eat, they drink, they breathe, and they produce waste. In most buildings, the 1.6 gallons of pure drinking water you contaminate every time you use the toilet are excreted into the municipal sewage system. But in the Solaire, a 27-story, 293-unit building designed in 2000 and completed in 2003, that waste isn't wasted. Located in Battery Park City, the Solaire is the first green residential building in the country; read on...
UK:The matt surfaced grey metal coloured sheeting to be used for the external surfaces of the building and roof would emphasise its alien nature. Whilst the Secretaries of State accept that the exposed eastern elevation would aid comprehension of the design concept, they consider that this would be of little comfort when compared with its permanently intrusive incongruity. They conclude that the WTW/SRC in Southern Water's preferred scheme (LAN64D1) would have an unacceptably damaging visual and landscape impact on the area at the edge of the Downs and of Peacehaven. read on...
DELHIl But the city grew -- from 1991 to 2001 its population expanded by 47 percent -- and now a third of Delhi's waste, the biggest cause of the river's pollution, goes into the Yamuna untreated, the pollution monitoring board says Read on...
SYDNEY: When residents approach councils to install grey-water treatment systems, a not uncommon response is a blanket 'no', or a very bureaucratic response, like, 'You have to do a complete DA or submit scale drawings'," said the institute's chairman, John Grimes Read on...
VICTORIA: Residents in some Victorian alpine towns have been told they have to boil their drinking, cooking and cleaning water for at least the next year. Read on...CANADA:The three-way deal announced Thursday to fund Brockville's sewage plant upgrade is a waste of taxpayers' money, Thomas Low believes. Low, a civil engineer and water consultant, was hired by the city in 2003 to evaluate the city's sewage plant and has appeared before the previous council urging it to reject secondary treatment. Low has argued in favour of a less costly option known as tertiary treatment Read on...
AUSTRALIA: The powerful positive displacement pump provides vacuum to collect the waste water from boat tank and simultaneously discharges it into the sewer or other collection systems. Read on...
NOVA SCOTIA CANADA: A proposed Port Medway sewage treatment plant will cost $905,000 plus H.S.T., according to a CBCL Limited Consultant Engineers study. SNIP Mayor said he was pleased with the turn-out. “They gave us a lot to chew on.”He added that they would hold a second public meeting sometime in the fall to focus more on the 36 properties involved Read on...
SOUTH AUSTRALIA: BHP Billiton says it would be too expensive to pipe recycled water from Adelaide to an expanded mine at Roxby Downs in outback South Australia Read on...
FLORIDA: WEST PALM BEACH - Faced with a depleted water supply and extreme drought conditions, the city of West Palm Beach decided this spring to bypass a water filtration step and instead pump treated sewage water into its well fields, officials said. Utility managers opted to not filter the treated sewage water through a marsh, a process that takes two years. Instead, Read on...
CUMBRIA UK:NEW £12M WASTE WATER SYSTEM FOR SOUTH LAKES......Cark waste water currently goes to a septic tank for treatment before being pumped out to the River Eea.......The tank was built to serve a small population but now the number living in the village has grown to 400 Work, set to start later this month, should be completed by March 2008 Read on...
BRIGHTON ENGLAND: Sewage from Wickwoods Health Club and Spa in Albourne, near Hurstpierpoint, was pumped into a nearby waterway without being properly treated. Staff from the Environment Agency found levels of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) were 14 times the legal limit Read on...
OHIO: A handful may hold hostage a $15 million sewage project. It’s a dishonor to the 650 potential customers out there,” Davis said. (SNIP) Davis said potential customers would not be able to pay the higher users rates if the project costs escalate.Also, the project would lose the $4.8 million federal grant if the funding is not spent by December of 2008. Bio-Xpress Editor notes; to service a community of 650 people with a 2 phase Kuma Bio-Xpress Water Quarantine Station would normally not exceed $A1M (excluding real estate) in total ! Read on....
SYDNEY: June 10, 2007 SEWAGE is overflowing into NSW's stormwater channels, creeks and rivers after days of torrential rain Read on...
MISSOURI: Neighbors who live along Chad Drive in Graves County say a nearby sewage lagoon is to blame for the bugs that just won't end Read on...
TOWNSVILLE: As expected, the major emphasis will be on water and waste water initiatives, with $60 million being poured into the Cleveland Bay waste water treatment facility Read on...
CANBERRA: The cost of ACT water and waste water services will increase from July 1 by about 9.6 per cent for households with moderate consumption and at a higher rate for households and businesses with high consumption Read on...
USA: rates will jump an average of 30%. (snip) One of the reasons for the increase was mandated improvements in sewer treatment that are going to be very expensive Read full article here...
SCOTLAND: thanks to a scheme put in place for Scottish Water by a consortium called Catchment, effluent from the local communities with 55,000 inhabitants is being carefully treated before discharge. Along with this treatment process, a valuable agricultural fertilizer is being produced Read full article here
USA: Advanced sewer system sparks controversy The sewage treatment system proposed for Madison Landing — called Zenon — has been widely criticized for not consistently meeting permit requirements. The state Department of Environmental Protection is holding public hearings on a Zenon system Read full article.....
AUSTRALIA: Qld. Words twisted in anti-recycling propaganda (snip) More than 500,000 copies of a glossy 20-page booklet -- called "Think Before You Agree to Drink" and costing $200,000 (snip) However, four experts quoted in the publication have told The Australian that they in fact support the use of recycled sewage as drinking water Read full article here...
AUSTRALIA :Melbourne Grey water's stumbling block: Has grey water blocked your sewerage system? Read on...
AUSTRALIA: Southeast Queenslanders subject to level five water restrictions are using an average of 152 litres a day, according to daily water use consumption figures released today. Read on...
USA: OCALA - A proposal for a wastewater treatment plant that would have served some 340 future homes (snipped Ed. ) a proposal for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant on some 29 acres Read on...
USA San Diego: The Web site for San Diego says a $1.5 billion upgrade would cost each of the 16 wastewater agencies' 375,000 ratepayers about $4,000. Commercial and other high-volume users would pay more Read on...
USA: (AP) A broken 48-inch underground pipe sent up to 2 million gallons of raw sewage spilling into the Hudson River north of New York City as workers scrambled Saturday to repair the damage. Read on...
CANBERRA: FOR THE first time in 40 years, Canberrans are drinking water drawn from the Murrumbidgee River. It is a measure of the severity of the current drought that Actew has had to revert to supplementing Canberra's dwindling supplies (now down to 31 per cent of capacity) with water which contains some amounts of treated waste water pumped into the river from towns upstream of the ACT like Cooma and Bredbo. It is theoretically possible that this water harbours bacteria and viruses, as well as hormones and pharmaceutical compounds, but the chances someone in Canberra will become sick as a result of drinking it are so remote as to be almost negligible Read on...
USA: Gloucester, MA A construction crew blasting a ledge in Annisquam to widen Bennett Street North at the foot of Washington Street ruptured a sewer main yesterday, sending an estimated 600 gallons of untreated sewage through a catch basin and into Lobster Cove. Read on...
UK: Hampshire: One of the conditions imposed on the developers was for the level of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the discharge not to exceed 40 milligrams per litre. Read on...
UK: SHOCKED householders have been left reeling after South Lakeland District Council ordered them to stump up £6,600 each for repairs to a faulty sewage system near their homes or face a possible fine' Read on...
MELBOURNE: BROUGHTON HALL nursing home had to deal with sewerage problems just days before a food poisoning outbreak left five residents dead, The Sunday Age can reveal.
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ADELAIDE residents could be banned from using water outdoors from July 1 if flows into the Murray-Darling Basin do not improve by mid-May Read on...
MELBOURNE: A plan to collect water in aquifers for re-use has been unveiled by the Bracks Government....snip.....Mr Thwaites said a scheme requiring new housing developments to install an additional pipe to run recycled water from nearby treatment plants to all homes -- in place in the outer east -- would be expanded to the Craigieburn and Werribee growth corridors. He said research into the viability of mining recycled water from sewers was making progress Read on...
EDMONTON: E.L. Smith Water Treatment Upgrade Project When the major three-year upgrade of the E.L. Smith WTP ends in early 2008, capacity will have been almost doubled – yielding a 25% increase in potable water available to the Edmonton service area and ensuring that demand can be met for at least the next 15 years. Using a unique partnership approach to design and construction, in addition to safeguarding the continuity of future supply, the project will also bolster the response to seasonal challenges such as spring-run-off and periods of drought. Read on...
USA: Reclamation project makes Orange County California "drought-proof". Five months ago, Orange County broke ground on a $US487 million "toilet-to-tap" project, slated to open in 2007, purifying enough sewage water to serve for 140,000 families. (Editor approx. $A1,600 per person) Read on...
MELBOURNE: desalination plant inevitable: Thwaites A $1 billion-plus desalination plant will "inevitably" be built in Melbourne to boost the city's dwindling water supplies...The Water Minister's comments came as he announced that 40,000 new homes in Melbourne's growing outer south-eastern suburbs would be forced to connect to recycled water over the next 25 years. Under the plan, homes in six housing estates between Cranbourne and Officer would be required to install dual-pipe systems, in which drinking water is replaced with recycled water to be used for toilets, gardens and washing cars. read On...
CANADA: A rural town lagoon has been seeping sewage into the ground for the last several years, ruining a portion of a farmer's field and causing concern about water quality in the area. The lagoon that processes sewage from about 60 to 70 houses in the village of Oakburn has at least three leaks, confirmed Don Yanick, the reeve for the municipality of Shoal Lake. Oakburn is in the Shoal Lake municipality Read on...
VICTORIA: Some Victorian towns guzzled up to 200 per cent more water than their October average this year, before they headed into water restrictions Read on...
THAILAND PATONG: WMA Director “After the tsunami we received a message from the Danish ambassador saying that he wanted to help us improve our wastewater treatment capability by using “subsurface wetland” technology developed in Denmark. This water contains a high concentration of organic wastes and chemical substances, Using the new plant we can treat much more of this water, which otherwise would flow into the bay untreated,” he said. Patong Deputy Mayor Chairat Sukbal said that the system is already working very well, but will take time to reach peak effectiveness at reducing the (BOD) “The system is not yet 100 % effective because we must wait three months for the system to take full effect. Before we began using the system, the BOD value of the water dumped into the bay was measured at 40 mg/l. Read on...
VICTORIA: Bracks plans water recycling boost The upgrade at the Eastern Treatment Plant would allow recycled water to be used for new housing projects and power stations in the Latrobe Valley. The proposal would also cut controversial outflows of sewage into the ocean at Gunnamatta by 80 per cent. The project is expected to be completed by 2012 Read on...
New York: The winners were selected in categories based upon their size and degree of wastewater treatment they provide. Facilities eligible for one of the small categories process less than one million gallons of wastewater per day; those in the medium category process one million to 10 million gallons per day; and those in the large category process more than 10 million gallons per day Read on...
USA Dow Chemical: The patent-pending ZDD process technology utilizes a unique combination of reverse osmosis or nanofiltration membranes and electrodialysis cells that enables water treatment facilities to recover potentially saleable salts and greater amounts of pure filtered water. It also minimizes or eliminates the production of concentrated brine, the disposal of which represents a substantial cost associated with water treatment in coastal and, in particular, inland locations.
AUSTRALIA: With an average daily domestic water use of 350 litres per person, Australians rate among the world's highest water users - in the past 20 years we have increased our use by more than 65 per cent. Experts predict nearly 3 billion people worldwide will face an acute scarcity of clean, fresh water by 2025, with shortages and soaring costs likely Read on...
MELBOURNE: Under the revised stage one restrictions, householders would be permitted to water their gardens only between 6am and 8am, and 8pm and 10pm, on alternate days Read on...
INDIA: the government is not even providing temporary shelter. This means another expenditure of Rs 3,000 besides the Rs 7,000 for plot allotment," alleges one slum evictee. And what about the other promises? Only non-potable water is available and that too from private water tanks. The promised sewerage is yet to materialise. Four mobile toilets which are usually without water service over 2,000 newly relocated families. Most thus prefer the outdoors Read on...
CANADA: VICTORIA, B.C. -- Dumping raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca is no longer a good long-range strategy for the British Columbia capital, an independent scientific panel has concluded Read on...
USA: The public wasn’t told tens of thousands of gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Rock River last month because it didn’t affect drinking water, state officials say Read on...
USA: The $317,000 project is to begin Monday and be finished by Sept. 1. It involves laying a 12-inch sewer line. Trenches will have to be dug eight to 10 feet deep along Main - from Mill Street north to Elm Street Read on...
USA: For days now people on the south side of Brundidge have been holding their noses and asking, “What's that awful smell?” Read on...
AUSTRALIA: SA Water is investigating how Port Lincoln's tuna processing industry can dispose of its waste so it does not have to dump it into the sea Read on...
USA: Residents will likely be facing a series of sewer rate increases starting this year as part of the city's plan to finance a new $120 million sewage treatment plant Read on...
USA: the board emerged from closed session and voted to spend more than $1 million to buy 79 acres along Mountain Run between Stevensburg and Brandy Station. "We plan to use the land to build a sewage-treatment plant to serve the Brandy-Elkwood area Read on...
USA: Imagine the smell of raw sewage, even a quick whiff makes you sick, but residents in Anderson County's Claxton Community say they have to deal with that odor 24 hours a day, seven days a week and it's getting worse Read on...
USA: The Waste Water Treatment Plant in the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground experienced a sewer system overflow between 1:00 and 6:00 a.m. July 6. Approximately 1,082,610 gallons of partially treated sewage overflowed from the chlorination tank Read on...
USA: A lift station malfunction is being blamed for a sewage spill and fish kill in the Salt Fork River near Tonkawa Read on...
USA: The neighbours believe the couple is responsible for pumping the raw sewage into the streets Read on... USA: County officials say inflation and changes to the project’s plans have added an extra $50 million to the final price tag Read on...
SCOTLAND: RAW sewage has been found on a second Gourock beach. The stinking mess at Cardwell Bay was discovered just days after similar complaints at Cloch Road Read on...
USA: -- Help is on the way for crews trying to repair and stop the sewage leak on River Road near the State Port Read on...
CANADA: The $600,000 report, slated for release at next week's Capital Regional District board meeting, could determine whether the area's core municipalities will build a proper sewage treatment facility or continue dumping raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca Read on...
USA: It's no mystery that Belcher Creek has super-high levels of fecal bacteria. But a battle is brewing over an unknown: where the pollution is coming from -- faulty septic systems or malfunctioning sewage treatment plants? Read on...
USA: Herman Bouwer of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service in Phoenix recalls noting that the cholesterol-lowering drug, clofibric acid, turned up in treated sewer water that was replenishing a reservoir supplying water to Phoenix residents. If clofibric acid can pass through our modern sewage treatment plants, what is to stop the more than 2000 other drugs on the market from entering our drinking water? Read on...
USA: For the third time, he came with changes to his plan, this time doubling the number of condo units (now 32), adding a second outdoor horse arena, moving the sewage treatment plant to a new location out of a floodway, and reducing the size of the project area from 30 to 22 acres Read on...
USA: Few people probably ever think about what happens to the water they flush in their homes.But more than likely there's someone in a Doyline lab that has. For Ginger Briggs, owner of Bio-Analytical Laboratories in Doyline, it's all in a day's work Read on...
INDIA: Ahmedabad, July 5: As torrential rains wrecked havoc on Tuesday night, slumdwellers at Sewage Farm near Behrampura too were not spared. Heavy winds brought down five of the 52 shanties causing a leakage in the AMC’s sewage trunk line Read on...
USA: Lake Benson is once again open to the public. Officials were forced to close the lake after about eight million gallons of sewage spilled into Swift Creek Read on...
USA: WILMINGTON, N.C. Wilmington officials estimate that about two (m) million gallons of raw sewage have spilled from ruptured pipe near the entrance to the Port of Wilmington Read on...
USA: but a comment by Commissioner Tom Davis near the conclusion of the meeting caused a stir. He asked if the pipe for the planned sewer to Rhea County High School is going to be large enough to handle future growth in that area Read on
USA: SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Authorities in Springfield said cleanup continues inside the Clark County Jail after it was flooded over the weekend because of a sewage backup Read on...
BARBADOS: The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) sent out an alert after a septic truck collided with the rotating bridge on a treatment tank yesterday morning Read on...
CANADA: a number of Egmondville residents want to know if they can also be included in the system.“There’s an imaginary line between Seaforth and Egmondville and some people feel we (in Egmondville) have been forgotten about,” said Ray Shartrand, at Thursday’s public meeting at town hall about Seaforth’s water and sewage systems.Shartrand, who recently moved to Egmondville, said he’s facing the decision about whether or not to replace the original septic system in a 1969 house.“Our dilemma is replacing the septic system and it could all be for nothing if it’s serviced,” he told Huron East councillors and engineers at the meeting Read on..
INDIA: less wastewater flows into the Yamuna now from Najafgarh drain. The reduction, from 67 per cent in 1995-96 to 46 per cent in 2005-06, is courtesy sewerage treatment plants (STPs) in the catchments area, say CPCB experts. However, despite the “achievement”, the drain is still one of the most polluted water bodies in the Capital Read on...
USA Despite those falling river levels, the Borough of Sayre remains under a state of emergency throughout this weekend and residents are asked to continue conserving water to relieve the pressure on pumps at the Valley Joint Sewage Treatment Facility. Conserving water does not mean normal activities such as laundry and washing dishes is not allowed, said Sayre Borough Manager Dave Jarrett. It simply means residents should limit those activities Read on...
UK Contaminated water, which had been used to clean up the Buncefield fuel depot blaze, has leaked into the River Colne. It is believed 800,000 litres of the clean-up water escaped from a storage tank at Thames Water's Blackbirds sewage treatment works in Blackbirds Lane, Radlett, at the beginning of last week Read on...
USA Baltimore Heavy winds and rain earlier this week damaged a 36-inch pipe late Thursday morning, according to Baltimore County officials Read on...
USA Water undrinkable for days; sewage plant damagedFloodwaters overwhelm region's infrastructure Read on...
USA Lake Wheeler Reopens Eight Days After Cary Sewage Spill Read on...
USA Baltimore For Bel Air resident Peggy Roberts, cleaning up damage from the deadly floods takes on a new meaning. That's because it means even more exposure to the toxic raw sewage that has flooded her basement."I had to come down here, I didn't have shoes on--I just ran down here to see if I could save my house," Roberts tells WJZ's Kathryn Brown. "I thought, 'I was just in sewage water, what did I expose myself to?'"Turns out Roberts exposed herself to harmful bacteria that has now gotten her sick Read on...
USA Iowa The Wastewater Treatment Plant in Mason City is nearing its capacity and some say changes need to happen soon Read on...
EUROPE Built to alleviate the growing water shortage in the metropole,the ultra-modern treated effluent plant is expected to generate an additional 38 million litres of non-potable water per day for the Blaauwberg area Read on...
GREECE The European Commission is taking Greece to the European Court of Justice for failing to ensure proper treatment of urban waste water in 24 towns and cities across the country Read on...
PHILLIPINES Topping the list of companies with high biochemical oxygen demand is Knotsberry Farm Manufacturing Co., Inc., maker of ABC Jelly and Jellyum, said Casimiro Ynares III, LLDA general manager Read on...
USA SWEET HOME: The Sweet Home City Council held a special work session last week to hear a proposal from Operations Management International to take control of city water and wastewater operations Read on...
USA: A temporary pipeline bypassing a massive sewage leak began functioning Wednesday afternoon, but the problems from the spill are far from over Read on...
USA : The best method of handling residential sewage is through a properly designed and operated community or municipal treatment system Read on...
USA Lakeland Homes wants to build 118 single-family homes and 110 townhomes on the site. Sixty-three percent of the development would be kept as open space. Originally, the city of Elgin turned down Lakeland's request to connect its proposed development with Elgin's wastewater treatment system because the city wants to ensure it keeps enough capacity for its own expansion plans Read on...
UK Wales The system holds an archive of CCTV footage of the waste water pipes along with a comprehensive database of information on their performance and can be accessed online Read on...
USA - A section of the road had been closed since a massive sewage spill on Friday. Utility crews tested a temporary fix that was installed at a pumping station on Tuesday Read on...
USA: Despite the Wiscasset Planning Board’s recent approval of a 52-boat slip marina at the Point East maritime village development, the plans face opposition from a nearby oyster farm on environmental grounds Read on...
USA - What we found was the most appalling, sickening thing I think I have ever seen in my life,” said McDowell. “I just couldn't believe how bad the situation was.” McDowell said to see the beautiful St. Marys River awash in raw sewage “makes you sick to your stomach.” Read on...
IRELAND: The Water Service is refusing to connect some new houses in Northern Ireland to sewage systems that are inadequate or overloaded Read on...
INDIA: Addressing a meet of Dandi Swamis as part of the ‘Clean Ganga’ campaign at Tulsi Ghat in Varanasi on Tuesday evening, Prof Mishra said the ‘Clean Ganga’ campaign could get success until the release of untreated sewage water into the Ganga was restricted Read on...
USA - About 1,905 gallons of raw sewage spilled from a sewer line in Kapolei yesterday, according to the city Department of Environmental Services Read on...
AUSTRALIA Sydney : Sydney has been described as having the highest level of ocean dumping of sewage in Australia. The federal parliamentary secretary on the environment, Greg Hunt, says 400 billion litres are dumped annually at outfalls at Bondi, North Head and Malabar Read on...
USA - The Watsonville City Council approved plans Tuesday to convert sewage into much needed irrigation water Read on...
SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape Transport and Public Works MEC Marius Fransman has hit out at the City of Cape Town for allegedly approving a site for new hospital in Khayelitsha that is next to a sewage pump station Read on...
USA - PADUCAH, KY --The rain in the forecast isn't sitting well with group of people in Paducah... Why? They say each time it pours, the sewage system backs up and dumps the mess in their homes Read on...
USA RALEIGH - Heavy rains last week caused a cave-in last Thursday at the Swift Creek sewage pumping station in Cary Read on...
USA - Virginia Kaine's amendments also earmark millions in additional support for conservation efforts. That includes restoring $3.75 million the legislative compromise budget had eliminated to help Lynchburg segregate its sanitary sewage and storm drainage systems. Heavy rains sometimes flush raw waste from the city directly into the James River Read on...
JAMAICA: The construction of the treatment plant at Soapberry is potentially challenged by high levels of rainfall Read on...
MALAYSIA: - and it's not just the water, says Ong Eu Soon, in expressing horror that contaminated water could be channelled into our drinking water supply system. Read on...
USA - , NC -- Thirty-two trucks an hour. That's how many it takes to haul away sewage from Cary's largest pumping facility. But even that isn't enough to keep up. "We just can't get enough trucks in here, the logistics of it, to handle the peak flows," said Cary Utility Director, Rob Bonne Read on...
USA - Almost a week after a 2-year-old Irving boy disappeared from a city park, utility workers are monitoring sewer lines in case the toddler fell into a sinkhole, a police spokesman said Tuesday Read on...
USA - With another summer of beach closings looming, two Illinois congressmen unveiled the bipartisan Great Lakes Water Protection Act establishing a federal deadline to end sewage dumping in the Great Lakes Read on...
USA - Wisconsin communities are holding prescription drug collections for the first time this year to prevent the medicines from entering local streams or being stolen and misused Read on...
USA - Holly Springs Road between Penny Road and Cary Parkway is still closed as trucks haul away hundreds of thousands of gallons of raw sewage. A pipe became dislodged at the Holly Springs Pump Station Friday, releasing 3 million gallons of waste into Swift Creek. The spill also forced the closure of Lakes Wheeler and Benson Read on...
INDIA: CHENNAI: The Villivakkam MLA, B. Ranganathan, has assured residents of Padikuppam Road in Ambattur municipality that their infrastructure problems, including water supply and sewage disposal, would be addressed soon Read on...
UK- A BLOCKED sewer led to tons of raw sewage being discharged into the River Spen for more than a week. Read on...
UK-A sewage recycling company is teaming up with farmers on Scotland's east coast in a pilot project to produce biofuel from crops fertilised from Edinburgh's waste output, according to a Reuters report carried on the environmental news service planetark.com Read on...
USA-A new Department of Environmental Conservation contract that will be necessary later this year is going to force Williamsville to shake a habit called storm sewer overflow, which, under the previous contract, was allowed in small, occasional instances Read on...
USA YONKERS — With raw sewage spewing out of the bathtub of her 73-83 Highland Ave. apartment this weekend, Tammie Lewis dialed building management for help and threw down bed comforters to absorb the mess Read on...
USA a portion of a 36-inch concrete main pipe collapsed, sending more than 2 million gallons of sewage surging into Mill Creek, a tributary of the Magothy River Read on...
USA In passing the Clean Water Act in 1972, Congress set a goal of making all American lakes and streams "fishable and swimmable" within a dozen years. Thirty-four years later, America is still chasing that dream Read on...
ISRAEL Brukin village, located in the central West Bank, in the Salfit district, has been subjected to massive sewage dumping from the illegal Israeli settlements 'Ariel' and 'Brukhin', which are 'Jewish-only' settlements built on stolen land next to the village Read on...
USA The city of Raleigh is testing the waters of Lake Wheeler this weekend. Friday, a sewage spill dumped contaminated water into Swift Creek Read on...
USA Oxon A former Oxford resident was sentenced in federal district court last Thursday to serve a year and one day in prison for repeatedly releasing improperly treated sewage into branches of the Sardis and Enid Reservoirs Read on...
USA The Kentucky Speedway will have to collect its sewage in a holding tank and truck it to a treatment plant because plans for sewer pipes in Gallatin County, Ky., are delayed. The delay is causing problems in Glencoe, where the soil can't absorb waste from septic tanks Read on...
USA South Lawrence South Lawrence residents are going to get a new $80 million neighbor in the next few years. No, it’s not Bill Gates’ retirement home. It will be the city’s second sewer treatment plant, and the only thing guaranteed about the project is that it will be the single most expensive project City Hall has ever undertaken Read on...
USA Halfmoon- A small privately owned sewage company will raise its yearly rates by 95 percent, the first rate increase in the company's 40-year history Read on...
USA Raleigh , N.C. Raleigh authorities closed Lake Wheeler to recreational activities today after a massive sewage spill into a tributary Read on...
USA Adrian- Bacteria levels in the South Branch of the River Raisin are being monitored by the city of Adrian following a large discharge of untreated sewage caused by heavy rainfall Wednesday Read on...
USA The city of Petal is working to resolve an emergency sewer situation that came to a head last week and persisted for several days. Pumps at five of the city’s 50 lift stations were down, and the board of aldermen voted in their first regular meeting of June to bypass the normal bidding process to accept emergency bids for repairs Read on...
SOUTH AFRICA: - The City of Cape Town fails to meet national health standards for sewage effluent 25 percent of the time, discharging sewage into metropolitan rivers and into the sea Read on...
USA The report, by the treatment facility's operator, Aquarion Service Company, states that a power spike in the Barstow power grid at 12:39 p.m. caused influent (incoming sewage) pumps to fail Read on...
USA Recent rains caused raw sewage overflowBy Jim DrysdaleFriday, June 23, 2006 I think the town is morally obliged to warn residents and those using the harbor or consuming possibly contaminated seafood of this problem Read on...
USA - Aurora-- Floodwaters in one Aurora neighborhood forced sewage into more than a dozen homes after the sewer system overflowed Thursday. The water gushed into basements, and in a matter of minutes many homes had up to two feet of sewer water Read on...
UK - More than half of all septic tank pollution is flowing into loughs, rivers and streams, environmentalists warned yesterday Read on...
USA Kaine's amendments also earmark millions in additional support for conservation efforts. That includes restoring $3.75 million the legislative compromise budget had eliminated to help Lynchburg segregate its sanitary sewage and storm drainage systems. Heavy rains sometimes flush raw waste from the city directly into the James River Read on...
USA: A cruise line finds itself under attack from an environmental group over the company's waste management practices. Oceana, a Washington-based environmental group fighting cruise ship pollution, is calling into question Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.'s sewage dumping practices Read on...
USA Rain runoff from roofs of buildings across the United States adds to the pollution of lakes and streams and can overburden sewage systems and storm drains Read on...
USA Technology has brought a new viewpoints to wastewater treatment and is moving towards rapidly lowering the high economic costs associated with water treatment Read on...
USA According to the EPA, a Merck official said that a week earlier, on June 13, a vaccine-research "pilot plant" had released about 25 gallons of potassium thiocyanate into the sewer system Read on
USA: Pennsylvania The CAA submitted its application to move the outfall pipe carrying treated discharge water to the Clarion River , CAA system manager Lowell Snyder said. The project is mandated by DEP as part of an official agreement that will eventually allow new sewer connections Read on...
USA: More water table blues Talahassee USA: 2002 report said more than half of the nitrogen in the Wakulla Springs basin was coming from wastewater-treatment plants, of which Tallahassee's were the vast majority Read on...
USA: Fort Wayne The $90 million, 20-year project to prevent raw sewage from being dumped into Fort Wayne’s rivers is the largest public works project in the history of the city. Read on...
KENYA: Less that environmentally sound system sewage farm needs more tha a 1/4 acre for 300 persons plus manual internevtion to remove solids YUCK!! The aerobic treatment plant that sits on less than a quarter acre piece of land has four main components that work together to purify wastewater Read on...
USA: The waste from our residential houses and offices is channeled to the pre-treatment tank that removes microbes that cannot degrade," Olwande explains. Waste, which includes rags, sticks, condoms, sanitary towels and fruit seeds, are removed manually using a rake. Read on.. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - USA Huntsville officials have discussed annexing Limestone Correctional Facility and treating its sewage. It's one of eight state prisons sued by the Alabama attorney general over state environmental violations Read on...
USA: Ohio Warfield said nutrient loading in Chincoteague Bay has three causes: "One third is from agriculture, one third is from septic systems all around the bay and sewage treatment plants that are not up to our standards, and the other third is acid rain from the smokestacks in Ohio Read on...
USA: Quad City officials are planning a preliminary engineering and investigations studies to determine what steps the city needs to take next. The expanded plant could be operating by Dec. 2009 if the city council gives a green light. The current system was constructed 24 years ago. It was designed to handle about 1 million gallons of waste water per day. The system is operating at capacity, he said. Like many other municipalities, he said, LeClaire’s system is challenged when heavy rainfalls cause peak flows — and part of the added water comes from leaks in the system. Up to 5 million gallons might be in the system on those days. Some might be discharged without being treated Read on...
USA: Jersey Shore The resolution authorizes the borough to ask the Neptune Sewerage Authority for permission to hook up to the utility's sewer trunk line and send raw sewage for processing. However, the Neptune authority has calculated that Tinton Falls has only about 36,000 gallons a day of sewage "capacity" left that can be sent to its plant Read on...
USA : DIRTY BUSINESS in Manton Since 1972, Johnson has been in the septic hauling business and over the years he said there has not been that much change in how he has done his job Read on...
Lafayette USA When the DEQ reviewed Kaplan's 50-year-old sewage system, they gave the town two choices: get up to code or pay over $27,000 a day in fines Read on...
QATAR: Doha • Thousands of workers and visitors to the Industrial Area near Doha may be inadvertently exposed to severe health hazard due to overflowing septic tanks at labour camps Read on...
USA: Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - The Onondaga County Legislature’s Environmental Protection Committee has approved almost $50 million more in funding to complete construction of the sewage treatment plant along Midland Avenue in Syracuse Read on...
USA: MADISON -- Reluctant voters finally agreed during Monday night's annual town meeting to allocate $150,000 for land that would hold a sewage treatment facility on U.S. Route 201 Read on...
LUANDA: health experts here say, that Luanda's slums are now the center of one of the worst cholera epidemics to strike Africa in nearly a decade Read on...
USA: In San Francisco, residents have the chance to tour the city's two largest sewage treatment plants this summer. Read on...
CANADA: Toronto will have to scramble to find a new landfill or other disposal facility to receive the 160,000 tonnes of sewage sludge it generates annually Read on...
Recycled sewerage water ... you're already drinking it Read on...
http://snipurl.com/Isle_of_Wight_USA The state Health Department has approved permits to spread sewage sludge on agricultural fields in the county. For farmers who submitted the applications, it’s good news. They say the sludge, or biosolids, from a Northern Virginia sewage treatment plant is good for the soil, and it saves them from having to buy commercial fertilizers..........
http://snipurl.com/Midway_USA Plans call for a plant able to handle 150,000 gallons of wastewater per day and to serve Midway Crossings and the nearly 70 homes in the Rollingwood subdivision. But because Developments Far West Boone is paying to build a sewage treatment plant that will serve two other neighborhoods, the district will pay the developers $212,000 for the estimated 30,000 gallons of sewage water per day..........
http://snipurl.com/Grundy_USA At the recommendation of the Finance Committee, the council agreed to the issuance of up to $7.6 million in revenue bonds to finance the treatment plant, trunk sewer lines and related water mains..........
http://snipurl.com/DAVANAGERE India Speaking at the World Environment Day program organised at Shivayogi mandir here on Monday, he said out of 180 local bodies in the state only five or six had setup sewage water treatment plants. The effluents and toxic waste from industries was discharged to rivers or tanks directly..........
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/062006/06072006/197218 Voted unanimously to lend the Culpeper County Water and Sewer Authority $2 million to upgrade the Clevenger's Corner sewage treatment plant from a capacity of 600,000 gallons per day to 900,000 gallons per day..........
http://snipurl.com/AusInd_VRM With the help of a COMET grant and R&D Tax Offset, Townsville-based company Vital Resource Management is cleaning up an industrial problem with its microbial products..........
http://snipurl.com/Grand_Forks_USA Illegal sewers contribute to river contamination Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA .At least 21 small Minnesota communities are seeking state aid for sewage treatment systems that cost more than $15,000 per home......
