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Association of Boards of Certification

Association of Boards of Certification

Practical Applications is pleased to announce our membership with the Association of Boards of Certification (ABC). ABC offers a voluntary certification program to water treatment, distribution, collection, wastewater treatment, and industrial waste operators, water and wastewater laboratory analysts, plant maintenance technologists, and biosolids land appliers. ABC certification is not only a way to protect public health...

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Harbor Cruise TCH Course and FREE Deer Island Plant Tour

Harbor Cruise TCH Course and FREE Deer Island Plant Tour

Join us for a Boston Harbor Cruise TCH Course, followed by a FREE tour of the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant on TUESDAY JUNE 22nd. The cost for the TCH course, meals and the harbor boat cruise is $800 per person. The Deer Island tour is FREE. You will earn up to 5 TCHs for this course. PAI...

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Is There Mercury In Your Industrial Wastewater Discharge?

This article was written by Practical Applications’ biologist Kimberly Baxter and originally appeared in the December 2005 issue of Plumbing Engineer magazine. A PDF of the article is available HERE. Abstract An assessment of sampling locations for three industrial wastewater effluent piping systems is presented. The assessments provided demonstrate that by installing sampling ports at the appropriate...

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MA DEP Mercury Regulations

Collection, Recycling, Labeling and Sales Ban of Mercury-added Products; and Disposal Prohibition of Mercury-added Products in Solid Waste

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MA DEP Industrial Toxic Reporting Requirements

The MA DEP is implementing a new Industrial Toxic Reporting Requirement this year. This requirement has been added to fulfill a provision included along with the regulations changes made in January 2007 for the DEP to better determine the toxics present in industrial wastewater.

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MWRA Rate Increase

Hello Everyone! We wanted to send out a notification for those who did not attend the MWRA Significant Industrial User (SIU) meetings this week.  As many of you know, the EPA audited the MWRA and its Industrial Pretreatment Program(IPP) back in December 2007.  The MWRA just received the report back and one of the requirements in...

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Pharmaceuticals In Drinking Water

There has been much concern about pharmaceuticals in the nation’s drinking water. However, the Massachusettes Water Resources Authority (MWRA) maintains that their water supply, reaching some 60 communities, does not contain any pharmaceuticals. You can read the MWRA press release here: http://www.mwra.state.ma.us/press/pr042508nopharm.htm

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