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Wheelabrator Agrees To Pay $7.5 million MassDEP Fine
Wheelabrator has been found liable of environmental violations including repeatedly dumping wastewater into surrounding wetlands at their waste-to-energy facilities in Saugus, North Andover and Millbury and has agreed to pay the largest ever DEP fine resulting from an investigation. Read the details of the full investigation below: http://www.mass.gov/dep/public/press/0511whls.htm
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...
Tribe Mediterranean Foods pH Neutralization Wastewater Treatment System
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2010 Boston, MA – Leading environmental firm Practical Applications, Inc. (PAI) has been awarded the contract to build the central wastewater treatment system for the plant expansion project at Tribe Foods, Inc., a subsidiary of Nestle, SA. Wastewater generated during food manufacturing operations is controlled using Dissolved Air Flotation. Designed...
Wastewater Systems Operation & Maintenance Supervisor
Practical Applications would like to introduce the newest member of our team, Sam Bertrand. Sam is the supervisor of our Operations and Maintenance division and comes to us with over 34 years of experience in the controls industry as a technical, manufacturing and service manager. He is a highly organized, personable and hands-on individual. If...
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...
Commercial and Industrial Greywater Systems
Successful Greywater projects include the following elements: 1. The project has a favorable Return on Investment (ROI), 2. A wastewater stream characterization was completed, 3. Based on item two, suitable recover and storage equipment was chosen, 4. Based on item two, suitable treatment equipment and piping was chosen, and 5. The system design integrated Plumbing Code & Environmental Regulations including protection, monitoring and regulatory reporting.
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
pH Neutralization System Daily Inspection
Josh Jondro – Chemical Engineer Wastewater Management Team As discussed in the August Newsletter, a Fully Automated Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment System will shutdown and temporarily holds wastewater for proper treatment if an out-of-spec condition, an excursion, is detected. These systems require checks only twice a week and an operator on-call. All other systems require a...
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- PAI Designs and Builds Greywater System for Worcester Polytechnic Insitute DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THIS RELEASE Practical Applications, Inc. (PAI), a ...
- Wheelabrator Agrees To Pay $7.5 million MassDEP Fine Wheelabrator has been found liable of environmental violations including repeatedly ...
- Practical Applications Delivers Metal Precipitation System for Exxon Mobil LNG Facility For Immediate Release: June 1, 2011 Boston, MA - Practical Applications, ...
- Upper Blackstone Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant TCH Course Join us WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 for a tour of the ...
- Bridgewater State University pH Adjustment System For Immediate Release: March 22, 2011 Boston, MA - Practical Applications, ...
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