Kemira offers customized solutions for water treatment, sludge treatment, odor control, soil erosion and nutrient reduction for municipal, industrial and agricultural facilities.

Beijing Hengju manufactures and supplies specialty water treatment chemicals for oilfield, wastewater treatment, potable water, mineral processing, sugar and paper industries.

BDP will be at Booth 1967, SOUTH HALL, Kelly Brown will be on hand to answer your questions.  You can call him at 518 695 6851 to arrange advance appointments. 

BDP manufacturers belt press, gravity belt thickener, rotary drum concentrator, pressure filter, mobile dewatering trailer, polymer make-up systems, lime stabilization systems and equipment restorations.

Other companies displaying belt presses include Andritz and Intereco.

The following companies will be displaying centrifuges:

Severn Trent (SOUTH HALL at stand 2031) will be featuring a range of products and services concentrated around disinfection; instrumentation and filtration technologies; and contract operating services.

Baltimore City Department of Public Works' Patapsco Water Treatment Plant (WTP) is currently installing the world's largest fixed-film denitrification system — a TETRA® Denite® denitrification system from Severn Trent Services.

Farther up the Chesapeake Bay, the Town of Elkton, Maryland, upgraded its wastewater treatment plant to an enhanced nutrient removal technology in 2008 to improve water quality in the Big Elk Creek. The town is located at the head of the Elk River near the Maryland/Delaware border about 45 miles northeast of Baltimore. The upgrade project involved replacing the existing rotating biological contactors wastewater treatment plant, which began operation in 1961, with biological nutrient removal and enhanced nutrient removal facilities.

The upgraded Elkton Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is a $30-million treatment facility with a capacity of 3.2 mgd, an increase from the original plant's 2.7 mgd. Serving a population of more than 16,400, the WWTP is reducing effluent nitrogen to the Big Elk River and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay by 80 percent and phosphorus by 70 percent. Operated through a public-private partnership by Severn Trent Services since 1993, the plant has so consistently met or surpassed requirements for wastewater quality, treatment processes and wastewater services, that the Maryland Rural Water Association named the plant the System of the Year in Maryland for 2010.

According to Ken Benner, Severn Trent Services area manager for the Elkton WWTP, the new plant has achieved total BOD levels of 3 ppm; total nitrogen content of less than 2 mg/L; suspended solids levels of 3 mg/L; and phosphorous content down to 0.05 mg/L.

Thermo Scientific offers solutions and a full range of process equipment including online analyzers, informatics software and services, flowmeters and pumps for chemical feed and sludge handling.

YSI develops and manufactures instrumentation for measuring water quality and quantity. Parameters include Dissolved Oxygen, BOD, pH, ORP, Ammonia, Ammonium, Nitrate, Level, Turbidity and more.

Instrument exhibitors and their stand numbers are provided below along with links to the WEFTEC Exhibitor Directory.

Here are the headlines from our October 1, 2011 Project Updates for Municipal Wastewater Plants in the U.S. and Canada.  This Update is issued biweekly.  

Roanoke Buys Land for New Wastewater Treatment Plant

San Diego Water/Wastewater System Failures Spur Calls for Review

Holtville Moves to Improve Wastewater Treatment Plant

Salida Breaks Ground for New Wastewater Plant

Bids for Mattabassett Sewer District Upgrade Expected By End of Year

Plainfield Sewer Project Deflates with Loss of $16 Million

Tampa Requesting Bids for WWTP Project

EPA Orders Maui to Fully Disinfect Lahaina Wastewater Plant

Wastewater Woes in Nampa, Caldwell and Boise

Illinois EPA Approves Loan for Morris WWTP

Gurnee and Clavey Road WWTPs Scheduled for Improvements

Huntertown Planning $11 Million WWTP

Flood puts Sioux City Treatment Plant Upgrades to the Test

Liberty Questions Whether to Build its Own WWTP

Lewis & Fleming Counties Move Forward with WWTP Project

Berlin & Mystic Harbour WWTP Projects Begin

Queenstown Plans New WWTP

Baldwin Township Considers New WWTP

Hattiesburg Plans to Fix Odor Control Problems at WWTP

$2.84 Million to Replace Bridger Canyon Wastewater System

Ashton to Upgrade Wastewater Treatment System

Grand Island Considers Privatization of WWTP

Bids Lower than Expected for Alamogordo’s Wastewater Plant

Philadelphia Acquires Funding for Wastewater Project

Binghamton-Johnson City, Endicott, Chenango and Owego WWTP’s Damaged from Recent Flooding

Dickinson Plans $34 Million WWTP Project

$5.2 Million for Bismarck WWTP Replacement

Williston Approves Temporary Wastewater Treatment Plant Option

Dayton Requesting Bids for WWTP Upgrade

Contractors Attend Little Jelloway Wastewater Upgrade Pre-Bid Meeting

$3.7 Million for Muldrow Wastewater Project

Portland Requesting Bids for Pump Station

Reading & Pottstown Struggle with Infrastructure Problems

Rising Sun officials Pleased with WWTP Bids

Lickdale WWTP Needs Repairs from Flooding & Upgrade

$13.8 Million Johnson Creek WWTP Construction Begins

Richmond Requesting Bids for WWTP Project

Bid Awarded for Halifax County WWTP Project

$24 Million for Orange Wastewater Treatment Plant

Wenatchee Requesting Bids for WWTP Improvements

LOTT to Begin $50 Million Basin Work at WWTP

Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Project Stalled over Funding

Martinsburg WWTP Needs Major Upgrades to Comply with EPA

$5.8 Million for Washington County Wastewater Plant Upgrade

Fond du Lac Asked to Increase Budget for Wastewater Treatment Plant

Regina Requesting Bids

American Water Receives Patent for New Wastewater Treatment Process

GE Studies Experimental Technology at Marco WWTP

Recent Chemical Bid Reports

The 20,000 municipal wastewater plants in the U.S. and Canada enter into more than 100,000 large contracts (of more than $10,000) per year. Some of these contracts are for plant expansions and renovation. So the value can be in excess of $10 million. Most of the plants have an annual contract for chemicals with several different chemical suppliers. The activities at these plants are tracked in the McIlvaine North American Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities and People.

Five thousand of these plants treat more than one million gallons per day of sewage. Some of these plants process hundreds of millions of gallons per day.  The value of the contracts let by these 5000 plants represents more than 80 percent of the total purchases by the 20,000 plants.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 resulted in over 3000 assistance agreements with funding of $5.6 billion. $3.8 billion was provided for wastewater projects. These funds have now been expended.  As a result, contracts in 2012 will be down from the 2010-11 level.  There are other forces at work to raise investment again in later years.

One of the growth areas is water reuse. Much of the U.S. suffers from water shortages. Projects to treat effluent for reuse for industry, golf courses, lawns and other purposes are increasing.

Ashland, Ohio issued contracts to three different chemicals suppliers with a total value of over $100,000 for a period of one year. Fostoria, Ohio issued contracts to six chemical suppliers for a total of over $300,000.  Large cities such as Chicago issue many contracts for individual chemicals.

Odor control projects comprise a significant percentage of the capital investment. Disinfection is another investment which can be triggered by legal action. EPA ordered Maui to fully disinfect Lahaina Wastewater Plant.

This facility is discharging wastewater containing bacteria that could exceed federal standards. The agency says it's requiring the county to install a non-chlorine disinfection system at the facility by the end of 2013.

Other EPA actions are generating projects as witnessed in Idaho. The city of Nampa is about to face new standards from the U.S. EPA. The city of Boise is also preparing for never-before-seen restrictions on phosphorous and water temperature. Boise officials approved $4 million in immediate capital improvements to the city's water systems and an additional $1.5 million in annual chemical costs. Long-range improvements to the West Boise Wastewater Treatment Facility could cost anywhere from $67 million to $92 million.

North American Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities and People includes biweekly updates on all the projects. For more information, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/water.html#62ei.

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Bob McIlvaine
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