The News Review:
- Ground broken for Swansea desalination plant
- Little Known Ethanol Developer Could Be Multi-Bagger Cash Cow
- Work needed at FD sewer plant
Ground broken for Swansea desalination plant
Providence Journal – Nov 20, 2007
The dignitaries stood on muddy ground off Vinnicum Road and as they prepared to dig in their ceremonial gold-colored shovels Marquis declared that the new facility would atone for past failures to fix the longstanding water shortage. “Right now” he said “I’m anxious to turn the dirt and turn the tide. ”The plant would be the first such facility owned and managed by a municipality in the Northeast. A Spanish company is currently building a private desalination plant in North Dighton that will supply as much as a fifth of nearby Brockton’s drinking water. The Swansea facility is expected to open in April 2009 and will cost an estimated $15 million. It comes after three water emergencies in Swansea in the past eight years. Watering restrictions are still in place after the last emergency was declared in June and won’t be lifted until the end of next month… The Water District is in talks with the Massachusetts Highway Department to bury pipes to the river underneath the Route 195 median. If that proposal falls through the pipes would run under local roads Marquis said. The Virginia-based HDR Engineering designed the facility which will be built on five acres adjacent to Route 195. 24 the construction contract was awarded to Waterline Industries Corporation of Seabrook N. As the groundbreaking took place a solitary backhoe cleared rocks and roots from the dirt lot.
Little Known Ethanol Developer Could Be Multi-Bagger Cash Cow
Resource Investor – Nov 20, 2007
The company also has a letter for purchase commitments from British Petroleum for all of their ethanol production. VPI is working closely with Burlington Northern to create a rail loop to transport directly from its proposed site in Washington State. Vitality has engaged two of the biggest ethanol plant builders (design engineering and construction) in the country and will soon choose which will be retained to build its ethanol plant. The company is working with a large maha group that has raised the money for 25% of the ethanol plants that have been built in the U. VPI is able to fulfil the onsite natural gas requirement at Whatcom and is currently working on its water and steam needs. ManagementTom Bartz who is project Chairperson has over 20 years of experience in the petrochemical industry.
Work needed at FD sewer plant
Fort Dodge Messenger – Nov 20, 2007
Derick Anderson from McClure Engineering Co. said new rules enacted by the state Department of Natural Resources make that necessary. Treated water from the plant at 1801 Ave. B is discharged into the Des Moines River. The new rules put much tighter limits on the amount of E. coli that can be in that water. Anderson told the City Council that disinfecting the water as it comes out of the plant is the only way the new limits can be met… But the disinfection system will have to be paid for with money from the sewer bills of city residents and other businesses. There was no word Monday on whether or not a sewer rate increase will be needed. The City Council will consider a contract with McClure Engineering for the design of a disinfection system when it meets at 7 p. Monday in the Municipal Building 819 First Ave. Contact Bill Shea at (515) 573-2141 or.