The News Review:
- St. Louis Sewer District hires Kwame for plant rehab
- Agreement Reached n New Alleghany Grayson County Water Treatment …
- Engineer: Tenn. ash spill warning signs ignored
- Start-ups put farm debris to use as fuel
- Bechtel wins EPC contract for 1000 MW coal-fired power plant
- GF Council to discuss Tyson engineers’ own wastewater plant plan
St. Louis Sewer District hires Kwame for plant rehab
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Construction on the first project is expected to begin this summer and the program will be complete by the end of 2012. KWAME’s primary subconsultant partner is HDR an architectural engineering and consulting firm based in maha Neb. The project designer is. _5904418E1FB24A45B9CF6446B78F74A8. an engineering consulting and construction company based in verland Park Kan.
Agreement Reached n New Alleghany Grayson County Water Treatment …
MSNBC
- The Virginia Carolina Regional Water Authority has reached an agreement with a private property owner to purchase a piece of land off Moxley Ridge Road to construct a new water treatment plant. The agreement on the 4-acre site was reached after preliminary testing engineering design property negotiations and negotiations VCRWA said in a news release. 3 million plant is expected to open in 2010 and will provide water for Independence and Sparta as well as portions of Alleghany County and Grayson County Va. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
Engineer: Tenn. ash spill warning signs ignored
The Associated Press
(AP) — The nation’s largest government-run utility ignored two small leaks that could have provided a warning years before a coal ash pond collapsed flooding a neighborhood with a billion gallons of sludge a former federal regulator contends. Jack Spadaro a retired mining engineer who investigated a 1972 coal waste dam break that killed 125 people in West Virginia said states have done a poor job monitoring huge ponds of coal ash which aren’t regulated by the federal government. Three homes were destroyed and 42 parcels of land damaged when one such pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Steam Plant collapsed Dec. Also on Tuesday a coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club notified TVA it plans to sue the utility on behalf of 40 families arguing TVA broke federal law by not fully disclosing the extent of spill contamination. A TVA spokesman said the utility would respond in court. Another environmental group said last week it also plans to sue and a group of landowners has already filed a lawsuit.
Start-ups put farm debris to use as fuel
USA Today
— Want to see what you’ll be pumping into your car in a few years? Come visit a scruffy patch of land here in sugar-cane country where 15-foot-high piles of what looks like hay stretch three blocks alongside a gleaming silver-and-yellow jumble of pipes tanks and girders. The hay actually crushed sugar-cane stalks is feedstock for the first cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant in the USA. The biorefinery cranked up this week and according to its backers kicks off a new era of clean transportation fuels that won’t compete with the food supply. Corn-based ethanol by contrast has been blamed for driving up food prices and doing little to reduce the global warming gases emitted by petroleum-fueled vehicles. Cellulosic ethanol is made from plant waste — such as wood chips corn cobs and stalks wheat straw and sugar-cane bagasse (stems and leaves) — or municipal solid waste. Simply put the nation will soon be running its cars at least partly on debris.
Bechtel wins EPC contract for 1000 MW coal-fired power plant
Power Engineering Magazine K
25 billion American Municipal Power Generating Station and granting the engineering firm a limited-notice-to-proceed on the project. AMP-hio announced Meigs County as the preferred site for the facility in ctober 2005. The project is contingent upon receipt of final permits and successful negotiations of state and local incentives. The AMPGS project received a final air permit-to-install from the hio EPA along with the final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit also issued by the hio EPA.
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GF Council to discuss Tyson engineers’ own wastewater plant plan
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The council had given permission for Tyson to hire its own engineering firm after the company said a proposal outlined by the city’s engineering firm would cost too much. As the largest water user in the city Tyson would bear a large portion of the cost of a new treatment plant. A proposal from Reid Engineering was distributed to council members at Monday night’s agenda-setting meeting. The aldermen will have a week to look over the proposal. The agenda for the Jan. 12 council meeting will include the following:* Discussion of a lift station on Broadway Avenue where a 48-horsepower pump needs repair.