Industry
Update successful sludge management pro gram,and the recent award is one of the largest land utilization con
Halton awards
sludge contract Terratec Sludge Management has been awarded a 5-year, $8,350,000 contract to provide Sludge Haulage
migrating west
may only be a matter of time before the mussels show up in Shoal Lake, from which Winnipeg obtains its drinking water supplies via a 130km underground aqueduct. A provincial-municipal technical advisory group recommends taking steps to protect the water intake at
Officials are becoming concerned about the westward spread of zebra mussels through the Great Lakes
the lake and the conduit itself. It is estimated that the mollusks will cost North American businesses
tracts in Canada.
Zebra mussels
and Land Utilization services to the
Regional Municipality of Halton. The work requires flotation and injection spreading of sludges from seven Sewage Treatment Plants and the Centralized Sludge Storage Facility, on 3,000 acres of land yearly. Halton is renowned for its highly
system.
and municipalities $5 billion by the
To date, they have been reported as far west as Duluth, Minnesota,at the western end of Lake Superior. It
end of the decade.
BC government sets up new emergency services branch
44 Eight years of operation siudgo cake transport... "Our Asdor dewatered sludge cake transport and storage system began operation in 1982. It tiandles up to 87 tons per hour of up to 35% dry solids sludge cake and delivers up to 2 cubic yards per minute from the truck loading bunkers. It includes over 300 feet of screw conveyors - horizontal, inclined and live bottom storage bins.
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The BC government has set up an Environmental Emergency Ser vices Branch within the Environ
ment Ministry, which recently released a formal oil spill prepared ness and response strategy doc ument.
As the lead provincial agency for co-ordinating response activities to marine oil spills,it is responsible for providing the provincial on-scene command, but will assume such a role only when a spill exceeds the capability of the polluter to deal with it, when the polluter is unk nown,or when it is otherwise in the provincial interest to take action. The document notes that indus
The Asdor system is specifically manufactured for municipal sludge cake transport and was designed for our particular needs. Other than scheduled maintenance, there has been
remarkably little downtime. We are extremely satisfied with its performance."
Recognized as the leader in sludge cake transport and storage technology, Asdor has provided cost-effective systems for municipal and industrial applications since 1958. Other cities selecting the Asdor sludge cake transport and storage system Blue Plains WWTP,Washington, DC Lower Potomac PGP, Fairfax County, VA Trenton, Elizabeth and Union Beach, NJ Columbus, OH (Jackson Pike WWTP,Southerly WWTP) Duffin Creek WPCC,Pickering, ON (Stages 1, 2 and 3) Hamilton, ON Monroe, Ml Middletown, OH Madison, IN Savannah, GA
tries and companies that transport their own oil are responsible for their own oil spill preparedness.The Ministry will set standards and con duct periodic reviews to ensure that the level of preparedness outlined in companies' formal contingency plans is maintained. When spills are being adequately managed by polluters,the Minstry's role will be to monitor cleanups and, in conjunction with federal agen cies, set shoreline protection and cleanup priorities.
Announcement Herbert Langner has been appointed Senior Vice President in charge of Sales and Marketing for the national & international markets for Aer-0-Flo Environmental Inc. 1255 Nicholson Road,
Newmarket,ON L3Y 7\/1 171 Ridgedale Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932 1-800-387-3635
Lou Romano, Pollution Control Director,
West Windsor Sewage Treatment Plant, Reports on 8 Years of Asdor Performance.
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Mr. Langner joined Aer-O-Fio approxi mately 18 months ago bringing with him many years of experience in the wastewater treatment field and in struc-
tural steel fabrication. He has expe rienced a high degree of success in sales with his patented rotating drumshear screen and other liquid solid separation devices.
Environmental Science & Engineering, December 1990