Municipal wastewater plants eligible to win equipment
Municipal wastewater plants eligible to win equipment
By Michael Keating
The “See the BIG Picture” contest will award $140,000 in equipment to help municipal wastewater plants and industrial sites save chemical and energy costs.
Loveland, Colo.-based Hach Co.,
http://www.hach.com, is organizing the competition, which is designed to help municipal wastewater treatment plants and industrial sites understand the benefits of increasing nutrient monitoring to optimize nitrogen and phosphorus removal.
According to a Hach Co. statement, more frequent monitoring can help plants “See the BIG Picture” of their operations, thereby decreasing chemical and energy costs while helping address one of the most sensitive environmental issues in wastewater treatment. Currently most plants only do required nutrient monitoring, so they are unable to adjust chemical dosing or aeration to the specific changes occurring in real-time.
Contest winners will receive Hach equipment of their choice with the prizes awarded as follows:
$50,000 of Hach equipment to one municipal site
$50,000 of Hach equipment to one industrial site
$40,000 of Hach equipment to the Fan Favorite recipient, as voted on at the contest site,
The municipal and industrial recipients will be announced at WEFTEC2011, the Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, in Los Angeles on Oct. 18, 2011. The Fan Favorite recipient will be announced Nov. 7, 2011.
Entries must be submitted at the contest site by Aug. 31, 2011. Entrants should creatively state why they should be awarded the equipment. Submissions must be either a video or PowerPoint file. Prize recipients will be determined according to expected results from products requested, level of creativity, impact of award on the plant, and extent of the need. For complete rules and eligibility, visit the contest site,
“The 2010 BIG Picture Contest awarded $80,000 of Hach equipment to three municipalities, and we want to further our reach in 2011 by including industrial sites. We want to raise awareness of the benefits of increased testing, and this contest is a great vehicle for our message to be heard,” said Kurt Tyler, Hach vice president of marketing. “We want to help municipalities and industrial sites succeed in meeting more stringent regulations with tighter budgets and look forward to the creative entries.”
Bryan, Texas, received the First Runner-Up award of $20,000 of Hach equipment in 2010. Mark Jurica, treatment and compliance manager for the city, said, “Winning Hach’s See the BIG Picture Contest has changed the appearance and layout of our laboratory. The HQ40d meter continues to impress us every day. Having one instrument that retains its own calibration record and allows technicians to run BOD and ammonia is awesome!”
Hach Co, products and solutions are used to test the quality of water, other liquids and air. The company’s systems are designed to simplify analysis through online instrumentation, portable laboratory equipment, prepared reagents and lifetime technical support.
