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Dixon, Perot & Champion (DPC), a company that delivers earnings while providing its shareholders with equity-based consumables, and Water Solutionz Enterprises (WSEI) have joined forces to create mobile water reclamation systems called Powers units for the treatment of industrial wastewater and keeping toxins from contaminating the environment.

The City and County of Honolulu has reached a settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, Hawaii Attorney General’s Office, Hawaii Department of Health, and three environmental groups, to upgrade its wastewater collection and treatment systems in compliance with Clean Water Act.

Kroff, a water treatment company in the US, has created Kroff Process Technologies (KPT) to provide proprietary industrial and commercial water treatment chemicals and technologies to the primary metals industry.

The Hamilton County District Court has ordered Welch Oil to upgrade the wastewater treatment system at the Boondocks Truck Stop near Williams and pay a penalty of $5,000 for illegally discharging wastewater to a tributary of the Skunk River and also failing to comply with monitoring requirements for its public water supply.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department have said that CF Industries has agreed to spend approximately $12m on the reduction and management of hazardous wastes at its phosphoric acid and ammoniated fertilizer manufacturing facility in Florida, thereby resolving the company’s alleged violation of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, has agreed to pay a $15,000 civil penalty and spend at least $45,000 on a supplemental project to clean local high school laboratories of hazardous waste, to resolve hazardous waste management issues at the university’s Danforth and School of Medicine campuses, with EPA Region 7.

AbTech Industries, an environmental technologies firm, has said that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved its Smart Sponge Plus technology for the reduction of coliform bacteria in stormwater runoff, responsible for 20,000 beach closures per year.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that Elk City Water and Sewer Association has agreed to pay a $3,700 penalty for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act at its wastewater treatment plant.

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has agreed to pay a $38,500 civil penalty to settle the allegation of violating hazardous waste regulations at its ordnance projectile, housing and parts manufacturing facility in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.