Water Management

Freedom Environmental Services, a wastewater management company, has completed its merger with Brownies Wastewater Solutions and its parent company, B&P Environmental Solutions, effective July 17 2010, with an annual revenue target in excess of $5m for the year ended December 31, 2010.

The Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) board of directors has approved additional funding to Maywood's Mutual Water Company No 2 for a groundwater treatment project that will involve manganese removal at its 52nd street well.

Artesian Resources, a provider of water, wastewater and engineering services on the Delmarva Peninsula, has created the Artesian Water Recycling Partnership (AWRP) to encourage and support the use of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation and other needs.

McCarthy Building Companies, a water and wastewater builder, has started the construction work on a $14.7m contract to expand the Indian Springs Collection & Treatment Plant for the Clark County Water Reclamation District.

BioteQ Environmental Technologies, a developer of technologies for the treatment of industrial waste water, has planned to construct a third water treatment plant in China at the Dexing mine site, in joint venture with Jiangxi Copper Company (JCC).

KBR, an engineering, construction and services company, said that it has been appointed to an alliance that will design and build advanced tertiary wastewater treatment plants for Melbourne Water in Australia.

Insituform Technologies has secured two term contract renewals worth $17m from the Drainage Services Department, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for rehabilitating wastewater pipelines throughout Central District and Mainland North District for three and five years, respectively.

Premier Tech Aqua (PTA), a business unit of Premier Tech, has introduced a tertiary treatment system that features a 'self-cleaning' ultraviolet radiation (UV) unit for the disinfection of wastewater from isolated dwellings, in collaboration with UV Pure Technologies, a developer of UV water purification systems.

Bord na Mona Environmental Products US, a provider of water reuse, wastewater and odor-control treatment technologies, has partnered with All Tech Environmental to supply proprietary technologies for treatment of wastewater in commercial and residential development markets that require nitrogen and phosphorous removal, water reuse, and waste applications.

AECOM Technology Corp announced that a joint venture in which it participates with HydroQual has been selected to provide dredge design, engineering and permitting services to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP).