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The Wastewater Wizard Increasingly Recognized for Water Efficiency Results!

1/21/2013 (Blog Date)

Please give me the opportunity to share with you my recent articles in prominent Environmental Publications on my work in the Water and Wastewater industries.

I am delighted to have increasingly been recognized for my efficiency and performance in saving money for my clients while helping the environment as well.

http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/dan-theobald-increasingly-recognized-for-water-related-efficiency-results-350621

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http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

Dan Theobald-WastewaterDan “The Wastewater Wizard” has been featured thru Expert Alerts on various prominent sites Conserving Water and being Profitable while Treating Wastewater!

 

Topics coved includes; Cost effectively save the environment & Water challenges facing the United States. The recent topic “Wastewater, pH Balanced for Treatment” may be accessed directly by clicking the link below:

http://www.wateronline.com/doc.mvc/cyber-sludge-microsoft-powered-by-wastewater-0001?user=2840827  

A collection of Topics and prominent sites where The Wastewater Wizard is featured online will remain current at this site as follows:

/conserveonwater-pr-12072012-by-esdlt/

 

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http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

 

Reducing Chemicals in Water Can be Green as Well as Profitable!

12/01/2012 (Blog Date)

Dan Theobald-WastewaterDan  (The WastewaterWizard of ESDLT.com) was quoted on Reuters as follows:

“Through proper analysis the use of chemicals can often be reduced as much as 10 to 50 percent.”  

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/idUS230470+28-Nov-2012+PRN20121128

 

Publisher of this post:

http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

Increase profitability by improving wastewater treatment?

11/27/2012 (Blog Date)

Absolutely; by streamlining work procedures, training operators to improve their skills & optimizing equipment and instrument use!

/TheWastewaterWizardonWaterOnlineRadio/

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http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

“ConserveOnWater & be profitable”!

10/24/2012 (Blog Date)

Conserve on water and be profitable is explained in my WaterOnline Radio Podcast interview at the 10/24/2012 Water Quality Expo!

After clicking the Web Link below, click the black bar under my picture which will allow you to start the approximate 9 minute recorded interview.

http://www.wateronline.com/doc.mvc/water-online-radio-lessons-from-the-wastewater-wizard-0001

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http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

 

 

Reuse water a cost effective way as covered at Environmental Protection online (eponline.com) !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9/28/2012 (Blog Date)

To reuse water requires capital that they would rather not spend if it’s cheaper for them just to dispose of it.

http://eponline.com/articles/2012/09/27/simple-steps-to-industrial-water-conservation.aspx?admgarea=Features

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http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

Simple Steps to Conserve Water!

9/11/2012 (Blog Date)

Recirculate rather than discharge, remove chemicals and turn into fresh water again, adjust hose spraying while still achieving their purposes & more which can be a step toward significant savings for corporations.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/10/idUS189838+10-Sep-2012+PRN20120910

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http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

What was the cause of this?  Millions of gallons of raw sewage spill into Hudson River!

8/12/2012 (Blog Date)

A sewer main break in Westchester County is sending millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson River from the New York side.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/millions_of_gallons_of_raw_sew.html

 

Is the EPA enforcing the Clean Water Act?

7/22/2012 (Blog Date)
The EPA’s top administrator, Lisa Jackson, said lack of assessment remains an issue nationally. One-third of the nation’s waterways that are supposed to be “fishable and swimmable” are not, she said.

 

“And that’s just a third of the ones we know about,” Jackson said. “We don’t assess all our waters”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$800+ Million for cleanup & $3.7 Million civil penalty levied;

7/15/2012 (Blog Date)
From 2010 oil spill in Kalamazoo River from pipe rupture!
Publisher of this post:

http://www.esdlt.com/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

 

 

 
Future Environmental Nightmare ? – Injection Wells: The Poison beneath us
6/23/2012 (Blog Date)

 

 

 

 

Records show that wells drilled to bury more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquiddeep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation’s drinking water.

 

 

 

 

http://www.propublica.org/article/injection-wells-the-poison-beneath-us

 

 

 

 
Water / Wastewater blogs!

6/04/2012 (Blog Date)

Relevant documents presented provocatively

/waterwastewater-blogs-aggregated-by-esdlt/ 

 
Environmental Nightmare!

6/09/2012 (Blog Date)

Greater than 1,000 accidental releases of oil were reported in North Dakota from drilling wastewater or other fluids in 2011; about as many as in the previous two years combined!

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-other-fracking-north-dakotas-oil-boom-brings-damage-along-with-prosperi

 
$7Billion Annual Market!

6/09/2012 (Blog Date)

Market Research Forecasts Sludge Treatment & Odor Control Equipment Market at $7B By 2017!

http://www.wateronline.com/doc.mvc/market-research-forecasts-sludge-treatment-odor-control-equipment-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a

 
Water / Wastewater blogs!

6/04/2012 (Blog Date)

Relevant documents presented provocatively

/waterwastewater-blogs-aggregated-by-esdlt/

 

“Over 155 million people do not have access to potable water”

6/04/2012 (Blog Date)

Dirty water kills more people than war, UN says

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/7501948/Dirty-water-kills-more-people-than-war-UN-says.html 

 
Water / Wastewater blogs!

6/04/2012 (Blog Date)

Relevant documents presented provocatively

/waterwastewater-blogs-aggregated-by-esdlt/

 
“Hidden water” what & where is it?

6/02/2012 (Blog Date)

We actually eat and wear a lot more water than we drink!

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/hidden-water-where-does-it-all-go/   

 

BP Agrees to a $400+ Million settlement!

5/26/2012 (Blog Date)

According to the Natural Resource Defense Council; the EPA estimates that controls will eliminate more than 4,000 tons of regulated pollutants annually including dangerous volatiles, organic compounds, sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides as a result of this settlement.

http://www.nrdc.org/media/2012/120523.asp   

 
Tsunami debris cleanup plan lacking!

5/20/2012 (Blog Date)

How is NOA planning to detect and dispose of massive tsunami debris traveling from Japan to the North American West Coast?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018233190_tsunami18m.html 

 
Marcellus Shale Wastewater Treatment Facility!

5/20/2012 (Blog Date)

Is this technology constructed by Eureka Resources, LLC sound & effective technology and therefore applicable elsewhere?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/eureka-resources-construct-marcellus-shale-153900305.html

 

Hazardous pollutants!

5/11/2012 (Blog Date)
U.S Department of Justice Thursday, May 3, 2012-“Hazardous pollutants released into the Ashtabula watershed over more than half a century"
One might ask-What has been going on the past 50 years?

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/May/12-enrd-574.html

 

 “Toilet to Tap” concept in the San Diego area?

5/06/2012 (Blog Date)
SAN DIEGO — Almost hidden in the northern hills, the pilot water treatment plant here does not seem a harbinger of revolution. It cost $13 million, uses long-established technologies and produces a million gallons a day.
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/blog-by-thewastewaterwizard-on-esdlt/

 

Why is the United States government, immune to fines under the Clean Water Act?

4/29/2012 (Blog Date)
A second sewage release of 2 million gallons in less than a month has fouled the Tijuana River, one of the most polluted waterways in the country.
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Urban Water Basins and Farmers’ Pockets are filled by Empty Fields
4/21/2012 (Blog Date)

BRAWLEY, Calif. — Mr. Kalin and his brother enjoy a choice that their parents and grandparents never had. They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/science/earth/24water.html?_r=1&ref=preciouswaters  

 

Nebraska Legislature OKs Keystone pipeline support bill!
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
(Reuters) – The Nebraska Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that would provide support for an expected new route for TransCanada Corp’s Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL crude oil pipeline that would bypass an environmentally sensitive region in the state.

 

Hexavalent chromium limits in drinking water?
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has delayed adopting a drinking-water standard for hexavalent chromium until it completes additional study.
For this pollutant, surfactant 6, analysis of tap water samples contained elevated levels in Kentucky.

 

$159,624 Civil Penalty payment required by EPA!
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
Under the terms of the Consent Agreement with EPA, EXCO is required to pay a civil penalty of $159,624 and comply with the conditions of its underground injection control permit. The company must also rework the well in accordance with an EPA-approved plan to comply with federal mechanical integrity standards for brine disposal wells, which require multiple levels of protection to prevent contamination of underground sources of drinking water.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/3881d73f4d4aaa0b85257359003f5348/917dc7dc753ed36d852579de00646306!OpenDocument 

 

29 States Unprepared for Growing Water Threats!
4/13/2012 (Blog Date)
WASHINGTON (April 5, 2012) – Only nine states have taken comprehensive steps to address their vulnerabilities to the water-related impacts of climate change, while 29 states are unprepared for growing water threats to their economies and public health.
 
EPA Order: Stop Discharging Pollutants into Louisiana Waters!
4/07/2012 (Blog Date)
(DALLAS – March 16, 2012) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cease and desist administrative order to the Kevin Basham Farm in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for unauthorized discharges of chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River.

 

Michigan City wastewater superintendent pleads guilty to testing violations
4/07/2012 (Blog Date)
The former superintendent of the Michigan City wastewater treatment plant admitted Thursday morning that he knowingly hid information about water bypassing the plant and other issues from the government.
Earlier story:
 
Massachusetts town struggles with Coca-Cola’s Waste!
4/06/2012 (Blog Date)
This industry’s waste is becoming too expensive for the city to process.
 

http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/03/northampton-coca-cola/ 

 

 

 

 

 

Sand and Gravel Facility faces possible $532,500 Fine from EPA!
4/06/2012 (Blog Date)
Allegations of discharging process waste waters and stormwater from the facility without proper permits and by failing to prepare and implement a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan.

 

 

 

 

226 million pounds of toxic chemicals dumped in American waterways in 2010!

4/05/2012 (Blog Date)
Environment America’s (environmentamerica/org) major findings on multiple industries dumping are following:
-Pollution from just five states
       (Indiana, Virginia, Nebraska, Texas, and Georgia)
-The Ohio River received 32 million of the total:
-Food & beverage manufacturing
        (slaughter houses, rendering plants, etc.)
-Industries discharged 1.5 million pounds of cancer-causing chemicals
        (Arsenic, chromium, and benzene)
-90 % of the total volume discharged could be toxic to infants.
        (Nitrates in infant causing formula)
 
 

 Plan to clean up PCB in Pond?

4/03/2012 (Blog Date)
The argument was compelling: setting nature’s microbes loose to feast upon decades-old carcinogens. But after all the scientific data and lab results had faded from the screen at the front of the room, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality was unmoved.
 

 

Illegal Ocean dumping persists despite DOJ crackdown
4/01/2012 (Blog Date)
Over the past 10 years, a Justice Department report shows, the Vessel Pollution Program has triggered more than $200 million in fines and 17 years in prison for ship officers and executives for deliberately dumping waste overboard and trying to hide their crimes.
 
 
Radioactive iodine in Philadelphia Water tied to thyroid patients:
4/01/2012 (Blog Date)
Government officials have now confirmed what they strongly suspected a year ago: The radioactive iodine-131 in some of the region’s waterways, also found in minute amounts in Philadelphia’s drinking water, is coming from thyroid patients.
 

 

Discharge without permit & 431 discharge violations by 1 city WWTP!
4/01/2012 (Blog Date)
Wapato Washington’s city sewage treatment plant cited for exceeding ammonia levels and operating without a water discharge permit.
 

 

Giving wastewater the power to clean itself!

3/31/2012 (Blog Date)

Giving wastewater the power to clean itself! Sewage could become a useful source of energy by combining two existing technologies which is almost ready for commercialization.
 
 
 
 1.4 Billion Gallons per Day capacity in a WWTP?
3/30/2012 (Blog Date)
That’s right! See more details, on “The Top 10 Biggest Wastewater Treatment Plants” worldwide by accessing the Web Link from the Engineering News-Record, below:
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Consequences of falsifying reports!

 

 

 

 

3/24/2012 (Blog Date)
A former Superintendent is facing federal charges of three felony counts for making a false statement related to failing to make a required report of a bypass of a treatment process at Wastewater Treatment Plant.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Wastewater Recovery: Oil Sands Project!

 

 

 

 

3/17/2012 (Blog Date)
Evaporation Technology used to decrease volume of liquid waste.
 
 
Niagara Falls won’t treat drilling wastewater!

 

 

 

 

3/07/2012 (Blog Date)
Niagara Falls has gone on record against treating wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.
 

 

 

 

 

Water infrastructure bill to top $1 Trillion!

 

 

 

 

3/06/2012 (Blog Date)
The massive investment needed for buried drinking water infrastructure in the United States totals more than $1 trillion between now and 2035.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EPA Provides $15 Million to Help Small Drinking Water and Wastewater Systems

3/03/2012 (Blog Date)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced 3/02/2012 that it will provide up to $15 million in funding for training and technical assistance to small drinking and wastewater systems, defined as systems that serve fewer than 10,000 people, and private well owners.
 
Five construction workers burned!
2/26/2012 (Blog Date)
Five construction workers were burned Thursday when a propane tank exploded at Picnic Point Wastewater Treatment Plant
A tank exploded at a wastewater-treatment plant Thursday, burning five workers when a fireball ripped through a building they were constructing at Picnic Point Wastewater Treatment Plant.
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Offer-Cost Reduction Guarantee

10/01/2011 (Blog Date)
If you are serious about REDUCING your WASTEWATER COSTS & simultaneously IMPROVING your WASTEWATER TREATMENT you need these services.
Enhance wastewater treatment and simultaneously reduce overall
operating costs while under a wastewater cost reduction services agreement with Environmental Services by Daniel L. Theobald.
Wastewater operator license utilization is optional.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Dan for these cost reduction benefits at:
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The WastewaterWizard posts the first Blog!

09/29/2011 (Blog Date)
I am now using Social Media options as follows:
 
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The Wastewater Wizard Increasingly Recognized for Water Efficiency Results!
1/21/2013 (Blog Date)
Please give me the opportunity to share with you my recent articles in prominent Environmental Publications on my work in the Water and Wastewater industries.
I am delighted to have increasingly been recognized for my efficiency and performance in saving money for my clients while helping the environment as well.
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The WasteWater Wizard –Featured on various prominent sites!

12/16/2012 (Blog Date)