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- 24-hour water supply in VUDA colony mooted

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Process & Control Today – Dec 28, 2007
The project marked the first use of DAF on a major treatment works in Hong Kong. “This is another example of our global technology and practice leaders working closely with experienced project teams and world-class owners to apply the best possible solutions locally,” said Dan McCarthy, President and CEO of the water business of Black & Veatch. Although the Water Supplies Department initially sought a new water treatment works with an ultimate capacity of 800,000 cubic meters a day, Black & Veatch professionals were able to increase capacity by 50 percent, to 1,200,000 cubic meters a day. Use of a modular design will allow the works to be expanded as needed. Stage 1 of the Tai Po Water Treatment Works was completed in early 2005. Web site address is.

Frederick growth to resume after water supply set
Washington Times – Dec 28, 2007
(AP) — An executive order that has barred the city of Frederick from annexing land for development for more than five years could be lifted as early as February now that a Potomac River water supply is assured, Mayor W. Jefferson Holtzinger says…
The restrictions have worked: during the 1990s, Frederick’s population surged by 31 percent, or more than 3 percent a year; in the 2000s, growth has slowed to less than 2 percent annually, despite the real estate boom in the first half of the decade. Removal of the annexation ban is tied to completion of the city’s link to the county’s 15-mile Potomac River pipeline. The first phase of necessary improvements to a water-treatment plant should be completed next month, enabling the city to receive 1. 5 million gallons a day, said Michael Marschner, director of the county’s Division of Utilities and Solid Waste Management. A second round of improvements will eventually deliver 8 million gallons of Potomac water to the city, he said. Add as Favorite TIMES NETWORK.

Forecasters don’t expect a match to the 12-hour soaking
News & Observer – Dec 28, 2007
Weather forecasters say the odds of a similar rain event occurring anytime soon are slim, and state and local officials continue to prepare for the worst. The Army Corps of Engineers announced last week said that it will expedite the completion of an environmental assessment that is needed before officials begin tapping the sediment pool in Falls Lake. The sediment pool is water at the bottom of Falls Lake that is normally not used as a water supply because it might require more treatment. For the time being, Raleigh has stopped pumping water from Lake Benson to the Neuse River, another stopgap measure that was helping extend the water supply in Falls Lake. The pumping will resume if the average daily water flow in the Neuse falls below 184 cubic feet per second. On Thursday, the Neuse was flowing at more than 1,000 cubic feet per second. Durham’s quarryDurham will shore up its water resources by 30 days when water begins flowing from a nearby abandoned quarry…
The pumping will resume if the average daily water flow in the Neuse falls below 184 cubic feet per second. On Thursday, the Neuse was flowing at more than 1,000 cubic feet per second. Durham’s quarryDurham will shore up its water resources by 30 days when water begins flowing from a nearby abandoned quarry. That is expected to happen as early as next week, said Vicki Westbrook, deputy director of Durham’s water management department. If necessary, Durham can draw another 59 days from its main supply. But that water would come from below the intakes at the Lake Michie and Little River reservoirs, making it more expensive to extract and treat.

24-hour water supply in VUDA colony mooted
Hindu – Dec 28, 2007
to be sought under DFID programme VIZIANAGARAM: Municipal Chairperson M. Geetha has said a proposal to supply water round-the-clock in VUDA phase-I, II and IV layout is ready and it would be implemented shortly after fixing water meters in houses. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Mrs. Geetha claimed that in the last two years a sum of Rs.