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July 18, 2008 - AquaBio Exhibits at WasteCon 2009
By: AquaBioNews Team
Those of you who have been to WASTECON already know how valuable an industry resource the annual event is. More than just a trade expo and program of speakers and classes, WASTECON offers unparalleled opportunities for attendees to meet informally with peers, renew old acquaintances, and match ideas with solid waste professionals from all around the world.
WASTECON 2009 takes place September 22–24 at Long Beach, CA, and, if you are a member of the solid waste community, what better opportunity could you possibly find for getting involved with SWANA and WasteCon 2009. So what could be more appropriate than WASTECON and rubbing elbows with the most experienced group of people in the industry?
Free Show Passes!
Please join AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc.(Exhibit Booth 1024) for WasteCon 2009, free show-only admission is available with your registration for attendance.
Admission to the exhibitor's hall is free. Before entering, all you have to do is register at the customer service desk to receive your Show Only Free Pass.
Show Schedule
Tuesday, September 22
7:00 am—5:00 pm Registration and Badge Pick-up
8:00 am—5:00 pm SWANA Training Center Courses
8:30 am—9:30 am Opening Breakfast - Tim Clue
9:45 am Opening Ceremonies
10:00 am—2:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open to All
11:00 am—1:30 pm Exhibit Hall Sessions
2:00 pm—5:30 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions
Wednesday, September 23
7:00 am—5:00 pm Registration and Badge Pick-up
7:00 am—8:00 am Continental Breakfast/Canadian Members Breakfast
8:00 am—11:30 am SWANA Certification Exams
8:00 am—9:00 am Concurrent Technical Sessions
9:00 am—9:30 am SWANA’s Annual Business Meeting
9:30 am—10:00 am 2009 Lawrence Lecturer - Dr. Enzo Favoino
10:00 am—11:00 am WASTECON Keynote - Tom Szaky
11:00 am—5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open to All
11:00 am—2:30 pm Exhibit Hall Sessions
3:00 pm—5:00 pm Trade Show Reception
6:00 pm—11:00 pm Networking Event aboard the Queen Mary
Thursday, September 24
7:00 am—1:30 pm Registration and Badge Pick-up
9:00 am—12:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open to All
10:00 am—11:30 pm Exhibit Hall Sessions
12:10 pm—1:30 pm SWANA Awards Luncheon
2:00 pm—4:30 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions
4:30 pm—5:30 pm WASTECON 2010 Kick-Off Reception
For more information visit WasteCon.com and the SWANA blog.
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July 19, 2008 - AquaBio Exhibits at StormCon 2009
By: AquaBioNews Team
You Are Invited!
Please join AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc. for the 8th Annual StormCon 09, the North American Surface Water Quality Conference & Exposition.
Free StormCon Exhibition Hall Admission!
Contact us for a Free VIP Exhibit Hall Pass to be printed and used for you and your guest’s (as needed for your group) StormCon 09 attendance.
Who will be attending?
AquaBio and thousands of professionals responsible for stormwater management.
- Municipal and Tribal Managers
- State and Federal Regulators Engineer
- Highway & Heavy-Construction Contractors
- Consultants & Developers
- Compliance Professionals
- Researchers
- Non-Profit Professionals
- Design Professionals
- Site Officials from; Ports, Airports, Military bases & More
About StormCon 09
The convention highlights surface water and stormwater techniques of leading manufacturers & suppliers. Stormwater management is a fast-changing discipline and StormCon 09 is the only professional conference and exposition where you can learn about the latest stormwater program management innovations, BMPs performance case studies, research, technology, and services from leading vendors and service providers like AquaBio.
As well as being the discipline’s international networking, education, and training center, StormCon 09 is the largest exhibition of stormwater equipment and technologies in one place. Get more information about StormCon 2009 here.
Enter To Win!
Don’t forget to stop by the AquaBio Booth (Booth #929) to enter to win discounts on AquaBio products and services!
August 16 – 20, 2009
Anaheim Marriott
Anaheim, CA USA
Exposition Hours
Please note: The Exhibit Hall is closed
during lunch from 12:15 pm -1:15 pm.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
9:00 am – 12:15 pm
1:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
9:00 am – 12:15 pm
1:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Thursday, August 20, 2009
9:00 am – 12:45 pm
The trade exposition is in the Grand and Marquis Ballroom on the ground floor of the hotel.For networking opportunities, don’t miss the coffee and refreshment breaks each day and our opening reception on Tuesday evening.
*The educational sessions and luncheons require additional registration.
Please visit www.StormCon.com for complete information.
For additional passes or questions please email snania@forester.net
or call 805.682.1300 x 136.
May 01, 2008 - The County of Los Angeles is going “Blue”
By: AquaBioNews Team
The County of Los Angeles is going “Blue” reducing pollutants in the county’s lakes & reservoirs.
AquaBio Watershed Restoration & Lake Management Division, a subsidiary of AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc., has just signed a 5 year services agreement with The County of Los Angeles, the largest populated county in the United States.
AquaBio will be one of two companies responsible for weed control, for Los Angeles County Lakes & Retention Basins. Since 1987, AquaBio has accomplished this “naturally”, using proven proprietary techniques in bioremediation & phytoremediation.
AquaBio specializes in the degrading of organics, in urban, & stormwater runoff & other pollutants, in lakes, lagoons, rivers, & retention basins.
“The fact that we are one of only a few firms in the US, that does not use herbicides or algaecides, as part of our water treatment remediation programs, & of course our success record, is what led the County of Los Angeles to consider us” -DeAna Vitela-Hayashi, Director of AquaBio Water Habitat Restoration & Management Division.
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April 30, 2008 - Why Did That Fancy Aerator
Make My Lagoon Smell WORSE?
By:
Valerie Anne Edwards, President, Alken-Murray Corp.
Edited by DeAna Vitela, Director, AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc.
There are aeration system marketing companies that promise you that all you have to do to fix odor in your lagoon is to purchase a large expensive aeration system, because aerobic bacteria do not create nasty odors. So, you harness your resources for a capital expenditure, figuring that you will recoup from the good relations your odor control plan will promote in your community. You install the system and you pull the switch. The motors rumble, the surface bubbles and gunk starts to rise from the bottom and...and...the stench is overpowering, much worse than it was before. You turn in horror to the aeration company installer, who tells you not to worry, just give it some time. Well, you have just spent a ton of money, so you agree to let it run for awhile, but it does not improve.
Why?
When you have a lagoon with little or no aeration, and allow untreated runoff and waterfowl feces also untreated, to enter into it, it stratifies, with only the top layer receiving any air. The oxygen demand of the waste quickly robs the lower layers of any oxygen they contained at startup, so obligate anaerobes (bacteria that cannot function WITH air) are encouraged to proliferate, while the obligate aerobes (bacteria that cannot function WITHOUT air) rise to the surface or die off. The level of organic matter in the lagoon is much greater than the natural initial bacterial population in the lagoon can handle, so the cycle of breakdown is slowed while the proportion of strains changes and the new population struggles to catch up to the tremendous volume of waste.
Let's be honest here, you don't find 1,000 assorted waterfowl naturally congregating together in a small area in nature. If such a population assembled in nature, it would quickly denude the land of nutrients and would die of starvation. So a natural urban lagoon was not designed to handle the volume of waste from urban runoff, and large populations of waterfowl and must work hard to adapt to it. Until the hydrogen sulfide volume, produced by obligate anaerobe Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, becomes so incredible over a period of time, maybe two to five years, that a large growth of bacteria is encouraged to develop from the small amounts of these strains of slow growing, generally obligatory anaerobic strains, some arriving from the animal intestines, you will develop a relatively stinky, relatively stable lagoon, depending on the landscaping and prevailing winds.
When you add aeration, you kill off the predominant obligate anaerobic bacteria (like the aeration man said it would), leaving only a tiny population of bacteria capable of aerobic respiration (which the aeration man didn't count on). Digestion halts, the lagoon contents are stirred up, volatilizing the gases, so it smells much worse.
Does this mean that AquaBio or Alken-Murray opposes aeration? The answer is "Absolutely not".
If you apply the correct species of facultative anaerobes (bacteria that can function either with or without air), in sufficient quantity to seed the lake and gradually introduce higher levels of aeration, you can competitively exclude the undesirable strains, while you encourage a faster, less odorous, and more complete digestion of waste. Although aeration for a large lagoon is expensive to install and to run, if you have already installed the system, AquaBio can make it work for you.
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April 22, 2008 - Caring For Our Urban Lakes
By: DeAna Vitela, Director
Watershed Restoration & Management Division
For the most part urban lakes are static in nature & have little or no exchange of clean water flowing into or out of them, to dilute the acclimation of waterfowl wastes, fertilizers,
urban, & storm water runoff. This acclimation of pollution can create the equivalent of an open waste treatment facility, overwhelming the ecosystems of these lakes & the bodies of water they flow into, whether it is an under ground aquifer, river, stream, or ocean.
To make matters worse herbicides, algaecides, & some times ozone are used which act as a temporary fix killing most plant life which sinks to the bottom sediment, thus creating more food source for the next generation of weeds and algae. Over time this sediment contributes to odors, pathogens, poor oxygen levels, and possible pollution of other
water bodies. This process diminishes fish habitat & causes stress on a Lakes ecosystem.
Sadly, this is done just to make a lake, temporally useable for recreation.
An urban pond, lake, river, or stream can not naturally recover from such heavy
loading of pollution, without a remediation program & management in place.
Other forms of pollutants such as pharmaceuticals & biocides, which enter our water systems must also be addressed.
The technology exists, & is currently being used throughout the world. Bioremediation, Phyotoremediation, & “Biomimicry” for instance are less intrusive on a lake’s ecosystem. This process can be less expensive than mechanical & manual labor, fines from city, state, & federal agencies & public complaints.
DeAna Vitela, is the Director of AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc. Ms. Vitela has specialized in Waste Water Bioremediation, Restoration of Fresh Water Habits & Lake Management. Over the Years, Ms. Vitela has been involved in City, State & Federal Task Forces concerning restoration & treatment of water ways, lakes, lagoons & effluents from urban runoff & waste treatment facilities. For the last 25 years she has also been involved in the research, development, & application of non-pathogenic micro organic degraders, cleaners & bio nutrients.
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