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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010“PLEASE Eat the Jacarandas!”
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010The jacarandas trees are in bloom in Riverside and, according to Robert Filiar, a forester for Riverside’s Public Works Department,
John O'Hara, at Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center, inspects a pipe, part of the defense against jacaranda blooms.
account for at least 4,000 of the 115,000 street trees. They bloom in the spring, with several thousand of beautiful tiny purple flowers. These tiny flowers last for two or three days, then fall to the ground, in gutters, ponds and swimming pools, creating thick carpets of lavender-and havoc for the city.
So what’s this got to do with Muffin Monsters? According to its maintenance operators, there are ten jacaranda trees that bloom near the eight duck ponds on the grounds of the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center in Loma Linda. These ponds also double as a source of irrigation water for the VA’s grounds. Crewman work full time skimming the ponds to keep these flowers from floating from pond to pond and clogging the water filters.
What flowers escape the skimmer are chewed up by a Muffin Monster in an underground bunker, the VA’s last line of defense to keep jacaranda flowers from clogging its water filter.
JWC’s Toughest Monster Yet!
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010The latest version of JWC Environmental’s Channel Monster has arrived. The Channel Monster XD 3.0 has advanced into an ideal 
grinder and screening system for wastewater pump stations. JWC offers a variety of Channel Monster sizes, including 2.0, 2.5, and now the NEW XD 3.0. This is one big Monster!
The XD 3.0 is the world’s largest, most powerful sewage grinder at 13′ (4m) tall, weighing 9300 lbs (4220 kg) and producing 7 tons of cutting force at peak loads. The Channel Monster combines rotating screening drums and a Muffin Monster® grinder to shred solids while processing up to 59 million gallons per day (9306 m3/h). This combination is ideal for pump stations since the grinder shreds rags, plastics, wood, and trash so particles flow easily through pumps and pipelines.
The new Channel Monster XD 3.0 has multiple motors – a 15 hp (11 kW) grinder and 1 hp (0.75 kW) for the drums. The grinder has larger 3″ (76mm) hex drive shafts and stainless steel coil drums with 1/2″ (12mm) diameter rod. This new design features larger cutters, shafts and housings so the grinder can process heavy debris and first flush storm loading.
“We designed thicker cutters for a longer service life,” said Rob Sabol, JWC’s Director of Engineering. “Bigger cutters also help the process – solids are ground up so they pass through pumps but are still large enough for headworks screens to capture and remove them.”
The Channel Monster is offered with several options such as perforated or coil screening drums; JWC’s exclusive immersible motors; overflow bar screens; custom wet well frames and high tech controllers.
“Pumping station designers can now replace bar screens with the Channel Monster so operators never have to deal with solids removal and disposal – eliminating vector and odor problems in the neighborhood,” said Sabol.
