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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Muffin Monster® Equipment is GREEN in More Ways Than One!
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Congress and the Administration are anxious to put Americans back to work with the economic stimulus package and will allocate $4 billion to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund over two years.
Half of the funding will be spent within 180 days and most States are already approving priority projects; in addition, the second year of stimulus funding is a wide open opportunity to apply for loans or grants to purchase new equipment and/or make upgrades.
Replacing worn out equipment with JWC technologies is simple, quick and affordable – plus our innovative solutions provide long lasting benefits. In addition, Congress requests 20% of the funding go toward “green” energy and water efficiency projects at wastewater treatment plants.
We’ve highlighted the green benefits associated with each of our technologies –
Short-Term / Immediate Projects
Muffin Monster®
Small Pump Station Grinder
• We do the design work
• Easily bolts onto the wall
• Fits almost any pump station – in-channel or wall mounted
• Effectively grinds rags, trash, wood and debris to protect pumps
• Helps prevent sewage spills
Green benefit: Eliminates trash truck trips to your pump station.
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Channel Monster®
High Flow Pump Station Grinder
• Simple design work
• Little to no civil work
• Fits almost any pump station – in channel or wall mounted.
• Incredibly powerful – grinds rags, trash, plastics, wood and debris to protect pumps
• The large XD 2.5 model is designed to handle first flush storm loading
• Exclusive immersible motor
Green benefit: Helps prevent sewage spills.
Green benefit: Replaces pump station bar screens so trash truck trips can be eliminated. Inorganic solids are removed at the treatment plant headworks
Mid-Term / Efficiency Projects
Auger Monster®
Affordable headworks screen for small and rural facilities
• Install a brand new headworks
• Customized to fit your channel and site
• Little civil work needed
• Clean and compact
• All flow passes through a perforated screen with 1/10”, 1/8” or 1/4” (2, 3 or 6mm) openings
• Excellent washing
• Optional built-in compactor
• Optional built-in bagger
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Auger Monster.
Green benefit: The all-in-one system eliminates separate washer-compactor so it is more energy efficient
Green benefit: Helps eliminate standing water sent to the landfill
Screenings Washer Monster®
The industry’s cleanest screenings
• Retrofits to most existing screens
• Dewaters screenings up to 50% or more
• Reduces volume of screenings up to 80% or more
• Many treatment plants have cut their disposal costs in half or more
• Grinder and wash system help remove more soft organics
• Greatly reduces odors
Green benefit: Helps cut down on trash truck trips to the landfill.
Green benefit: Helps eliminate standing water sent to the landfill.
Honey Monster®
Septage receiving station
• A Honey Monster septage receiving area is a simple and quick project which helps the treatment plant run more efficiently and brings in needed revenue.
• Complete engineered system
• Grinds, screens and compacts unwanted material typically found in septage, such as rags, clothing, trash and plastics
• MonsterTrack controller records the driver, discharge amount, pH and other details to make billing and invoicing easier
Green benefit: Ensures compliance with local septage discharge regulations
Longer-Term / Efficiency Projects
Finescreen Monster®
Monster Separation System®
• Install brand new fine screens
• In most cases retrofits into your existing channel and building
• Low profile and easy to install
• Perforated panels with 1/8” or 1/4” (3 or 6mm) circular openings capture far more trash and small debris than bar screens.
• StapleGuard™ UHMW panels are long lasting and easy to change
• Monster Blind Diagnostic System monitors and controls the system providing detailed flow data and performance information
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Finescreen Monster.
Green benefit: Integrated Screenings Washer Monster® helps clean and compact discharged screenings – at some MSS sites the system captures more trash yet needs fewer trips to the landfill thanks to the SWM.
Green benefit: Fine screens remove most of the trash, plastics and debris ensuring unsightly trash does not end up in the biosolids applied on farm land.
Muffin Monster®
Grease receiving station
• Simple receiving system allows grease to be unloaded into the digesters in order to improve biogas production
• Grinders shred the rags, towels, cuttlery and other trash typically found in restaurant grease
• Heavy objects trap removes rocks and large steel items
• Ask your engineer or consultant to look at the Muffin Monster.
Green benefit: Reuse of a once unwanted product (grease) and increased bio-energy production.
Fish Cleaning Station
Clean, cost effective and reliable
• Turns fish waste into small particles that are easily flushed away.
• Self-contained unit uses a Muffin Monster dual shafted grinder to shred solids, such as fish parts, cans, plates, utensils and fishing lures, preventing clogs and protects downstream equipment.
Green benefit: Small 3HP motor is quick and energy efficient.
JWCE Wins Large Order — Large Monster Grinders Headed to Indiana
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Today JWC Environmental received a large order for three Channel Monster 9020-XDM3.0 grinders for a project in Goshen Indiana. These massive dual shafted sewage grinders, standing over 16′ (4.8m) tall, are scheduled for installation as part of a new combined sewer overflow (CSO) treatment facility project.
JWC representative Bill Cantwell with Henry P. Thompson and Bowen Engineering worked for months with Donohue-Associates to design the project and integrated the Channel Monster as part of upgrades in Goshen. Some of the funding came from the Federal stimulus known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Channel Monster 9020-XDM3.0 shreds solids while processing up to 59 million gallons per day (9306 m3/h). These massive Monsters are designed with larger cutters, shafts and housings so the grinders can process heavy debris and first flush storm loading. Bigger cutters also help the process – giant solids are ground up so they pass through pumps but are still large enough for headworks screens to capture and remove them.
The City of Goshen, the ‘Maple City’, boasts an estimated population of 31,500 people. The city is the center of Indiana’s Amish country and is annually ranked as one of the top ten most affordable housing markets in the country.
Goshen is also a CSO (Combined Sewer Overflow) community and currently has 39 lift stations that convey the sewage to the Wastewater Treatment Plant through 90 miles of sewers. The WWTP is designed to treat an annual average flow of 5 million gallons per day (789 m3/h) and a peak wet weather flow of 12.5 million gallons per day (1972 m3/h).
JWC has received several dozen orders funded by the Stimulus Act and our factories in California, Georgia and Virginia are proud to help rebuild America’s wastewater treatment plants.
A Deluge of Sewage
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Many sewer systems are still frequently overwhelmed. Stock photo source.
In part five of their ongoing series ”Toxic Waters – A series about the worsening pollution in American waters and regulators’ response” the NY Times looked at New York City’s wastewater collection and treatment system and found it’s frequently overwhelmed when it rains – leading to combined sewer overflows (CSO).
The article, titled Sewers Fill, Waste Poisons Waterways, sums up the dire situation: ”Despite (billions in) upgrades, many sewer systems are still frequently overwhelmed, according to a New York Times analysis of environmental data. As a result, sewage is spilling into waterways.”
The article looks closely at the Owls Head WPCP in Brooklyn and the obstacles operators face in treating storm flows…
“The public has no clue how important these sewage plants are,” said Bob Connaughton, the Plant Engineer. “Waterborne disease was the scourge of mankind for centuries. These plants stopped that. We’re doing everything we can to clean as much sewage as possible, but sometimes, that isn’t enough.”
In a related article, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, said the agency was stepping up its efforts on Clean Water Act enforcement, as WaterTech Online® reported here. There’s also the PBS-Frontline special Poisoned Waters about stormwater pollution and the AP’s on-going series about prescription drugs flushed down the drain (a huge no-no of course!) and their impact on ecosystems. The Atlantic magazine hosted a water conference last month in DC about dwindling supplies of clean water. And so on…
Perhaps the years of public outreach by CWEA, WEF, WIN, NACWA and WWEMA (Water and Wastewater Equipment Manufacturers Association) are finally paying off with more public coverage of America’s crumbling water/wastewater infrastructure.
JWC Receives Big Order For Illinois Stimulus Project Upgrade
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Integrated Screenings Washer Monster® helps clean and compact discharged screenings – at some MSS sites the system captures more trash yet needs fewer trips to the landfill thanks to the SWM.
Several Monster Separation Systems are scheduled for installation in two Illinois wastewater treatment plants as part of stimulus money project early next year.
St. Charles, Illinois has two different pump stations with three existing ‘competitor’ screens. The screens are almost twenty years old, broken down and beyond repair. With the growth in their communities and broken screens, they were also challenged with wide ranges in flow rates and their associated velocities – so upgrading to screens that can handle the the peak flow was extremely critical in this redesign project.
Operators at both facilities saw JWC’s Finescreen Monster and Screenings Washer Monster (SWM) at a convention in Chicago and later toured a local facility to view these Monsters in action.
Dean Wiebenga with Peterson and Matz worked with the plant staff who contracted with the engineering firm Trotter and Associates to design the upgrade to include the JWC screening systems. Trotter and Associates applied for stimulus money in mid-Spring and received the go ahead in mid-Summer. Meccon Industries is the contractor.
