AEC's announcement last week that it was dropping joint construction plans with the California Dept. of Water Resources of the 525 MW(e) seed and blanket breeder nuclear power reactor also affects...
Water Desalination Report, 06-01-1966
Though the seed-blanket project and whatever effect it might have had on large dual desalting plants now never will be known, 1966 may well be the year in which building plans harden for three big...
Water Desalination Report, 06-01-1966
On Oct. 19, after seven 7-yrs. of inquiry by the U.S. Patent Office, Aqua-Chem was awarded a basic patent (No. 3,213,000 bearing Reid Ewing's name as inventor) for the long tube flash evaporator....
Water Desalination Report, 06-01-1966
Reports are, yet unconfirmed by the principal parties, Westinghouse will build the first desalting job to be awarded in 1966, the 174,000 GPD, $200,000 unit for Hess Oil's refinery on St. Croix,...
Water Desalination Report, 06-01-1966
Ebasco has been selected as industrial contractor for OSW's 50 MGD desalting plant design program and the first two of 15 design studies for the large plant which OSW has contracted for with...
Water Desalination Report, 23-12-1965
First glances at the H.K. Ferguson and Fluor designs, show a combination multi-effect, multi-stage flash plant recommended by Ferguson and a more conservative multi-stage flash process by Fluor....
Water Desalination Report, 23-12-1965
Aerojet General won out in the hot competition to build a 50,000 GPD reverse osmosis pilot plant, next step in OSW's long term development scheme to lift the reverse osmosis process to commercial...
Water Desalination Report, 23-12-1965
A new 1 MGD desalting plant will be built in the Virgin Islands on St. Croix Island, but when is up to the V.I. Legislature. The Legislature has set about building up the water and power capacity...
Water Desalination Report, 23-12-1965
Comes now the heftiest listing of desalting technical literature--both on pre-OSW and OSW-generated, foreign and domestic and private- and govt.-funded R&D--yet printed anywhere. In short, OSW...
Water Desalination Report, 23-12-1965
First desalting engineers handbook also has just been published by OSW and doubtlessly will prove a boon to those engaged in design and engineering of sea water conversion facilities. The handbook...
Water Desalination Report, 23-12-1965
An engineering services contract to revise the basic design for the expansion of the plant was put out to tender on 30 December 2020. Bids are due in by 21 January 2021.
The 4.5-month temporary O&M contract has been awarded to Pavagua for €155,408. The final assessment of the bids for the temporary contract was as follows: 1) Cadagua (€164,271/83.79 pts); 2) Pavagu...
NamWater has awarded the contract for the Bethanie plant to CSB/TWS/Mascara, and the contract for the Grünau plant to NEC Power & Pumps. The plants are expected to come online in Q2 or Q3 2021.
To expand the existing 12,459m3/d wastewater treatment plant at El Ejido, and ensure tertiary treatment capacity for agricultural reuse. In December 2020, the Andalucían regional government announc...
To design and build a new wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of up to 24,000m3/d to serve a population of up to 232,000 inhabitants in the municipality of Arona, Tenerife. The plant will al...
To expand the existing wastewater treatment plant at In December 2020, the Andalucían regional government announced an agreement with the Spanish government to finance 50% of this project. No date ...
To expand the existing Adra wastewater treatment plant, and ensure tertiary treatment capacity for agricultural reuse. In December 2020, the Andalucían regional government announced an agreement wi...
Bids for the $110 million Morena Pump Station contract are now due in on 13 January 2021, after the deadline was pushed back once again. Attendees at the mandatory online pre-bid meetings held on 2...
The second of two mandatory pre-bid meetings is due to be held on 23 December 2020 in connection with the pre-qualification process for the $208.66 million North City Water Reclamation Plant expans...
To build, own, and operate a seawater reverse osmosis plant with a capacity of 10,500m³/d to supply drinking water to the cities of Parsian, Dashti, and Koshkonar and rural coastal regions in Hormo...
On 22 December 2020, the appeals tribunal announced the temporary suspension of the tender process for the new two-year O&M contract, although the economic bids are still due to be opened on 14 Jan...
The list of bidders is as follows: 1) Acciona Agua (50%)/Acciona Construcción (50%); 2) Construcciones Sánchez Dominguez-Sando; 3) Copisa Constructora Pirenaica; 4) UTE Dragados (60%)/Drace Infraes...
The bid submissions deadline relating to the tender for consultancy services has been extended, and now falls on 5th January 2021. Bid opening is set to follow on 7th January 2021.
At a special meeting on 18 December 2020, City Council voted unanimously to award the construction contract to the lowest responsible bidder, Shimmick Construction, for $86,689,000. The total budge...
Groundwater modelling to determine the feasibility of the project is now underway, and the results are expected by June or July 2021.
The permitting process for the project is still ongoing, with the client having to address some concerns raised by the regulatory agency. As such, construction procurement, which was originally ant...
A request for proposals has been issued. Two leading bidders will be chosen to go through to a direct competition stage. Statements of qualification were received in August from IDE Technologies, H...
An EPC contract has been awarded to Acciona Agua. The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture officially approved the project earlier in December. In an official announcement it said that th...
An EPC contract is understood to have been awarded to a team comprising AWT and Rawafid. The Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture officially approved the project earlier in December. In a...
Full details of the team that will be carrying out the project have yet to emerge, however market rumours have indicated that UAE state renewable energy body Masdar may play a role.
**Correction** At its meeting on 4th December 2020, the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board voted to renew the NPDES permit for the AES electricity generating station. A separate NPDES p...
GCT has shortlisted six consortia: Abengoa, Aqualia, Cobra, Engie/Nareva, GS Inima/Almar Water, and Metito/Mowah/TECI/Mitsubishi. An RFP is expected towards the end of Q1 2021. Two consortia did no...
The client has extended the deadline for the submission of technical and financial proposals until 6th January 2021. Nine Iranian EPC contractors were previously shortlisted to bid on the project.
The submissions deadline for bids relating to the 12-month water quality and hydrodynamic surveys has been extended to 25 December 2020. The goal is to identify the best locations for the plant's i...
The economic and technical bid scores for Lot 3 (the design-build contract for the Los Letrados WWTP) are as follows: 1) UTE ACSA Obras e Infraestructuras (50%) - Heliopol (50%): €13.221 million/13...
At its meeting on 10 December 2020, the JPA Board authorised the award – to the AECOM/WM Lyles team – of phase 1 of the combined $35 million contract to build a 3.5-mile force main, a 3-mile residu...
On 10 December 2020, Valley Water issued an RFP seeking consultancy services relating to the preliminary geotechnical alignment of the pipelines that will convey purified water from the planned adv...
In early December 2020, the US Bureau of Reclamation is understood to have recommended that the North Pleasant Valley Desalter project be awarded a further $3,443,367 of funding under the Water Inf...
In early December 2020, the US Bureau of Reclamation is understood to have recommended that the Doheny desalination project be awarded a further $5,673,500 of funding under the Water Infrastructure...
The developers are understood to be targeting mid-2021 for financial close on the project. In late November 2020 a letter of award was issued to a team comprising GS Inima (52%), Sogex Oman (24%) a...
