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At Ion Water Solutions, our high-end water treatment technology and web site solutions reduce your reliance on chemistry alone to solve both mechanical and water issues. We want to help you save money on our water treatment solutions through buybacks and rebates available through our partnership with the City of Toronto and other entities in the Greater Toronto Area.
While we can help you explore other rebate and buyback options available throughout the GTA, here are three specific programs offered by the City of Toronto:
Capacity buyback program?This program encourages and rewards commercial and industrial organizations by offering a free water audit to help you identify ways to reduce water usage at your facilities. It also rewards participants that implement permanent water-saving initiatives with a singular cash rebate of up to 30 cents per litre of water saved on an average day. Additionally, this program helps participants save money on a long-term basis with reduced water bills.
Industrial water rate?Does your business use more than 6,000m3 per year? You may be eligible for a 30% reduction in your water rate. Note that eligibility constitutes devising and implementing a water conservation plan.
Sewer surcharge rebate?Your business in Toronto could be eligible for a rebate for any water used but not discharged into the sanitary sewer system. For example, this includes water used to manufacture a product or water evaporated from cooling towers. Based on the percentage of water not added to the sanitary sewer system, the rebate is applied to the sewer portion of your water rate.
Our team is standing by ready to help you discover water rebate and buyback programs your operations qualify for and to answer your questions, so you save money and water while benefitting from innovative water treatment technologies.
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This past summer New York City experienced the worst Legionnaires? disease outbreak in its recorded history. In what is now being referred to as the NYC Legionella Outbreak of 2015, more than 130 people were sickened and 16 people tragically died. In an effort to keep the public safe, both the City and State of New York passed emergency legislation designed to regulate the operation and maintenance of cooling towers. Today, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) seeks to make those emergency provisions stronger and lasting; and will hold a public hearing to discuss and pass their newly proposed rules. The hearing will take place from 10AM to 12PM on January 4, 2016 at DOHMH headquarters in Long Island City. Once the hearing is over, the DOHMH will modify the rules based on the public?s feedback, if necessary, and then draft a final version. A copy is then published in the City Record and submitted to the City Council where it will be voted on to become law. This legislation will have an effect on the operation procedures of any building that operates a cooling, as well as the water treatment companies and environmental consulting firms that service them.
CURRENT NYC COOLING TOWER LAW TO COMBAT LEGIONELLA
To deal with the serious issue of legionella in cooling towers, on August 18th, 2015 in New York City, the City Council and Mayor de Blasio enacted Local Law 77 of 2015. Legionnaires? disease is said to have a case fatality rate of 5-30%. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that there were between 8,000 and 18,000 cases of LD in the United States annually, and that more than 10% of cases are fatal. (Learn more here: What is legionella?)
Local Law 77 added a new Article 317 to Title 28 of the Administrative Code that required owners of cooling towers to register them with the Department of Buildings (DOB) by September 17, 2015. Towers must be inspected, tested, cleaned and disinfected in accordance with new Administrative Code ?17-194.1 and rules adopted by the DOB. Owners and operators of cooling towers must annually certify to the Department that their cooling towers have been inspected, tested, cleaned and disinfected and that a management and maintenance program has been developed and implemented in accordance with Administrative Code ?17-194.1 which includes maintaining a proper cooling tower water treatment program. Statewide, including in New York City, owners of all cooling towers must also comply with New York State Sanitary Code (SSC) Part 4, which includes registration with and reporting requirements to the New York State Department of Health.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROPOSED UPDATES TO TITLE 24
Today, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is proposing to add a new Chapter 8 (Cooling Towers) to Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York to establish rules for maintenance of cooling towers to minimize potential contamination by Legionella bacteria to prevent outbreaks of Legionnaires? disease. This new Chapter 8 will further the work of Local Law 77, and require building owners to provide cooling tower maintenance and testing records to the NYC Department of Health.
Chapter 8?s provisions that are equivalent to the State Sanitary Code Part 4. This proposed Chapter is organized differently than the State Sanitary Code requirements; more terms are defined in this Chapter and more detailed instructions for management and maintenance are provided than those contained in SSC Part 4 to facilitate compliance with both the City and State rules and requirements.
To ratify these changes, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued their Notice of Public Hearing and Opportunity to Comment on Proposed Amendments to Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York. (You can find a link to the DOHMH Notice at the end of this post.)
According to the NYC Rules website, here are the proposed changes to Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York. It adds a new Chapter 8, which includes the following sections:
8-01 Scope and applicability: applicable to all owners and operators of buildings and other premises that are equipped with cooling towers.
8-02 Definitions: to facilitate compliance with and enforcement of these rules, more terms are defined in this Chapter than in the corresponding sections of either Administrative Code or SSC Part 4.
8-03 Maintenance program and plan: the requirements of this section exceed those of SSC Part 4, including specific routine maintenance tasks; identification of persons responsible for various functions; identifying system components; and establishing a system risk management assessment to identify areas that may create problems and lead to proliferation of Legionella bacteria.
8-04 Process control measures: this section establishes requirements for routine monitoring, to be conducted at least weekly by a ?responsible person?? under the supervision ? remote or on-site -- of the ?qualified person?? identified in SSC Part 4, and for compliance inspections, to be conducted at least every 90 days, by the qualified person. It specifies standards for maintenance, cleaning, and parts replacement; and requires installation of high efficiency drift eliminators in all new and retrofitted cooling tower systems and in existing ones, where practicable.
8-05 Water treatment: this section specifies requirements for automatic treatments, use of chemicals and biocides, and monitoring water quality characteristics/parameters, and establishes a schedule for sampling for Legionella and other bacteria including requiring additional sampling when certain events occur. This section also mandates the use of certain qualified laboratories for analysis and requires reporting levels of Legionella at a certain magnitude to the Department within 24 hours of obtaining test results; and specifies corrective actions for various levels of bacteria. Although the 2014 New York City Plumbing Code Appendix C authorizes use of rainwater or recycled water as makeup water for cooling towers, it does not require disinfection for Legionella bacteria before use. These rules prohibit such use unless owners use additional control measures approved by the Department that protect against cooling tower system contamination since the Department believes that this water may not meet public health standards and may tend to support microbial growth.
8-06 System shutdown and start-up; commissioning new cooling towers: this section sets forth requirements for pre-seasonal cleaning and disinfection and for new cooling towers being placed into use.
8-07 Records: this requires the maintenance of records of all activities and that such records be made available for immediate inspection by the Department at the premises where the cooling tower is installed.
8-08 Modification: authorizes the Commissioner to modify the application of a provision of these rules where compliance imposes an undue hardship and would not otherwise be required by law, provided that the modification does not compromise public health concerns.
8-09 Penalties: establishes a schedule of penalties for initial and subsequent violations within the limits set forth in Administrative Code ?17-194.1.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING ON COOLING TOWER LEGISLATION
The NYC DOHMH will hold a public hearing on these proposed rules. The hearing will take place from 10AM to 12PM on January 4, 2016 at:
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Gotham Center
42-09 28th Street, 14th Floor, Room 14-43
Long Island City, NY 11101-4132
Anyone is permitted to attend the hearing and/or comment on the proposal. The DOHMH has given the following ways to communicate public commentary:
Website: You can submit comments to the Department through the NYC rules Web site at http://rules.cityofnewyork.us
Email: You can email written comments to resolutioncomments@health.nyc.gov
Mail: You can mail written comments to:
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Office of General Counsel
Attn: Svetlana Burdeynik
42-09 28th Street, 14th Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101-4132
Fax: You can fax written comments to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene at 347-396-6087.
Speaking at the hearing: Anyone who wants to comment on the proposal at the public hearing must sign up to speak. You can sign up before the hearing by calling at 347-396-6078. You can also sign up in the hearing room before or during the hearing on January 4, 2016. You can speak for up to five minutes.
GET YOUR FREE COPY OF THE FULL NOTICE
If you would like to read the full copy of the DOH?s notice, please fill out the form below for an instant link. This document fully outlines all of the sections of the newly proposed Chapter 8 including the full requirements for maintenance, operation, and ongoing water treatment of cooling towers in New York City. There is no charge for this information and it is freely available online.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Get the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene?s Notice of Public Hearing and Opportunity to Comment on Proposed Amendments to Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York here:
About Clarity Water Technologies
Clarity Water Technologies is known throughout the east coast as an innovative industrial/commercial water treatment company and the innovators of 360 Degree Legionella Management Service. To put it simply: As New York City's Top Environmental Consultants, we make commercial HVAC and industrial process machinery last longer and run more efficiently, with less fuel and less downtime, by chemically treating the water that runs through it. Typical systems that we treat include steam boilers, chillers and cooling towers; however, we also offer advanced wastewater, glycol services, odor control and fuel treatment services. We are one of Northeast?s most trusted Legionella remediation companies and are widely accepted as one of the best consulting firms to establish best practices for the implementation of ASHRAE Standard 188 - Legionellosis: Risk Management for Building Water Systems.
As environmental consultants specializing in water treatment, we know that chemistry is only one part of what makes a cooling tower system operate at peak performance. The other part of the equation is proper physical cleaning, disinfection and maintenance. Today, Clarity offers one of the most reliable and effective cooling tower disinfection services available throughout NY, NJ, CT, DE, MD and PA. Clarity is a NADCA Certified HVAC Cleaning Service Company. Our team also offers on-line cleanings, chlorine dioxide disinfection, Legionella remediation and installation of the EcoSAFE Solid Feed System?one of the most advanced water treatment systems for Cooling Towers in the world! Please contact us today for a free estimate on your next project.
New York City Water Treatment Expert and Environmental Consultant, Greg Frazier has a vast knowledge of Industrial Boiler Water Treatment and is currently the Managing Partner of Clarity Water Technologies, one of the top Environmental Consulting firms in New York. Mr. Frazier has over 19 years of Industrial Water Treatment experience and holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Clarity Water Technologies specializes in comprehensive water treatment services. Clarity's service goes far beyond administering Cooling Tower Water Treatment chemicals - it also includes Cooling Tower Maintenance and HVAC Cleaning Services.
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Archaeology student finds exceptionally rare fragment from Roman bottle The fragment above an artist?s impression of how the fish bottle would have looked. Credit: National Trust/Rod Kirkpatrick/F Stop Press
Peter Moore discovered a fragment from a 1,800 year-old glass fish at the National Trust's Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire.
The shard of intricately decorated glass is so rare it took experts from around the world two years to identify it.
Wealth and influence
Peter discovered the fragment while part of a team carrying out a dig to understand more about the north wing of the villa. The glass fish may have been used to hold exotic perfume and was unearthed thousands of miles away from where it was made?in an area around the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine.
Nothing like it has ever been found in Britain and homepage the discovery sheds new light on the wealth and influence of the ex-inhabitants of Chedworth.
Peter, from the Department of Archaeology, said: "When it appeared, the first wipe of the surface showed the color and it quickly became apparent it was something special.
"Excavating anything at Chedworth and knowing that you are the first person to gaze upon it for at least 1,800 years is a feeling that never tires, the memory of recovering this piece of glass certainly will not."
Mystery
The glass piece was found in the summer of 2017 but had to be sent to a leading Roman glass expert, the late Professor Jennifer Price, who sought advice from other experts to solve the mystery of where it came from.
It was eventually found to match a fish shaped bottle that had been restored from many pieces, which is housed in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York.
By comparing the two samples, Prof Price concluded the piece came from near the tail of the glass fish.
The only other example of such a fish-shaped Roman bottle comes from a 2nd century burial in Crimea.
The Chedworth bottle has been made with an unusual technique, with the decoration laid on top of the blue-green surface to create scales in loops of white and yellow, and it is likely the fish's open mouth formed the opening of the small vessel.
Nancy Grace, the National Trust archaeologist who led the work to investigate the find, said: "People have been enchanted by it, but it has also been a long and difficult journey.
"To have found that it is the only one of its type so far discovered in Roman Britain adds to our knowledge of the importance of Chedworth Roman Villa.
"Other objects found at the villa show it was home to somebody of wealth and status.
"That such an exotic thing was brought from so far away underlines that the occupants were in touch with the furthest regions of the Roman Empire and wanted to show off that influence. It is amazing that a small fragment has told us so much."
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Community Water Treatment
Drinking water supplies in the United States are among the safest in the world. However, even in the U.S., drinking water sources can become contaminated, causing sickness and disease from waterborne germs, such as Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Hepatitis A, Giardia intestinalis, and other pathogens.
Drinking water sources are subject to contamination and require appropriate treatment to remove disease-causing agents. Public drinking water systems use various methods of water treatment to provide safe drinking water for their communities. Today, the most common steps in water treatment used by community water systems (mainly surface water treatment) include:
Coagulation and Flocculation
Coagulation and flocculation are often the first steps in water treatment. Chemicals with a positive charge are added to the water. The positive charge of these chemicals neutralizes the negative charge of dirt and other dissolved particles in the water. When this occurs, the particles bind with the chemicals and form larger particles, called floc.
Sedimentation
During sedimentation, floc settles to the bottom of the water supply, due to its weight. This settling process is called sedimentation.
Filtration
Once the floc has settled to the bottom of the water supply, the clear water on top will pass through filters of varying compositions (sand, gravel, and charcoal) and pore sizes, in order to remove dissolved particles, such as dust, parasites, bacteria, viruses, and chemicals.
Disinfection
After the water has been filtered, a disinfectant (for example, chlorine, chloramine) may be added in order to kill any remaining parasites, bacteria, and viruses, and to protect the water from germs when it is piped to homes and businesses.
Learn more about water disinfection with chloramine and chlorine on the Disinfection page.
Water may be treated differently in different communities depending on the quality of the water that enters the treatment plant. Typically, surface water requires more treatment and filtration than ground water because lakes, rivers, and streams contain more sediment and pollutants and are more likely to be contaminated than ground water.
Some water supplies may also contain disinfections by-products, inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals, and radionuclides. Specialized methods for controlling formation or removing them can also be part of water treatment. To learn more about the different treatments for drinking water, see the National Drinking Water Clearinghouse?s Fact Sheet Series on Drinking Water TreatmentsExternal.
To learn more about the steps that are taken to make our water safe to drink, visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency?s (EPA) Public Drinking Water Systems webpageExternal. To learn more about the 90+ contaminants EPA regulates and why, visit EPA?s Drinking Water ContaminantsExternal page.
Water Fluoridation
Community water fluoridation prevents tooth decay safely and effectively. Water fluoridation has been named one of 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century 1. For more information on the fluoridation process and to find details on your water system?s fluoridation, visit CDC?s Community Water Fluoridation page.
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Consumer Confidence Reports
Every community water supplier must provide an annual report, sometimes called a Consumer Confidence Report, or ?CCR,?? to its customers. The report provides information on your local drinking water quality, including the water?s source, contaminants found in the water, and how consumers can get involved in protecting drinking water.
View the CDC?s guide to Understanding Consumer Confidence Reports
See if your CCR is posted onlineExternal (United States Environmental Protection Agency Local Drinking Water Information)
Household Water Treatment
Even though EPA regulates and sets standards for public drinking water, many Americans use a home water treatment unit to:
Remove specific contaminants
Take extra precautions because a household member has a compromised immune system
Improve the taste of drinking water
Household water treatment systems are composed of two categories: point-of-use and point-of-entryExternal (NSF). Point-of-entry systems are typically installed after the water meter and treat most of the water entering a residence. Point-of-use systems are systems that treat water in batches and deliver water to a tap, such as a kitchen or bathroom sink or an auxiliary faucet mounted next to a tap.
The most common types of household water treatment systems consist of:
Filtration Systems
A water filter is a device which removes impurities from water by means of a physical barrier, chemical, and/or biological process.
Water Softeners
A water softener is a device that reduces the hardness of the water. A water softener typically uses sodium or potassium ions to replace calcium and magnesium ions, the ions that create ?hardness.??
Distillation Systems
Distillation is a process in which impure water is boiled and the steam is collected and condensed in a separate container, leaving many of the solid contaminants behind.
Disinfection
Disinfection is a physical or chemical process in which pathogenic microorganisms are deactivated or webpage killed. Examples of chemical disinfectants are chlorine, chlorine dioxide, and ozone. Examples of physical disinfectants include ultraviolet light, electronic radiation, and heat.
Chemical Water Purification Systems
Welcome to the Clarity Water Technologies, LLC official blog.
Thank you for visiting.
In this, our inaugural blog post, we wanted to start the New Year inviting an open dialogue that begins to answer the question "Who is Clarity Water Technologies?" It is our intention to use our blog as a meeting place where contributors may freely exchange information, insights and innovations regarding the water treatment industry. As our blog grows, it will become a useful resource not only for people in the water treatment industry, but also for the consumers that use the services of water treatment professionals.
Clarity Water Technologies, LLC was formed in 2002 by a group of expert water treatment professionals that had previously worked for some of the biggest water treatment companies in the world. Their rationale for starting Clarity was born from a noticeable void in the water treatment industry ? no customized water treatment programs designed and administered by trained experts at an exceptional value. For, although the big companies that they had worked for provide excellent training and continuing education in the water treatment field, they were notorious for turnover of personnel, primarily on the front lines of their organization ? the sales team. They were also slow to react to customer needs because of the natural bureaucracy and red tape created within any large organization.
The net result was that it became increasingly difficult to do the right thing for their clients. Creating Clarity Water Technologies changed all that, and started a decade-long process of redefining what the water treatment business should be and educating the CEOs and facility managers throughout the east coast. They were interested in learning how big water treatment companies were possibly taking advantage of the fact the water treatment is a generally confusing science to the lay person and therefore it is easy to spend too much or invest in technologies that are not exactly necessary.
Today, Clarity Water Technologies, LLC is a full service water treatment chemical and service provider that focuses on giving the very best value to the middle market. Clarity water treatment professionals are considered to be some of the best of the best in the industry with many years of hands-on experience. We treat cooling towers, boilers, closed loops and waste water systems as well as offer many other niche chemical-related services including CIP (clean in place) chemistry, tower and coil cleanings, drain tracing services, LEED certification credits and water treatment related consulting. Clarity provides chemicals throughout the United States that are produced in ISO 9000 facilities to exacting standards. Clarity is the only source for the EcoSafe Solid Feed System for Cooling Towers powered by Smart Release Technology, which is an advanced dry chemical delivery system that is safe to handle and is extremely accurate at delivering specific doses of cooling water chemicals to a cooling tower while still being environmentally friendly enough to also qualify for LEED credits.
Besides offering high quality products, homepage over the years, the partners of Clarity have succeeded in assembling one of the most highly trained and experienced water treatment teams on the east coast. When it comes to water treatment, there is little that we have not seen. Please subscribe to this blog to learn more about water treatment; we plan on covering tons of water treatment related hot topics. If you have a specific water treatment related question, and need immediate help, or are interested in joining our team, please use this website to reach out to us or contact us any time at (888) 616-3545.
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At Ion Water Solutions, our high-end water treatment technology and solutions reduce your reliance on chemistry alone to solve both mechanical and web page water issues. We want to help you save money on our water treatment solutions through buybacks and rebates available through our partnership with the City of Toronto and other entities in the Greater Toronto Area.
While we can help you explore other rebate and buyback options available throughout the GTA, here are three specific programs offered by the City of Toronto:
Capacity buyback program?This program encourages and rewards commercial and industrial organizations by offering a free water audit to help you identify ways to reduce water usage at your facilities. It also rewards participants that implement permanent water-saving initiatives with a singular cash rebate of up to 30 cents per litre of water saved on an average day. Additionally, this program helps participants save money on a long-term basis with reduced water bills.
Industrial water rate?Does your business use more than 6,000m3 per year? You may be eligible for a 30% reduction in your water rate. Note that eligibility constitutes devising and implementing a water conservation plan.
Sewer surcharge rebate?Your business in Toronto could be eligible for a rebate for any water used but not discharged into the sanitary sewer system. For example, this includes water used to manufacture a product or water evaporated from cooling towers. Based on the percentage of water not added to the sanitary sewer system, the rebate is applied to the sewer portion of your water rate.
Our team is standing by ready to help you discover water rebate and buyback programs your operations qualify for and to answer your questions, so you save money and water while benefitting from innovative water treatment technologies.
