FOX Engineering worked with VeraSun and the City of Charles City to design a four-mile long, 18-inch diameter water transmission main and a 1.5 million gallon per day (mgd) pumping station to deliver water to the new VeraSun Ethanol Plant located west of Charles City. The project was divided into two contracts to be let separately for the transmission main and pump station. Each Contract had a compressed time frame to meet the needs of the new VeraSun facility.

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Payne Retires after Long Career with City of Muscatine
April 2007

Lavene Payne, Solid Waste Director for the City of Muscatine, retired on March 30, 2007, having served the city for 29 years. For him, these are interesting times. As he leaves his long-time post, he is looking forward to retirement. It will be filled with part-time work managing the pro shop at the golf course, gardening, and running with friends. He intends to play some golf, too.

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Thirty Seventh Annual Food Processing Environmental Conference
March 2007

In March Steve Troyer, PE,from FOX Engineering exhibited and presented a poster at the 37th Annual Food Processing Conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida. His copresenter was Eric LaSalle of Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Virginia. The engineers at FOX have worked with Mr. LaSalle over the past eight years on a variety of industrial wastewater treatment projects.

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FOX Employee Attends HAE Water Distribution Design and Modeling Seminar
March 2007

Matt Kasper recently attended a week-long training seminar to upgrade his water distribution modeling skills. He was immersed in the most current water distribution modeling software offered by Bentley Systems who distribute WaterCAD® and Hammer® among others. The setting was a small group (9 people) which facilitated instructor-to-student and student-to-student interaction.

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FOX Engineer Attends Specialty Conference
March 2007

Our clients deserve the best solutions to the challenges they face so at FOX Engineering we're staying on top of the regulations and technologies related to industrial and municipal drinking water and wastewater issues.

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FOX Engineering Completes Design of Iowa's First Membrane Bioreactor
March 2007

FOX Engineering recently completed the design of Iowa's first membrane bioreactor (MBR) wastewater treatment facility for the City of North Liberty, Iowa. An MBR is an advanced wastewater treatment process that utilizes membrane filtration to produce a high quality effluent.

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FOX Teams With Clear Lake Sanitary District and Alliant Energy
February 2007

FOX teamed with the Clear Lake Sanitary District and Alliant Energy on an effluent-reuse project to provide tertiary wastewater effluent for additional cooling water supply for the new Mason City power plant.  Project challenges included providing a continuous cooling water source from an intermittent discharge Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) facility and including operating flexibility and provisions to receive and discharge cooling water return.  Challenges also included providing an on-line monitoring system and operating scheme for the new facility.

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Operation Change to Save Electrical Cost
Newton, Iowa Wastewater Plant
January 2007

In 2004, the City of Newton received a new wastewater plant operating permit that contained revised limits for effluent ammonia. Plant Superintendent Bob Main reviewed recent plant operating data and thought that the trickling filter/activated sludge plant could meet the new permit limits without operating the activated sludge portion of the plant.