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CULTEC, Inc. and Armtec LP announced that an agreement has been reached for Armtec to be the exclusive distributor in Canada for CULTEC's stormwater management products including the Contactor, Recharger, and CULTEC StormFilter series of products. 

The new McLaughlin Place retail centre found the solution to meeting the local mandate of eliminating any increase in storm water runoff while maximizing the number of parking spaces. Instead of using a detention pond or sump, the designers decided to use a system of chambers under the parking lot that would collect and hold storm water runoff from the lot and rooftops. The one hectare commercial development with five buildings will open this year and is located near the Université de Moncton. Plans call for apartment buildings to be added in the future.

When dealing with a construction site that is underwater or where the water table is just above sea level, contractors have to insure that the excavation stays dry and safe for workers. This can be extra challenging where you have conditions affected by water depth and conditions such as silt and sand. Additionally, these conditions may vary based on seasonal weather or tides. It is extremely important to have contractors who have investigated historical data and who monitor fluctuations in water levels and speeds of flow, thereby decreasing risks to workers and the success of the project.

For many living in urban environments, mornings involve an alarm clock, a shower, a cup of coffee, and a commute of some sort – often including underground public transportation. However, while many are catching a subway on the way to work, not many understand how complex and vital their city’s underground infrastructure is to their morning routine. That is, at least, until something goes wrong.

Imbrium Systems was awarded a 2016 Waters Next Award in the stormwater technology category for the Stormceptor MAX stormwater treatment system.

Engineers from SNC-Lavalin found the way to meet stringent storm water drainage regulations for a portion of the new Centre Vidéotron site by designing two underground retention systems. Managing storm water runoff is a prime concern for Quebec City because the area is prone to flooding. The multipurpose, 18,000-seat arena, spread out over some 7.2 hectares (18 acres), opened in September 2015.

Precast concrete box sections were specified for an underground storm water detention tank to enable the construction of the Humber Mews Townhomes project on Evans Avenue in Toronto. The system was selected because it could reduce the total peak runoff being discharged from the site during all storm events. Using precast units would reduce construction costs and time. Other pre-manufactured solutions were considered, nevertheless, a precast system was selected as the preferred option. The structure met the service life requirements through the proven durability of precast concrete.

Trimble has announced the latest version of its smart water mapping and work management software—Trimble Unity 3.0. Trimble Unity is a cloud-based, (GIS) centric software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for smart water management. Version 3.0 includes new features and workflows and also offers an App Builder and new integration capabilities to simplify connecting mobile workers with maps and data from back office enterprise systems.

The CDS hydrodynamic separator uses swirl concentration and continuous deflective separation to screen, separate and trap trash, debris, sediment, and hydrocarbons from stormwater runoff. CDS captures and retains 100% of floatables and neutrally buoyant debris 2.4mm or larger, effectively removes sediment, and is the only non-blocking screening technology available in a stormwater treatment device.

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS) has announced that it has added a low-profile, high strength chamber to its StormTech product line. The StormTech SC-160LP Chamber is 12-inches tall with an installed volume of 15 cubic feet of water for underground infiltration and detention systems. The new unit requires 14 inches of total cover to carry AASHTO HS-20 live loads, which reduces site development costs in shallow applications by minimizing the amount of needed fill and maximizing open infiltrative areas.

Imbrium Systems has announced the release of the new on-line PCSWMM for Stormceptor - an advanced stormwater treatment sizing and design tool. PCSWMM for Stormceptor is the fastest, easiest way to determine the most appropriate size hydrodynamic separator/ oil grit separator for your site.

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. announced a new on-line program for designing and estimating the cost of a stormwater system constructed with its StormTech Chambers. Available for free on www.ads-pipe.com, the ADS StormTech Design Tool enables engineers, owners and contractors to design customizable underground stormwater management systems. Designs are produced in both PDF and CAD formats, with data provided that allows users to estimate a total installed cost.

Brentwood is extending its stormwater product line with the introduction of the StormTank Arch to provide a solution for large-footprint, subsurface stormwater management projects.

Established in 2010 through the adoption of the Keswick Neighbourhood Structure Plan (NSP), Keswick on the River is a new community in southwest Edmonton, Alberta. Bounded by the North Saskatchewan River to the west and the Windermere Golf and Country Club to the north, the 200-acre neighbourhood is named for a quaint town in northwest England and features more than 1,500 homes that offer old world English architecture designed to look and feel like a country village. Future residents of Keswick on the River will enjoy riverside living, playgrounds, a nature trail system and easy access to Edmonton.

In early 2014, the Tsawwassen First Nation started construction of two mega-malls. To accommodate stormwater runoff from this 73-hectare project, a large-diameter pipeline was designed and installed under the public roads surrounding the sites. The selection of the pipe needed to take into consideration corrosion resistance, due to the salt water environment, and had to offer structural strength because of the poor deltaic soil conditions in this seismically active region of British Columbia.

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS),  has opened a new distribution center in Abbotsford, British Columbia. The Abbotsford location, the company’s first in British Columbia and ninth in Canada, will increase the local supply of the company’s products and improve customer service.

The Water Environment Federation (WEF), has announced a new national municipal stormwater and green infrastructure awards program. Developed through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the program aims to recognize high-performing regulated Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) and inspire them to exceed requirements through innovative and cost-effective approaches.

CULTEC, Inc. has introduced its newest and largest chamber to the stormwater market – the Recharger 902HD. This ultra-high capacity model offers the benefit of minimizing project costs by maximizing storage volume in a given footprint. The Recharger 902HD is an ideal solution for high-volume stormwater management systems due to its lightweight maneuverability, shipping and stockpiling benefits and design flexibility.

CULTEC, Inc. has released StormGenie v.2.5, the newest version of its automated drawing program. StormGenie is a convenient AutoCAD plug-in tool used by engineers, contractors and landscape architects to quickly create preliminary stormwater system proposals and final designs and generate project-specific drawings for the company’s Contactor and Recharger stormwater chambers. The updated version of the software can now draw from both CULTEC’s Stormwater Design Calculator and HydroCAD’s Chamber Wizard.

More frequent storm events of ever-increasing intensity, which many attribute to climate change, have prompted municipalities across Canada to look at ways to guard against flooding to homes and businesses.

Following a two-year test of various types of pavement, The Living City Campus at Kortright, a centre of excellence for urban sustainability in Vaughan, Ontario, has shown positive results for AZEK Permeable Pavers. The Toronto & Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) incorporated the pavers as a test surface in a 1,200 sq. ft. portion of the centre’s parking area.

Brentwood is extending its stormwater product line with the introduction of the StormTank Pack to provide a light-duty solution for subsurface stormwater management. The Pack is a cost-effective alternative for non-load-bearing applications and is commonly utilized under landscaped areas such as parks, plazas, and backyards. It is designed for optimum infiltration and integration in bio-retention and rainwater harvesting applications.

Imagine if a municipality could plan for an extreme weather event by designing its infrastructure to minimize the damage to areas most vulnerable to flooding. The result could mean millions in savings to cities and homeowners, and to insurance companies that could be spared a costly spike in claim payouts.

To help control costs and meet the requirements for the deep burial of a road expansion’s new stormwater drainage line, a highly-engineered corrugated pipe from Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS) was used. The ADS N-12 HP pipe is designed and manufactured to handle heavy dead and AASHTO designated live loads without any additional bedding or special fill. More than 1,840 feet of the pipe was used in diameters ranging from 12 to 60 inches. In one area, the 60- inch diameter corrugated pipe is covered by 21 feet of fill. The project was originally specified to use rubber-gasketed reinforced concrete pipe (RCP).

Brentwood Industries, Inc. is extending its stormwater product line with the launch of StormTank Shield. This device is designed to improve sumped inlet treatment and reduces pollutant discharge through gross sediment removal and oil/water separation.

StormwateRx LLC, a provider of industrial stormwater treatment and filtration systems, announced the availability of Aquip Downspout, a new configuration of the Aquip stormwater filtration system specifically for attachment to roof downspouts. Aquip Downspout removes particulate and dissolved zinc and other heavy metals that are often present from facilities with zinc-coated or galvanized metal roofing or HVAC equipment. Stormwater running off of facilities with galvanized metals is a major cause of zinc pollution and aquatic toxicity in local waterways. Installing Aquip Downspout on a building with galvanized roofing can permanently reduce zinc concentrations by 98%, helping industrial facilities meet stormwater benchmarks for zinc and other metals.

A new and improved stormwater design calculator is now available from CULTEC, Inc. The calculator is an MS Excel-based spreadsheet for designing stormwater systems using the company’s chambers. It can be used as a standalone tool to generate report outputs based on a project’s parameters.
The calculator provides chamber specifications, a material list, and bed detail as well as calculates a cross section detail together with the breakdown of storage provided by the system. Additionally, it includes full data sheets with metric and English units to qualify project calculations. An enhanced interface includes easy navigation and product images. 

Owners and operators of older backhoes, forklifts and many other diesel-powered non-road machines in Metro Vancouver have to register their machines in 2012 and start paying fees to comply with new air pollution regulations.

An innovative new patented technology transforms office building windows into “solar farms” and allows these structures to reuse collected energy and become self-sufficient in the event of a power outage. This technology also allows building owners to return electricity to the main electrical grid and generate income.

Hydro-Québec has announced that 10 Mitsubishi i-MiEVs were delivered this morning to Boucherville businesses selected for the third and final phase of the largest electric vehicle (EV) trial in Canada. The project, which was launched in 2010, will continue until the end of 2013.

Renewable energy capacity will more than triple, while doubling its overall percentage of the U.S. energy mix, by 2036. In addition, natural gas could overtake coal as the primary fuel for U.S. power generation. These conclusions and many more are among key findings from Black & Veatch’s year-end Energy Market Perspective (EMP).

The Quebec government has shown climate leadership with its announcement that its cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will come into effect on January 1, 2012, according to the citizen group Equiterre. Quebec joins California as the first two jurisdictions to implement this type of regulation under the Western Climate Initiative (WCI).

The Canadian Water Summit is for the first time moving west. The third annual event will be held in Calgary in June 2012 to explore the competing water needs of cities, agriculture and energy.

CULTEC, Inc. introduces a new Recharger 150XLHD stormwater detention/retention chamber, featuring a greater capacity than its Recharger 150HD and enhanced shipping capabilities. 

CULTEC offers a new edition of its free HydroCAD CULTEC modeling software. The company’s updated edition is available in conjunction with a release of the latest HydroCAD-9.1 version and can be downloaded at www.cultec.com/hydrocaddownload.html.

The lightweight EZflow gravelless drainage systems eliminate problems inherent with gravel drainage systems. These flexible pipe systems composed of polystyrene aggregate enclosed in a woven geotextile mesh are ideal for trench, curtain, landscape, foundation, retaining wall, and interceptor drains. The bundles come pre-assembled in 10-foot sections weighing only eight pounds and are available in 7, 10 and 15-inch diameters.

The lightweight EZflow gravelless drainage systems eliminate problems inherent with gravel drainage systems. These flexible pipe systems composed of polystyrene aggregate enclosed in a woven geotextile mesh are ideal for trench, curtain, landscape, foundation, retaining wall, and interceptor drains. The bundles come pre-assembled in 10-foot sections weighing only eight pounds and are available in 7, 10 and 15-inch diameters.

The CheckMate Inline Check Valve is ideal for backflow prevention and odor mitigation. In outfalls, stormwater, CSO and SSO applications, the CheckMate’s custom-engineered, all-rubber unibody design eliminates costly backflow from oceans, rivers and interceptors. The valve’s unique elastomer fabric-reinforced design provides a proven record of maintenance-free performance, cost savings and results that no other inline check valve can match.

An extensive line of Chemineer turbine agitators with advanced impeller design options, and Kenics static mixers provide beneficial solutions for effective water treatment. Chemineer has over 50 years experience in the design and manufacture of fluid agitation equipment and is a recognized leader in advanced mixing solutions for the municipal and industrial water treatment industries.

Gwinnett County, part of regional Atlanta, has selected FlowWorks, Inc. to manage all sanitary sewer flow and rainfall monitoring data for the Department of Water Resources on annual contract. The selection was made, in part, because of FlowWorks’ proven ability to accept data directly from Teledyne Isco and ADS flow meters.