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Stantec, Boston, announced it is donating $50,000 to Water for People, a U.S. and Canadian charity organization that provides water, sanitation and hygiene education support to developing countries, and has several representatives throughout New England. The donation was made while recognizing National Drinking Water Week, early last year. In 2003, the company supervised the construction of a water supply infrastructure project in Malawi, Africa, one of Water for People’s targeted countries. Visit www.stantec.com.GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., Norwood, Mass., announced that Baystate Environmental Consultants Inc. of East Longmeadow, Mass., and East Hartford, Conn., has joined the company and expanded its capabilities in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Baystate will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of GZA, and will continue to operate from the East Longmeadow location. The Hartford office will merge into GZA’s newly expanded office in Bloomfield, Conn., later this year. Visit www.gza.com.
SCS Engineers, West Palm Beach, Fla., announced the relocation of the Palm Beach office to a new larger facility. The increased office space will accommodate the growing company’s practice in environmental services and solid waste engineering. The office will help serve a range of municipalities, private industry and governmental agencies in South Florida. Visit www.scsengineers.com.
HRP Associates Inc., Farmington, Conn., celebrated 25 years in the consulting business in May. Over 300 employees, clients and suppliers were in attendance. The company has assisted over 6,000 clients in the government, industrial and commercial sectors in 46 states and four foreign countries. Visit www.hrpassociates.com.
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AMEC, Albuquerque, N.M., has finished construction of three groundwater cleanup systems at a federal Superfund site in northern New Mexico and is now pilot testing bioremediation techniques prior to full-scale operation. The $3.8 million project was designed to treat a plume of perchloroethylene (PCE) contamination that stretched three quarters of a mile from Norge Town Dry Cleaners toward the Rio Grande River. Extending as much as 260 feet below ground surface, it was estimated that the plume has affected at least 280 million gallons of water, forced the closure of two city supply wells and threatened to spread into the river. The site is located in the City of Española on the Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation. Visit www.amec.com/earthandenvironmental.The Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, La., announced that it has made an equity investment in Blue Water Technologies Inc., a privately held company based in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. Blue Water’s core business is water treatment technologies, the tertiary treatment of industrial and municipal wastewater to reduce phosphorus and other contaminants to extremely low levels. The company utilizes a proprietary process developed at the University of Idaho, which is licensed exclusively to Blue Water. Extensive testing through pilot studies and full-scale deployment have consistently yielded over 99-percent removal rates. Visit www.shawgrp.com.
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