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HUNT VALLEY, MD, February 21, 2007—The Maryland Chapter of the American Council of Engineering Companies honored three KCI Technologies projects—Enhanced Nutrient Removal at the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Fish Passage Program, and the MD Route 70 bridges over College and Weems creeks—at its annual Engineering Excellence Awards banquet in Baltimore on Tuesday, February 20.
KCI’s Enhanced Nutrient Removal (ENR) Project at the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant took Outstanding Project honors in the studies, research and consulting category. Tim Wolfe, PE, division chief of the Hunt Valley Environmental Engineering Division, accepted the award for KCI. In addition to winning a KCI Project Excellence Award in 2005, the Patapsco project won an Engineering Excellence Award in planning from the American Academy of Environmental Engineering in 2006. KCI worked with joint venture partner Johnson Mirmiran and Thompson Inc. in completing the innovative study that involved concept design development, detailed process modeling, bench scale testing, a one-year pilot testing program, and detailed cost evaluations. The team recommended and prepared preliminary designs for a biological aeration filter (BAF) process. Relatively rare in the U.S., BAFs are used throughout Europe and Asia. When complete, Patapsco’s ENR enhancements are expected to eliminate 31% of the nitrogen proposed for removal by all 66 plants involved in Maryland’s ENR program, while saving Baltimore and the surrounding counties $75 million.
At the same banquet, KCI’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge (WWB) Fish Passage and MD Route 70 projects received Awards of Merit in the environmental and transportation categories, respectively. Vice President Charles Hegberg, of the Resource Management Group, joined Maryland State Highway Administration officials in accepting the award for the fish passage work, which opened 26 miles of historic spawning habitat by removing 23 blockages to fish passage in five streams. The WWB Fish Passage project was also recognized by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association with a 2006 Globe Award. Bob Lynch, PE, and Jim Webler, PE, engineers in KCI’s Hunt Valley Structures Division, accepted the award for the MD Route 70 project, which involved rehabilitation of two bridges and development of aesthetic treatments to create a formal gateway to Maryland’s historic capital of Annapolis. In November, Mid-Atlantic Construction magazine recognized KCI’s MD Route 70 project as the Best of 2006 in the highways/bridges/roads category.###
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