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Legislative issues as well as letters to the editor are covered this month.

It’s easy to get rude when times are good, but customers have long memories.

There are two primary reasons for having a pressure tank in a pumped water system -- to give the pump motor time to dissipate the extra heat energy generated each time the pump starts, and to store water under pressure so the pump does not have to come on every time there is a small, intermittent demand for water.

We just returned from the National Ground Water Association exposition in Orlando, Fla., and for those who missed it, it was a great show.

Safety meetings are a good time to discuss cold weather operations with the crew.

Photovoltaic (PV) panels produce electricity from sunlight using silicon cells, with no moving parts. They have been mass-produced since 1979. They are so reliable that most manufacturers offer a 25-year warranty. They work well in cold or hot weather. Solar water pumps are specially designed to utilize DC electric power from photovoltaic panels.

When an entrepreneur decided to turn a gigantic airship hangar in Germany into a tropical paradise resort destination, he turned to ITT’s Lowara unit to provide pumps systems and expertise to power the water supply system.

At a new zero-discharge wastewater treatment plant near Atlanta, pumps and aerators are used in a variety of applications along the 25-mile-long collection system, including supplying water to the sprinkler systems at the Bentwater Golf Course, and the greens at the Governor’s Towne Club Course, in Paulding County, Ga.

It was an enthusiastic, if not overflowing, crowd at the 2007 National Ground Water Expo and Annual Meeting.

Brayman Construction Corp., headquartered outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., provided a diverse range of products and services for the fast-track SR-28 project in Etna, Pa.