Thursday, February 21, 2002
Some Good News
Safety addressed at MSD
After the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack, Metropolitan Sewer District employees began thinking about the danger that could be caused if a tank car full of chlorine, used for treating waste water, should rupture at the Mill Creek Treatment Plant.
They started a project to eliminate the chlorine process, and within two weeks had replaced the treatment system that had been used 43 years.
As a result, Biju George, senior engineer who led a team of engineers to install the alternate system, has been awarded the 2001 Engineers and Scientists of Greater Cincinnati Professional Achievement Award.
Mr. George will be presented the award at 7 p.m. today at the RSVP Restaurant, 453 Wards Corner Road, Loveland.
“It is great to get the award,” Mr. George said. “I feel that anyone in my position would have done the same thing, knowing the potential danger.”
The Mill Creek plant had used chlorine gas to disinfect waste water since the facility was built in 1959. Chlorine was delivered to the site in rail cars and used directly from the cars.
Mr. George said there were four 90-ton rail cars of chlorine gas, which could affect an area within a radius area of 14 miles in a failure.
Mr. George led the employees to design, install, test and commission the alternate disinfection system, using a liquid disinfectant. The new system was installed without violating EPA permit requirements.
Mr. George, 38, is a graduate from the PDA College of Engineering in Karnataka, India. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio.
Charles Kane, treatment supervisor, and Pete Schneider, retired treatment superintendent, nominated Mr. George for the award.
The Mill Creek plant treats waste water flow up to 450 million gallons a day. The risk reduction to the community earned MSD a Risk Reduction Achievement Award from the Alliance for Chemical Safety.
Seniors at Seasons Retirement Community, 7300 Dearwester Drive, Kenwood, will say thanks to Sycamore Township police officers and firefighters at 9 a.m. today with a pancake breakfast.
The breakfast will be served in the main dining room at Seasons.
“We just wanted a chance to say thank you to the men and women who do so much for us every day,” the seniors said in a statement.
Free classes are offered at All Ye Saints Christian Coffee House, 5910 Madison Road, Madisonville, to improve communication between parents and children and to prevent violence.
To register, or for more information, call 852-9883.
Allen Howard's “Some Good News” column runs Monday-Friday and Sundays. If you have suggestions about outstanding achievements, or people who are committing random acts of kindness that are uplifting to the Tristate, let him know at (513) 768-8362; at ahoward@enquirer.com; or by fax at (513) 768-8340.
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