With all the concerns today about environmental liability,
some of the key issues that manufacturers face include: Globalization, Impact of
new science and engineering technology, Information systems and e Commerce,
Supply chain management, Changes in production processes and manufacturing,
Sustainability, Significant impact on energy savings and Environmental
performance.
At Environmental Leverage all of these issues are important concerns.
Delivering you innovative and technical expertise and sound business solutions
to help you improve your bottom line is our goal.
Our Mission
In the 21st century, no company or industry can hope for long-term survival
unless it achieves significant gains in Environmental protection, Social
progress and Economic development. Our mission is to help you reduce your
liabilities while leveraging more of your assets.
Market demand for environmental technologies and
services is growing rapidly in many parts of the world. The driver for the
majority of the recent changes in water management technology is regulatory
compliance and ISO 14000. These regulations encompass increasingly stringent
drinking water quality, pollutant discharge, and worker health and safety
requirements and include the minimization of solid and hazardous wastes as well
as air quality controls.
Since environmental regulations are making a huge impact on the way
corporations run their businesses, our goals at Environmental Leverage is to keep
you up to date on the issues, the regulations, and how they will impact your company so
that you can focus more on your core competencies. Delivering reliability,
knowledge and technical expertise are the keys to helping you make your company
achieve significant gains.
Industrial customers nowadays not only have to worry about the financial
impact of the fines associated with new regulations that may be generated if
violations occur, but the possibility of production curtailment, cutbacks from
corporate levels, community awareness and potentially even incarceration. The
value of the fine is a small portion of the “environmental trouble factor” for a
plant manager. The public relations cost can also be significant to large
corporations since nuisance complaints are on the rise and could cost
corporations valuable time and money on meetings, public relations persons,
paperwork to be filed, new regulations filings, etc. Cutbacks in experienced
personnel as well as training programs are making it harder and harder for
companies to meet permits or to explore new technologies that can make things
easier.
Industry Pages
Boiler
and Cooling Tower Blowdown
Cooling Tower
Microscopic analyses
Municipal Customers have numerous issues to worry about.
With all the new growth in a village or city, many changes are happening that
impact the ability of the P.O.T.W. to handle the incoming wastewater.
High
growth spurts in new developments have not only impacted the flow rates to the
wastewater treatment plant, but the loading has increased also.
The public works department has to worry about issues with Grease and solids
build-up in the lift stations and sewers. Cleaning up grease can be costly, a
safety issue and an overall nightmare.
The impact of grease further down into the wastewater treatment plant
Municipalities
Regulatory Trends and Directions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the primary
federal agency regulating the quality of drinking water, the pollutants
contained in wastewater discharges and the use of the products that are used in
various water treatment methods.
The EPA has been lowering NPDES effluent permit
discharge levels for several years. It is harder for plant operators to meet
these permit levels with more restrictions imposed upon them without improving
current waste treatment plants or exploring beneficial reuse programs.
Listed below are some of the most high profile regulations currently in
place. Details on the regulations and their potential impact can be found at the
correlating websites. Note- the EPA constantly updates their website. If the
links below do not work- go to www.EPA.gov and use their search engines if all
else fail.
Water Science...setting baselines for safe and clean water
http://www.epa.gov/OST/
Members of Water Environment Federation (WEF) and TAPPI
Environmental since 1992
Wisconsin Wastewater Association
Illinois Wastewater Operators Association
Kish-Rock Wastewater Operators Association
Contact Information
Environmental Leverage Inc.
Principal Consultant: Tracy Finnegan
- Telephone
- 630-906-9791
- FAX
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630-906-9792
- Postal address - Main Office
- 812 Dogwood Drive Suite A
- North Aurora, IL 60542
- Electronic mail
- General Information:
ELFEnvironmental@aol.com
Sales: DanielKramer@EnvironmentalLeverage.com
- Customer Support:
TracyFinnegan@Environmentalleverage.com
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- Webmaster:
Admin@EnvironmentalLeverage.com
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- Southern Region: Two Locations
1614 MapleLeaf Falls
Allen, TX 75002
3716 S. Knoxville Ave
Tulsa, OK 74135
- Western Region:
3136 Wildwood Drive Longview WA 98632
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- Eastern Region:
2502 Little River Neck Road
North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29582
- Chicago Area:
27W750 Sycamore
West Chicago, IL 60185
We have just opened a new
branch in New Zealand
Contact Information
Environmental Leverage Inc.
Nanette August
- Telephone
- (06) 8774126
- Cell 021 686008
- Postal address - Main Office
- 14A Kopanga Road, Havelock North.
- Electronic mail
- General Information:
Nanette@EnvironmentalLeverage.com
- or wayne@lyve.co.nz
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Revised: July 22, 2008.
