ExxonMobil
was awarded the outstanding 2004 ground-water conservation
award of the Capital Area Ground Water Conservation
Commission. The "2,000-foot" sand in the industrial district
has been pumped heavily for industrial use in the past.
Their present emphasis is to expand the use of clarified
river water and reduce the total amount of ground-water
withdrawal. During the past year two cooling towers were
converted from ground water to river water reducing the
pumpage from the deep sands by 600,000 gallons per day. Dale
Aucoin, who serves as Technical Committee Chairman for the
Commission, accepted the award for ExxonMobil.
A certificate of appreciation was also awarded to
Georgia-Pacific Corporation. Instead of adding new wells for a towel plant
Georgia-Pacific invested in pumps and piping to reuse effluent from paper
machine operations for pulp washing in the pulp mill. The water reclamation
project was designed to reuse up to 4.7 million gallons of water per day. Ronnie
Albritton, environmental supervisor at Georgia-Pacific, accepted the award.
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