ESE Magazine - May 2004

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May 2004 Edition

Beatles fan falls for the wrong John Years ago I worked for an Australian newspaper group. The climate was benign, the pay good and the news room was full of witty characters. When a toilet was stolen from a Methodist Church in North Melbourne, our story ran under the headline; Is nothing sacred? The Australian thief was years ahead of his time. Now it appears that the Liverpool home where John Lennon was raised decades ago, still retains a powerful, if somewhat macabre hold over Beatles‚ devotees. Yoko Ono donated the house to the UK National Trust to become a shrine for Beatles fans who remain passionate about the Fab Four decades after his demise.
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A diverse range of case histories and new developments are reviewed in ES&E's semi-annual look at tanks, containment systems and spill management.

St. John's installs low-pressure membrane system St. John's, Newfoundland, is one of the oldest cities in North America. Located on the Northeast Avalon Peninsula, the St. John's Urban Region is home to almost 200,000 people.
Three regional water treatment plants (WTPs) serve the population: Bay Bulls Big Pond, Petty Harbour Long Pond and Windsor Lake. The regional authority owns, operates and maintains Bay Bulls; the city, Petty Harbour and Windsor Lake. The city is also responsible for various pumping stations, meter chambers and pressurereducing valves throughout the distribution system.
A boil water advisory, issued in August 2001, helped spur the city to investigate ways of better treating its surface water. St. John's previously used conventional screening, chlorination and pH adjustment as the sole means of treating water at both Windsor Lake and Petty Harbour, and was unable to meet proposed regulatory treatment requirements.
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