Amid concerns that the state is seeing a post-holiday coronavirus surge, the amount of virus found in the wastewater at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s Deer Island treatment plant has reached the highest levels yet.
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Stem, Inc. Awarded Project to Deliver Smart Energy Storage to Massachusetts Water Resource Authority
Stem, Inc.January 13, 2021 GMT
MILLBRAE, Calif., Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Stem, Inc. (“Stem” or “the Company”), a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven energy storage systems, today announced the Company has been awarded a project mandate to provide energy storage solutions to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority ( MWRA ) in Greater Boston, a public agency that provides wholesale water and sewer services reaching more than 3 million people in eastern and central Massachusetts. The project adds to Stem’s significant portfolio of more than 85 megawatt hours (MWh) of water treatment facilities contracted or managed by Athena™, Stem’s AI-powered smart storage software.
A MWRA wet weather sewage discharge outfall warning on the Charles River by the outlet of Boston s Muddy River (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Among the many bills sitting on Gov. Baker’s desk is one requiring cities and towns to notify residents any time raw sewage ends up in a local river or water body.
As gross and alarming as it sounds, sewage dumps actually happen hundreds of times every year in Massachusetts during heavy rain, because of antiquated sewer systems. They release hundreds of millions of gallons of bacteria-laden waste into waterways like the Charles, Mystic and Merrimack Rivers and Boston Harbor, and the problem is expected to worsen as climate change brings heavier and more frequent rainstorms to the region.
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December 15, 2020 at 2:00pm
Every year, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (AAEES) honors an individual who demonstrates leadership, originality and has innovative solutions to current environmental challenges.
Berrin Tansel, professor of environmental engineering and undergraduate program director in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recognized this year. As the first female faculty member to join the College of Engineering & Computing in 1990, Tansel has been awarded AAEES’ 2021 Science Award for her contributions to the field of environmental engineering.
Growing up in a small town in Turkey, Tansel, who is a chemical engineer by training, moved to the states when she received a scholarship to pursue her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin. At the time, environmental engineering was emerging, with regulations being changed by the Environmental Protection Age