Articles
Airports - Dealing with FOD - The Dreaded Menace to Jet Aircraft
June 11, 2009
As PT Jones, Senior Director of Maintenance Operation, surveys the runways and flight lines around Elsinore Airframe Services, Inc., there is a definite seriousness in his voice as he talks about foreign object damage (FOD) and the aircraft that frequent the Waco, Texas, maintenance and modification center.
Clean Sweep - Toronto
June 11, 2009
Toronto's air will be much cleaner thanks to a new street sweeping program recently implemented by Canada's largest city. Conventional mechanical street sweepers use a system of gutter brooms and main broom to sweep the dust and debris that typically accumulates on city streets and in gutters. While some of the material is collected by the machine, much of the fine road dust - which originates from asphalt, rubber tires, and wearing of brake discs and pads - kicked up by the sweeper is dissipated into the air, adversely affecting air quality.
Clean Roads - Toronto Clean Roads to Clean Air
June 11, 2009
The City of Toronto’s "Clean Roads to Clean Air" initiative was conceived as a potential means of cleaning the city’s air of a citywide and year-round health-based problem linked to "invisible" fine particulate matter1 which is particulate matter less than 10 microns aerodynamic diameter (PM10) which includes particulates less than 2.5 microns aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5). The City’s recent purchase of "new technology" sweepers has been determined in large measure, but not exclusively of regular operational and economic considerations, by a performance standard that was incorporated into sweeper purchase requirements to ensure particulate matter was both removed from the streets being swept, and was not redistributed into the air Torontonians breathed. Recently acquired "new technology" sweeper purchases are being subjected to citywide and street-specific ambient air quality monitoring to confirm that such new sweepers do indeed "clean the air."
San Antonio, Texas - Cleaning San Antonio
June 11, 2009
The Clean Water Act of 1972, passed by Congress and amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, established requirements, policy measures, and standards to be regulated and enforced by the EPA The EPA later established regulatory components under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Permit requirements for storm water discharges were levied upon associated industries and municipalities with populations over 100,000. The city of San Antonio, with its population well over one million residents, clearly was included in the scope.
Tyler, Texas - TYMCO Regenerative Air Sweepers Rejuvenate the Environment
June 11, 2009
No More Dusty Trails. In today's environmentally conscious society, TYMCO manufactures sweepers that do a lot more than just pick up street litter. Drive through Tyler, Texas and you'll notice that the city has, well, a rather rosy appearance. It's not only because this colorful, flower-laden U.S. town is pegged "the rose capital of the world." Tyler's street maintenance crews strive to keep the streets of this bustling city as visually aesthetic as the rose gardens that grow there.
