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On Sunday 28th March 2010, in the balmy waters off the New South Wales coastline, FM Environmental’s Kevin Fitzpatrick took the plunge for the start of his third long-distance triathlon challenge, Ironman Australia. Having already completed Ironman races in France and Lanzarote, Kevin was going for a personal best time in almost ideal warm-weather conditions.

The Ironman is triathlon’s toughest endurance test combining a 2.4 mile swim with a 112 mile bike and ending with a full 26 mile marathon. The mass swim start is one of the most exciting spectacles in sport with around 1500 competitors turning tranquil ocean waters into a threshing frenzy of arms and legs.

Australia’s Port Macquarie was the picturesque setting for the 25th anniversary of Ironman Australia and even at 6.30am the town was packed with spectators many of whom would still be there 17 hours later when the race officially ended.

Kevin completed the swim in a personal best time of 1 hour 11 minutes and was enjoying a fast bike leg until strong winds picked up near the latter stages. His 6 hours 47 minutes was a solitary minute quicker than his 6:48 two years ago in France.

By the time he started the marathon the temperature had risen to 30 degrees and many of the competitors were beginning to feel the effects of a long day in the sun. The run had some steep and testing climbs but with dusk falling early in the Australian autumn the day eventually started to cool off. Kevin completed the marathon in 4 hours 36 minutes giving him an overall time of 12:47, nearly half an hour faster than his previous best time in France.

“I was thrilled to get under 13 hours and improve my time. It was a tough course but conditions were excellent, apart from a strong wind during the bike. The support from the locals was amazing with people partying and barbequing along the entire course!” remarked Kevin.

Kevin squeezed his Ironman adventure in between business meetings in Sydney and Melbourne where FM Environmental export their range of wastewater treatment products. He is grateful to the Company for their support and looks forward to flying the FM Ironman flag in another corner of the world next year!

Kevin’ Times:
Swim: 1:11:11
Bike: 6:47:06
Run: 4:36:34
T1: Swim to bike: 7:23
T2: Bike to run: 5:13

FM Environmental has been accepted as the “Preferred Supply Chain Partner” to H & J Martin Facilities Management to provide service activities covering pumping stations, motors and sewage treatment plants throughout Northern Ireland Government Estates, as part of the “Property Pan Management Government Collaborative Framework Agreement – Northern Area & Southern Area. Both Northern and Southern Area were separate Tenders.

These installations include the Stormont Estate, Carrickfergus Castle, various Forest Parks including Gosford Park, Slieve Gullion and Tollymore, Agricultural and Veterinary colleges.

The criteria for contract award was based on both Quality and Price. Our investment in such items as van mounted GPS tracker devices and our call management system continue to an essential tool in managing and providing reliable information and service to our client base.

February saw the installation and commissioning of a replacement Archimedean screw pump at Thurles Wastewater treatment plant. Measuring over 7m in length, this giant is one of two screw pumps capable of delivering raw sewerage at a flow rate of 130 liters/second into the main wastewater works. Supplied on this occasion by Landustrie BV of Holland, FM Environmental removed the older screw pump, and safely installed to provide at least another 30 years of service. The installation includes an “ECO-Friendly” lower bearing, which is lubricated for life; the benefit of which means that no grease pump or grease lines are required, therefore easier and quicker installation, corrosion free cast iron housing, no electric parts, and no spare parts are required due to its 3-dimensional self alignment.

Applications for the screw pump are countless:
waste water treatment plant influent pumping stations
waste water treatment plant intermediate pumping stations
return sludge pumping stations
irrigation projects
drainage projects
reclamation of wetlands
circulation within aeration systems
wild water tracks in fun parks
industrial applications
storm water applications

For similar applications, please contact FM Environmental.

FM Environmental is delighted to announce that it has successfully tendered for 11 of 15 wastewater servicing contracts with Wexford County Council which represents 78 sites in total.

As of March 1st 2010, FM Environmental will look after the mechanical/electrical servicing needs of the wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations throughout County Wexford from our Carlow service base as well as from our Mid Ireland and Newry based mobile service response units.

FM Environmental already operates in County Wexford with over 60 private service contracts and designing and installing package sewage treatment plants and pumping station of varying sizes for both private and public schemes

November 2009: Final commissioning of a 600 PE Biosam UT treatment plant in Libya. The system uses an existing septic tank as primary settlement, and pumps up the settled wastewater to two media tanks which are followed by two hopper tanks. The effluent goes through sand filtration and chlorination to make it useable as second class water for irrigation.

December 2009. FM Environmental secures €300,000 order for a 1500PE wastewater treatment plant incorporating pump stations, ammonia, nitrate and phosphate reduction and 10 micron drum screen for County Wexford.

December 2009:
Success in County Clare:
FM Environmental receives approval to install 2no 20kW pumping stations including septicity control, flow meter, building services, valued at over €200,000

Mater Dei Hospital, the main hospital in Malta, has won the 2009 Environment Award for Industry in the category of Conservation for Sustainable Development. Mater Dei Hospital was recognised for its adoption of a holistic programme earmarked to consolidate the newly operational building engineering processes geared with environmental protection in mind. Last year, Mater Dei Hospital started using various environmental friendly features which were included in the design phase. One of these features is a greywater recycle system designed, installed and commissioned by FM Environmental (Malta) Ltd. The 240 m3 per day system takes the greywater from wash basins and showers, which is biologically treated and disinfected to a high quality standard suitable for irrigation purposes of its soft and hard landscaping throughout the hospital.

The treatment plant consists of below ground concrete tanks, consisting of an inlet balance tank, aeration basin, sludge and scum returns, tertiary filtration set-up complete with Sodium Hypochlorite disinfection achieving an effluent quality better than 10:10 mg/l BOD, SS. FM Malta also supplied the control panels, associated instrumentation, all mechanical and electrical installation works and process commissioning.

Deon Minnie & Grant Keen from Transtruct in South Africa visited FM Environmental Head Office last week to sign an agreement with Eamon Fitzpatrick to sell our well known product the Grease Guardian, Automatic Grease Trap in South Africa.
Transtruct are based in East London, South Africa.