Cleaning Up Polluted Land.The Naval Facilities Engineering The term "facilities engineering" evolved from "plant engineering" in the early 1990s as U.S. workplaces became more complex. Practitioners preferred this term because it more accurately reflected the multidisciplinary demands for specialized conditions in a wider variety of indoor Center (NFESC NFESC Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center ) in Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. , Calif., has agreed to the innovative use of treatment wetlands. These wetlands are designed to cut off waste streams and strengthen the natural mechanisms of the earth to remove contaminants. Ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. and Environment Inc., of Buffalo, N.Y., will perform the application as part of the NFESC's Broad Agency Announcement contracting initiative. Because they have fairly low operation and maintenance requirements, treatment wetlands could yield more long-term savings than traditional alternatives, such as "pump-and-treat." |
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