Badger Meter Purchases Cox Instruments, Flow Dynamics

Badger Meter Inc. of Milwaukee, Wis., has purchased Cox Instruments LLC of Scottsdale, Ariz., and its subsidiary companies Flow Dynamics Inc. and Exact Flow, suppliers of precision and industrial flow measurement instrumentation. The acquisition combines the resources of the three flow measurement companies into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Badger Meter Inc. named Cox Flow Measurement Inc., which will continue to be based in Scottsdale, along with its management team.

Ottumwa, Iowa, Receives EPA Grant for Sewer Project

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the City of Ottumwa, Iowa, $291,000 for ongoing construction of a multi-phased combined sewer separation project. The purpose of the project is to eliminate combined sewer overflows and basement backups for residents on the south side of the Des Moines River in Ottumwa. The area has recorded more than 500 basement backups over a 10-year period. The project also will reduce the amount of phosphorus entering Oxbow Lake, which has been identified as impaired by algae, turbidity and chlordane.

Jamko Receives PACP Certification

Jamko has received the Pipeline Assessment and Certification Program (PACP) certification from the National Association of Sewer Service Companies. NASSCO develops standards and best practices for the rehabilitation of underground pipelines and is the North American standard for sewer defect identification and assessment, providing standardization and consistency to the methods in which sewer pipe conditions are evaluated and TV inspection results are managed.