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Officials say a restaurant will move into the former Cafe De Paris space at the corner of Capitol and Quarrier Streets in Charleston.

There is still no physical indication or word from the business or building owner as to what is moving into the former Cafe de Paris space located at 201 Capitol Street, but the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department confirmed Tuesday a business started the paperwork to operate a restaurant there.

Matt Ballard, Charleston Area Alliance president and CEO, whose organization has been working for several months now with that business, said the restaurant moving into the space is not a Steak Escape, despite rumors circulating around town.

Its not a national chain, Ballard said. Its West Virginia-based.

Building owner John Smallridge is in the restaurant industry himself, and has previously franchised Steak Escape restaurants.

Smallridge could not be reach for comment.

The business applied for the Alliances facade design grant, Ballard told the Gazette in December. He added the new business addition would complement the existing businesses around it.

At Smallridges request, David Winowich, with KCHD, would not disclose the name of the business. The paperwork hasnt officially been filed with the health department yet.

Hayes Brothers Construction spent a week in mid-December removing the main floor and some fixtures from the former French restaurant.

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Two companies negligently installed a brick oven in a restaurant in Market Square, causing a fire that resulted in more than $500,000 worth of damage to two buildings, a Boston-based insurance company claims in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.

Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. is seeking to recover the $509,429.31 it paid the buildings' owner on a damage claim from the fire Feb. 24.

The insurer claims that PBI Construction Co. LLC and Quality Mechanical Services Inc. are responsible for the fire in NOLA restaurant that damaged Perl, an adjacent restaurant.

PBI Construction of Richland declined comment.

Nick Birkos, vice president of Quality Mechanical Services in Penn Hills, said the company reviewed a preliminary copy of the lawsuit and prepared a response denying it was responsible for the fire. There's no proof that we had anything to do with it, he said.

Though the brick oven was installed in the same spot as a previous oven, its hood wasn't aligned with the exhaust flue in the ceiling, so the companies used various elbows and angles to connect the new oven exhaust ductwork to the existing ductwork and flue, the lawsuit says.

The companies failed to take into account that the ductwork ran near combustible material in the ceiling, the lawsuit says.

Birkos said his company didn't install ductwork.

It only welded a connection from the new oven's hood to the duct system, he said.

Pittsburgh inspectors cited the restaurant for failing to obtain a permit which would have included plans signed by a registered designer to install the oven. The restaurant corrected the violations, a city spokesman said.

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MIDLAND, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STW Resources Holding Corp (OTCQB: STWS), a leader in oilfield water reclamation and remediation, has signed an initial $2.9 million contract to build, operate and maintain a comprehensive system of water reclamation facilities for a NYSE-listed oil & gas company with multiple locations throughout the Permian Basin, Stanley Weiner, CEO of STW Water, announced today. STW Water, with its partner TRE & Associates, LLC (TRE) (a civil engineering firm), is moving forward to obtain drinking water permits and to build water systems for the clients field operation facility in Midland, Texas and its Mancamp housing facilities across its Texas operations.

The leader in water treatment systems for the oil & gas industry, STW Water, will assist in the fabrication and furnishing of equipment, installation, training, and maintenance of complete water reclamation and treatment systems for its client. The company, along with TRE, will also assist in water well development, testing final construction and securing potable water permits for wells from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

We are especially gratified that our client, one of the largest operators in the Permian Basin, has selected STW as their partner in realizing their industry-leading commitment to diligently reduce their consumption of clean municipal drinking water, both for production requirements and facility operations, noted Weiner. This contract underscores STW Waters leadership as the partner of choice in providing technologies and solutions for improved sustainability.

As new housing facilities and Mancamps are built throughout the state to support the tremendous growth in the Permian Basin, STW Water and TRE have been contracted to facilitate approvals for potable water supply from TCEQ for the Dockum Brackish Water aquifer wells at a depth of 1400+ ft.

STW Water and TRE have submitted their engineering design for their proprietary treatment process capable of treating high brackish water from the Dockum aquifer wells with total dissolved solids in the range of 8500 ppm, satisfying the clients needs for both corporate and field operations. STW Waters innovative process and exclusively license technology will be the first of its kind in the State of Texas to produce reclaimed potable water with no negative environmental impact.

STWs design and technology eliminates the need for deep well wastewater injections, evaporation ponds and other recognized methods for disposal of concentrated brine wasted from desalination activities. The proprietary Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system is free of potentially damaging concentrated brine discharge. The system consists of a STW hybrid high-brackish reverse osmosis unit permitting up to 85% fresh water recovery, followed by the patented ZLD system capable of achieving 95-97% fresh water recovery and 3-5% solid waste consisting of salt crystals and minerals.

The ZLDTM unit is exclusively licensed to STW through its partner, Salttech, BV. This water processing system offers several technological advancements over conventional systems: It produces a solid discharge that is easily used or sold, generates a substantially higher percentage of clean drinking water per gallon of brackish or ocean water, is 60% more compact than alternatives, and is highly energy efficient, using up to 50% less energy than comparable conventional systems.

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WORCESTER'S parking enforcement regime has been branded "petty and mean" by a self-employed plumber who was handed a fine while parked outside a house where he was working.

Paul Kelly went to an emergency call out at a house in Barry Street in the Arboretum at about 9am on Monday morning, but found himself forced to leave his car on a single yellow line directly outside the house after he was unable to find anywhere else to park in the area - which is frequently extremely congested with parked cars.

Mr Kelly said he knew he was parked in a restricted area - where all waiting is banned between 8.30pm and 5.30pm every day except Sunday - but had left a note in the windscreen hoping it would avoid him getting a ticket.

But when he returned to his car he found he had been given a 70 parking fine.

Mr Kelly said he was disappointed the enforcement officer had taken no notice of the fact he was carrying out urgent plumbing work.

"I was only there for about 15 minutes," he said.

"I made sure the road was clear and a fire engine could get through if it needed to.

"The ticket said I was observed between 9.10am and 9.16am - in those six minutes they could have knocked on the door and asked me to move.

"I used to work in Birmingham and when this sort of thing happened there they would knock on the door

"It's just petty and mean."

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WORCESTER'S parking enforcement regime has been branded "petty and mean" by a self-employed plumber who was handed a fine while parked outside a house where he was working.

Paul Kelly went to an emergency call out at a house in Barry Street in the Arboretum at about 9am on Monday morning, but found himself forced to leave his car on a single yellow line directly outside the house after he was unable to find anywhere else to park in the area - which is frequently extremely congested with parked cars.

Mr Kelly said he knew he was parked in a restricted area - where all waiting is banned between 8.30pm and 5.30pm every day except Sunday - but had left a note in the windscreen hoping it would avoid him getting a ticket.

But when he returned to his car he found he had been given a 70 parking fine.

Mr Kelly said he was disappointed the enforcement officer had taken no notice of the fact he was carrying out urgent plumbing work.

"I was only there for about 15 minutes," he said.

"I made sure the road was clear and a fire engine could get through if it needed to.

"The ticket said I was observed between 9.10am and 9.16am - in those six minutes they could have knocked on the door and asked me to move.

"I used to work in Birmingham and when this sort of thing happened there they would knock on the door

"It's just petty and mean."

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Plumber says note on windscreen should have stopped him getting parking fine

WORCESTER'S parking enforcement regime has been branded "petty and mean" by a self-employed plumber who was handed a fine while parked outside a house where he was working.

Paul Kelly went to an emergency call out at a house in Barry Street in the Arboretum at about 9am on Monday morning, but found himself forced to leave his car on a single yellow line directly outside the house after he was unable to find anywhere else to park in the area - which is frequently extremely congested with parked cars.

Mr Kelly said he knew he was parked in a restricted area - where all waiting is banned between 8.30pm and 5.30pm every day except Sunday - but had left a note in the windscreen hoping it would avoid him getting a ticket.

But when he returned to his car he found he had been given a 70 parking fine.

Mr Kelly said he was disappointed the enforcement officer had taken no notice of the fact he was carrying out urgent plumbing work.

"I was only there for about 15 minutes," he said.

"I made sure the road was clear and a fire engine could get through if it needed to.

"The ticket said I was observed between 9.10am and 9.16am - in those six minutes they could have knocked on the door and asked me to move.

"I used to work in Birmingham and when this sort of thing happened there they would knock on the door

"It's just petty and mean."

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Before temperatures plummet this week, there are steps you can take to keep your pipes from freezing and bursting.

Greenville Plumber Walt Pollard says homes with crawl spaces and manufactured homes with underpinning are most at risk. He advises closing the crawl space vents and securing underpinning to homes to prevent cold air from circulating around the pipes.

Pollard says it's also a good idea to wrap pipes in foam or insulation, if possible. He says pipes most likely to freeze and break are those leading to outdoor spigots.

Garden hoses also need to be disconnected and Pollard suggests opening the spigot just enough for it to drip. Pollard adds that kitchen sinks are often found next to exterior walls and it's not a bad idea to let them drip as well.

Keep in mind, he says most important of all is to know how to turn your water off in the event that a pipe does break.

"If you have a pipe burst inside a home, it can lead to a lot of damage," says Pollard. "Being able to shut off your water quickly would certainly minimize any damage that could arise from that."

Pollard says most homes typically have a shut off valve located in a downstairs closet near the floor. Others require a water key and have to be turned off in the yard.

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