Claude Laval Corporation Announces 2011 Ben Everson Scholarship Winners for Groundwater Industry

Aug. 5, 2011 - PRLog -- This year’s winners are Louis Vaught and William Pearson.

Every year the Claude Laval Corporation, manufacturers of LAKOS products, and Laval Underground Surveys, awards two $1,000 scholarships to two college students who are pursuing a degree in the groundwater field.

Vaught plans on majoring in Civil Engineering at The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. He hopes to continue his family’s business of rehabilitating water wells.

Pearson is majoring in Geological Engineering at Michigan Technical University in Houston, Mich. He hopes to one day design systems that can help renew contaminated groundwater in order to provide clean drinking water for developing countries.

CLC awards the scholarships every year to promote the advancement of new minds and fresh ideas in the groundwater industry.

“LAKOS and Laval Underground Surveys are committed to the long-term health of the groundwater industry, and to all efforts to make the most effective use of our water,” said chairman Claude Laval, “These scholarships are intended to encourage studies that support these goals.”

For more details on the Ben Everson Scholarship, visit http://www.beneversonscholarship.com/.

For more details on LAKOS Separators and Filtration Solutions visit http://www.lakos.com/.

For more details about Laval Underground surveys visit http://www.lavalunderground.com/.

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About LAKOS Separators and Filtration Solutions: A global leader in filtration equipment and manufacturer of centrifugal separators designed to remove solids from liquids in residential, water well, industrial, and HVAC applications. Includes packaged filtration solutions to provide continuous cleaning of cooling tower basins, sumps, heat exchangers, and other HVAC equipment. LAKOS products are manufactured by the Claude Laval Corporation, a 100,000+ square foot manufacturing, sales, marketing, and engineering facility in Fresno, Ca.