Heckmann Corporation Announces Preliminary Results of 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

Heckmann Corporation of Palm Desert, California (NYSE:HEK, HEK.U, HEK.WS) announced that at today’s first Annual Meeting of Stockholders all Board of Director nominees were re-elected and all agenda items were approved. The Company utilizes a classified and staggered board protocol that generally nominates one class of board members at each annual meeting. However, since the Company had a short year of operations and no annual meeting of stockholders in 2008, two classes of board members were up for re-election at this year’s meeting. Current Class I board members Lou Holtz and Edward A. Barkett, and current Class II board members Dan Quayle and Andrew D. Seidel, were re-elected to the Company’s Board of Directors for two- and three-year terms, respectively. Class III board members Richard J. Heckmann and Dr. Alfred E. Osborne will be up for re-election at the 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Heckmann Corporation stockholders also voted to approve an increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000, an Equity Incentive Plan and ratification of GHP Horwath, P.C. as the Company’s independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009.

Final results of voting will be posted on the Company’s website at http://heckmanncorp.com/meeting/.

About Heckmann Corporation

Heckmann Corporation is a holding company that was created to make investments in attractive businesses. The Company completed its first investment, the acquisition of China Water in October 2008. China Water is a leading producer and distributor of bottled water in China. Through its eight production facilities, China Water produces and distributes bottled water to fourteen provinces and regions in China. The Company markets its own products under the brands “Darcunk”, and “Grand Canyon” to distributors throughout China and supplies bottled water products to beverage and servicing companies, including local and international beverage brands such as Coca-Cola and Uni-President. It provides private label bottled water for companies such as Sands Casino, Macau.

Interested stockholders and investors can access additional information about Heckmann on the Company’s web site at www.heckmanncorp.com, and in documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov.

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