At the International Ozone Association meeting in Boston a couple of months back, Frederick Laskey, who is the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) gave one of the keynote addresses. MWRA supplies 220 MGD of drinking water and treats 350 MGD of wastewater. Boston once had, or at least what was called, […]
Month: June 2009
Ozone Makes Water Taste Better
There are many reasons why ozone is used to treat drinking water, but one of the most noticeable is that it makes water taste better. A further example of this comes from the state of Georgia. There are 1,600 public water systems in Georgia and 100 of those systems competed for the title of best […]
New Arizona Treatment Plant Adopts Ozone
We continue to scan news releases about new water treatment facilities employing ozone to improve water quality around the US and Canada. As we have noted in previous posts, ozone offers multiple benefits for drinking water treatment. Below is another example of a large water system switching to ozone water treatment. Gilbert and Chandler Arizona […]
Ozone Treatment for Urban Storm Water Runoff
Poche Beach, a county-owned spit of sand between Dana Point and San Clemente, California had a problem with water quality as a result of storm water runoff with pollutants and bacteria that flowed right into the Pacific making the water unsafe for bathers. Recently, officials in the area dedicated a $3 MM treatment facility using […]
Novel UV Technology for Producing Ozone
Research in ozone generation technology continues to provide new approaches to improving the cost and effectiveness of ozone for a variety of applications. The two technologies that were discussed at the recent International Ozone Association conference pointed out the promise of these new approaches. One approach involved electrochemical formation of ozone using artificial diamond electrodes […]
Spartan Environmental Technologies Introduces the SPARTOX Ozone Water Treatment System
Spartan has introduced its SPARTOX ozone water treatment system. The SPARTOX system is a completely self contain ozone water treatment system mounted on a skid which requires only a connection for the water to be treated and electrical power. The on board systems include a compressor/oxygen concentrator, ozone generator and ozone water mixing system with […]
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Entry for June 2, 2009
Another town is looking to add ozone for drinking water treatment to meet new EPA regulations. Manistique, MI will add ozone water treatment as part of a two step improvement to their water treatment plant. The funds will come from the US Department of Agricultures Rural Development (RD) fund. The RD funding is 75% grant […]