North Central Texas is a center for ozone drinking water treatment applications because the local reservoirs have taste and odor issues during the summer months. Ozone not only effectively treats these problems but also provides disinfection credits for a wide variety of pathogens.
Fort Worth has recently begun construction of a 12 MGD facility at their Westside WTP site. The $47 MM project is being constructed by McCarthy Building Companies of Texas. The project will provide drinking water for western Fort Worth and is expanded to handle the future demand for water from that area of the region.
The plant will treat raw water from the Tarrant Regional Water Board raw water main that connects Eagle Mountain Lake with the East Texas water supply in Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers reservoirs. The facilities include an ozone contact basin, flocculation and sedimentation basins, as well as filters and a membrane facility. The new water treatment plant will have an operations building, wash water recovery basins, a recycle pump station, a 2.5-million-gallon ground storage tank, a high-service pump station, an ozone generator building, an electrical building and related site and civil work.
This facility continues the tradition of expanding ozone use in the region. As will be noted from recent posts, ozone use continues to grow as more advanced drinking water treatment systems are deployed around the US.