The Buckman diversion project, a $216 MM to take water from the Rio Grande for the Santa Fe region, is about one year old. It was designed and is being built by CH2M Hill, a global leader in full-service engineering, consulting, construction, and operations.
The project, expected to be completed in early 2011, uses a number of treatment techniques to prepare the water for use. One of the treatment technologies employed is ozone water treatment. Other processes used include settling, granular activated carbon, centrifuges as well as chemical treatment with flocculation.
As we do regularly on this blog, we like to point out the increasing use of ozone to treat water around the US. It demonstrates that ozone is now a main stream technology for the treatment of water for public use, although many people are not aware of it extensive use.