The Nevada State Board for Financing Water Projects voted Wednesday to loan the Incline Village General Improvement District $3 million for its water treatment project. Improvements include a much more efficient ozone treatment system at the Burnt Cedar Water Disinfection Plant. The new ozone system will cut the amount of oxygen used by as much as half, use nearly 20 percent less power and generate double the amount of ozone for treatment.
The new treatment equipment is designed to cryptosporidium, a germ that causes severe diarrhea and can survive even in chlorinated water.
The total cost of the project is $5,978,000. The project doesn’t increase capacity of the system, which processes 6,000 gallons of water a minute and has 6.6 million gallons of storage. The system serves about 9,300 people through some 3,700 residential and 416 commercial connections. Construction will be completed by March 2013.