The city of Napa dedicated a drinking water treatment plant that received more than $40 million worth of improvements and expansion over the past three years. With the improvements, the plant can now treat enough water daily to meet the city’s needs into the early months of the summer and, has increased the treatment capabilities […]
Madison, SD Plans to Add Ozone to Remove PCE and TCE
The city of Madison, SD is seeking matching grant money to construct a new 1-million-gallon reservoir, install ozone equipment and make other improvements with a total value of 4.6 million dollars. Engineers have studied Madison’s water system in 2009 and the city’s underground reservoir in 2010 and made recommendations on improvements including addition of ozone […]
Oklahoma City Expands with Ozone
Oklahoma City’s Lake Hefner Water Treatment Plant is in the midst of a $48.5 million expansion project. The plant will be able to pump out 100 million gallons of tap water each day after the renovation, up from the current 75 million gallons. the growth of the city and surrounding areas has significantly increased demand […]
US EPA Warns Against the Use of Ozone for Odor Removal in Homes
Spartan Environmental Technologies, LLC periodically receives calls from home owners and commercial facilities that want to use ozone to control odor where people live and work. Spartan does not sell such ozone generators and recommends that they should not used based on advice from the US EPA. Below is an excerpt of an article on […]
Advanced Oxidation Treats Contaminated Ground Water Near Tucson
For 25 years, TCE-polluted groundwater has been pumped for treatment from an old Air Force Plant near Tucson where chemicals were dumped by weapons-systems manufacturers from the 1940s until the 1970s. Discovered in 1981, the groundwater contamination remains at very high levels in areas of the 1,300-acre site. Some monitoring wells still show pollution at […]
Treatment of Land Fill Leachates with Ozone and Biological Processes
Land fill leachates are the result of water percolating through solid waste buried at the site. Land fill make provisions to capture this water for treatment. The waste can be a significant challenge to treat because of high content of organic matter, ammonia, salts and metals. Leachates vary due to a variety of factors including […]
Bay City, MI Fights Taste and Odor Problem in Drinking Water
Bay County has had a taste and odor issues with the drinking water supply. Bay City Water Treatment officials attribute the problem to higher than usual blue-green algae bloom in the Saginaw Bay. Officials said the water had a musty or dirty taste to it recently. While officials say the water has been treated and […]
Bossier City Uses Ozone for Taste/Odor Control and Disifection
Public Utilities for Bossier City, LA uses ozone to improve water quality for its customers. Water is pumped from the Red River to a reservoir and from the reservoir to a water treatment plant where it undergoes treatment. During the treatment process, ozone is added to the water twice in order to eliminate any unpleasant […]
Japan Ozone Association Meeting Holds 20th Annual Conference
Ozone News reported that the Japan Ozone Association held their 20th annual conference in Chiba, Japan in late June of this year. Forty two papers and 9 poster presentations were made. 160 people attended the meeting including engineers, researchers and managers from water treatment utilities and many other companies in the ozone industry as well […]
Improved Ozone System for Treating Cryptosporidium for Nevada Village
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 […]