New federal drinking water standards could require the Poughkeepsie water plant to make $16 million in upgrades. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is requiring municipal water plants to do more to restrict disinfectant byproducts (DBP) in drinking water that could pose health hazards. Poughkeepsies’ Water Treatment Facility is looking at injecting ozone into the drinking […]
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Ozone for Disinfection By Products Control in Drinking Water
Disinfection of drinking water often involves a trade off between inactivating pathogens and creating undesirable disinfection by products in water. Because chlorination is still the most widely used method of disinfection, problems with the formation of chlorinated byproducts due to the interaction of chlorine with organic compounds found in water is a major issue. Two […]
Danvers/Middleton Drinking Water Plant to Adopt Ozone Water Treatment
But by 2015, regulations that govern trihalomethanes (THMs,) when chlorine is used to disinfect drinking water, are forcing the Danvers/Middleton drinking water plant to spend $21 million to redesign the treatment process. Once the work begins, it will take about two years to complete the expansion and renovations of the plant The new treatment process, […]
Columbus, OH to Adopt Ozone for Drinking Water Treatment
The City of Columbus’ Hap Cremean drinking water treatment plant will be converted to the use of ozone and biologically active filtration (BAF) by 2013. The change is driven by the EPA Stage 2 Disinfection Byproducts rule that takes effect in 2012. The Hap Cremean plant has a capacity of 100 MGD. A variety of […]