A major upgrade to the Sebago Lake Water Treatment Facility has been started for the Portland Water District’s treatment facility in Standish at a cost of a $12.8 million. It adds two UV reactors as well as an upgraded ozone water treatment system. The Water District has been designing this system since 2002. Engineers with […]
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City of Lawrence Looks to Ozone to Solve Taste and Odor Problems with Their Drinking Water
The city of Lawrence is researching new treatment methods to deal with a taste and odor problem associated with its drinking water which recently have become a more serious issue. The city’s Utility Department said there is a solution in the works that would use “advanced oxidation” to combat taste and odor issues that are […]
Melbourne Water Supply Sees Pesticide Contamination
Pesticides have been detected upstream of a reservoir that feeds Melbourne’s drinking water supply. On eight occasions in 2010-11, the levels of pesticides, including simazine, atrazine and DEET, at Sugarloaf reservoir, north-east of Melbourne, were recorded above safe European Union drinking water standards, according to Melbourne Water data obtained by Friends of the Earth through […]
Los Angeles Expands Ozone Treatment of Drinking Water
The Los Angeles Metropolitan Board of Directors has authorized construction of $140.4 million of new ozone facilities at the district’s oldest treatment plant. The new facilities will use ozone to replace chlorine as the primary disinfectant at Metropolitan’s F.E. Weymouth Water Treatment Plant in La Verne. 20 years ago, Los Angeles identified ozone disinfection as […]
Ozone Helps Milwaukee Achieve High Drinking Water Quality
The City of Milwaukee’s drinking water gets high marks when it comes to “quality”. The Environmental Protection Agency requires every public water supplier around the country to publish its annual report. Technology has influenced the utility’s ability to get ahead of the requirement curve. More than 150 instruments continuously monitor the entire water treatment process. […]
NJ Water Upgraded to Ozone Water Treatment
A team of contractors teaming up on a project to modernize the nearly century-old Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in Short Hills. The $78 million venture has been named one of New Jersey’s Leading Infrastructure Projects by the NJ Alliance for Action, a non-profit statewide coalition of more than 2,500 business, labor, professional, academic and […]
Amsterdam Upgrades WTP
Waternet has completed an efficiency upgrade project at a large water treatment works serving Amsterdam. The Waternet facility at Vogelenzang has a daily water treatment capacity of 48 MGD, using a regime comprising pre-screening, carbon filtration, ozone injection and sand filtration. Waternet covers the entire water cycle, from the treatment of waste water and provision […]
Manchester Upgrades Drinking Water Plant with Ozone Treatment for Taste and Odor Control
The Manchester, CT water treatment plant was officially opened on Dec. 14 to mark completion of a $12.5 million improvement project. The major upgrades to the Globe Hollow Water Treatment Facility were a switch from gaseous to liquid chlorine and the installation of an ozonation system to improve the taste and odor of the water. […]
Napa Adopts Ozone Treatment of Drinking Water
Twenty-four percent of Napa residents don’t drink the city’s tap water. Most people indicated that it’s because of a chlorine smell or taste. The chlorine is in the water to make sure it stays safe to drink as it travels through pipes leading from the treatment plant to taps. In the spring, the city improved […]
Drinking Water Plants in the Atlanta Metro Area Moving Away from Chlorine Gas
Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority replaced 24 1,500-pound tanks of chlorine gas two years ago with an electrolytic bleach system at its James E. Quarles Water Trement Plant. A similar conversion is under way as part of the $103 million renovation of the authority’s other water purification facility, the Hugh A. Wyckoff Water Treatment Plant in […]