The city Flint’s Drinking Water Treatment Plant is rated to treat 36 million gallons of water a day. The city of Flint’s average daily usage is about 11 million gallons a day. The plant was built in 1956. The old plant, which was built in 1917, is still standing on site. The plant has received […]
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Salt Lake City Uses Ozone to Improve Water Quality
Salt lake City uses ozone at two of its facilities: Little Cottonwood (LCW) and Point of the Mountain (POM). LCW has Utah’s first and largest ozone drinking water treatment system, two ozone generators each sized at 3,750 lb/day of ozone. The facility can treat 143 MGD of water. The plant can dose ozone at 3.5 […]
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 […]
Norman, OK Studies Ozone Water Treatment
Norman water treatment plant improvements enter Phase II: The city council, acting as the Norman Utilities Authority, will consider approving a $1.5 million contract with Carollo Engineers for Phase II improvements at the water treatment plant located in northeast Norman. The improvements follow studies conducted in 2006 and 2007. Carollo performed a chlorine pilot study, […]
MBR Ozone System for Water Reuse in Seafood Processing
Pescados Industrializados of Mazatlan, Mexico, a tuna cannery, has installed a new MBR system with down stream ozone treatment. The primary purpose of the MBR is to treat wastewater from the plant to comply with effluent regulations of the Mexican government. 30% of the effluent is further polished using ozone, AC, RO for reuse in […]
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 […]
York, UK to Add Ozone Drinking Water Treatment
A complete ozone drinking water system will be part of a new £16 million treatment works being built in York, UK. The Acomb Landing project will provide water to the residents of York from early 2013 and replaces the aging current water treatment works which have provided drinking water to residents of York since 1846. […]
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 […]