Ozone can react with bromide ion to form bromate. Currently, the USEPA has a limit of 10 micro grams per liter for ozone in drinking water. This level has been extended to other water treatment applications, for example, ground water remediation. The USEPA is considering lowering the allowable limit for bromate to 5 micro grams […]
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Martin’s Ferry Uses Ozone for Iron and Managanese Removal from Drinking Water
New upgrades to the Martin’s Ferry water treatment plant included ozone generators that remove iron and manganese before the water is sent to a distribution pump. The ozone generators were installed about one year ago. The plant has the capacity to produce five million gallons of water daily. Ozone is widely used to remove iron […]
The City of Flint Treats Drinking Water with Ozone
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Orange County Opens New Ozone Water Treatment Plant
Orange County has opened its new Southern Regional water supply facility, which can produce up to 30 million gallons of drinking water a day. The new facility pumps water from 6 wells driven deep into the lower Floridan Aquifer. The water’s cleaned with ozone and piped out to 21 thousand homes and businesses in the […]
US Rivers Require Continued Environmental Protection
American Rivers today released its annual list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers. American Rivers named the Potomac River, known as ‘the nation’s river’ as it flows through the capital, the most endangered in the country. While the Potomac is cleaner than it used to be, the river is still threatened by urban and agricultural pollution– […]
Indian City Looks to Ozone Drinking Water Treatment
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) is considering switching over to ozone water treatment from chlorination to improve water quality. Ozone is a more effective disinfectant and oxidant than chlorine and does not produce as many byproducts that have been found to be potentially damaging to human health. Ozone can also improve […]