The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) began using ozone as the primary disinfectant at its Wylie Water Treatment Plants in 2014. As a result of the $123 million ozone project, a significant improvement in the taste and odor of the drinking water produced is expected. The NTMWD selected ozone in the treatment process because […]
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Ozone Effective for Hydrogen Sulfide and Color Removal from Texas Well Water
The Four Way Special Utility District (SUD) operates multiple potable water plants, including Water Plant Number 3 in Eastern Angelina County, Texas. Plant Number 3 was having problems with Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) and color due to the presence of tannic acids in the source water. The current process, aeration/chlorination was not successfully treating the problem, […]
Barriers to Water Reuse for Drinking Water in the US
It has been demonstrated that existing technologies for advanced water treatment can successfully upgrade wastewater to drinking water quality in large scale. There are installation for water reuse/water reclaim in California that are treating municipal wastewater to drinking water quality in volumes over 70 MGD. These technologies employed include membrane filtration, RO, UV and ozone. […]
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 […]
Winnipeg to Start Up Water Plant with Ozone
Several months ago we mentioned that Winnipeg was building a water treatment plant that would use ozone to treat their water. Now the start up of that plant is only days away, turning on the taps at a $300-million water-treatment facility. In the new plant ozone will break down organic chemicals into smaller, more easily […]