A panel was gathered at Northern Arizona University DuBois Center to answer questionsabout wastewater treatment techniques and the safety of using or drinking reclaimed water. Flagstaff plans to sell reclaimed water to an Arizona sledding facility for snow making. The panel included Shane Snyder of the U of Arizona, Chuck Graf of the Arizona DEQ […]
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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 […]
Seattle Super Green Building Looks At Ozone Water Treatment
By late next year, Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood will be home to a new six-story office building that strives to be the greenest commercial building in the world. The new structure will hold the offices of the environmentally-focused Bullitt Foundation. The Bullitt Center was designed to meet the requirements of the Living Building Challenge, and […]
New Standards to Impact the Use of Hypochlorite for Drinking Water
Changes to NSF/ANSI Standard 60 may impact the use of sodium hypochlorite in drinking water systems. New rules are being considered for the contaminates bromate, perchlorate and chlorate, all of which can be traced to sodium hypochlorite. US drinking water systems are concerned about disinfection products that might contaminate the water either from contaminants that […]
Marines to Recycle Wastewater in San Diego for Landscape Irrigation
The Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San diego is pioneering a type of on-site wastewater recycling system. It will divert 10,000 gallons of sewage at the base each day, treat it to state standards and pump it through irrigation lines to the roots of landscape plants. If all works according to plan, passers-by won’t notice […]
Monteray Bay Aquarium Uses Ozone and UV to Treat Water Returned to Bay
Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of the largest wastewater dischargers of water into the protected Pacific Grove area of the bay. The State Water Resources Control Board exempted the aquarium from a state ban on dumping wastewater into a marine protected zone. The aquarium continuously takes in about 1,400 gallons of seawater a minute and […]
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 […]
Lake Oswego to Add Ozone For Taste and Odor Control
Recently the city of Lake Oswego’s water-treatment plant began treating drinking water for taste and odor problems after customers complained about earthy and musty-tasting water flowing from their taps. City officials said the odors and tastes are not dangerous, explaining that a harmless algae bloom in the Clackamas River is responsible. Algal blooms periodically create […]
Ozone Helps Treat Mine Water Run Off
Water from a clay mine near Dean, PA is flowing into Clearfield Creek. The mine, which closed 60 years ago, has polluted about 15 miles of the creek. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is exploring various ways to clean up the creek. They are evaluating a water cleanup process that uses ozone to remove […]
Napa Adds Ozone to Water Treatment Plant
The city of Napa dedicated a drinking water treatment plant that received more than $40 million worth of improvements and expansion over the past three years. With the improvements, the plant can now treat enough water daily to meet the city’s needs into the early months of the summer and, has increased the treatment capabilities […]