The city of Madison, SD is seeking matching grant money to construct a new 1-million-gallon reservoir, install ozone equipment and make other improvements with a total value of 4.6 million dollars. Engineers have studied Madison’s water system in 2009 and the city’s underground reservoir in 2010 and made recommendations on improvements including addition of ozone […]
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Oklahoma City Expands with Ozone
Oklahoma City’s Lake Hefner Water Treatment Plant is in the midst of a $48.5 million expansion project. The plant will be able to pump out 100 million gallons of tap water each day after the renovation, up from the current 75 million gallons. the growth of the city and surrounding areas has significantly increased demand […]
Treatment of Land Fill Leachates with Ozone and Biological Processes
Land fill leachates are the result of water percolating through solid waste buried at the site. Land fill make provisions to capture this water for treatment. The waste can be a significant challenge to treat because of high content of organic matter, ammonia, salts and metals. Leachates vary due to a variety of factors including […]
Bay City, MI Fights Taste and Odor Problem in Drinking Water
Bay County has had a taste and odor issues with the drinking water supply. Bay City Water Treatment officials attribute the problem to higher than usual blue-green algae bloom in the Saginaw Bay. Officials said the water had a musty or dirty taste to it recently. While officials say the water has been treated and […]
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 […]
Improved Ozone System for Treating Cryptosporidium for Nevada Village
The Nevada State Board for Financing Water Projects voted Wednesday to loan the Incline Village General Improvement District $3 million for its water treatment project. Improvements include a much more efficient ozone treatment system at the Burnt Cedar Water Disinfection Plant. The new ozone system will cut the amount of oxygen used by as much […]
International Ozone Association Meeting in Toronto September 18-21
International Ozone Association meeting will be held in Toronto September 18-21. This meeting offers an informative technical program covering ozone and UV application with regard to the following subjects: disinfection and disinfection byproducts, UV validation and monitoring, advanced oxidation processes, ozone in drinking water, ozone in wastewater, and applications of ozone in food processing. Tours […]
Mississauga, Ontario Replaces Chlorine with Ozone, UF and UV
A three-year $106-million project that will replace the chlorine-treatment process with a new advanced 100 MGD plant is underway at the Lakeview Water Treatment plant in Mississauga, Ontario. The process will use a combination of ozonation, ultrafiltration (UF) and ultraviolet (UV) technology. Kenaidan Contracting is the general contractor and CH2M Hill is the consultant on […]
Ashland MA Refurbishes Plant for Improved Performance of Ozone System
Ashland and Hopkinton, MA are towns of about 16,000 and 14,000 residents, respectively. They are situated midway between Boston and Worcester in eastern Massachusetts. The Howe Street facility uses clarification, carbon filtration, and ozonation to treat groundwater. Ashland experiences seasonal increases in manganese in its ground water supply. In Ashland’s water, the manganese is organically […]
Danvers/Middleton Drinking Water Plant to Adopt Ozone Water Treatment
But by 2015, regulations that govern trihalomethanes (THMs,) when chlorine is used to disinfect drinking water, are forcing the Danvers/Middleton drinking water plant to spend $21 million to redesign the treatment process. Once the work begins, it will take about two years to complete the expansion and renovations of the plant The new treatment process, […]