The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) recognized United Water New Jersey’s Haworth Water Treatment Plant Upgrade with a National Design-Build Excellence Award in the water/wastewater over $25 million category. United Water constructed a $100 million upgrade to the company’s 200-million-gallon-per-day (mgd) facility, which serves 800,000 people in northern New Jersey. The project included innovative high-rate […]
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Sanata Barbara to Add Ozone Water Treatment
The City of Santa Barbara is getting a $29 million loan to install an ozone water treatment system at the Cater Water Treatment Plant to comply with federal drinking water standards. Because the cities of Montecito and Carpinteria water customers will also benefit from this process, their water agencies will be responsible for approximately 40 […]
Louisville Looking to Add Ozone Water Treatment
Riverbank Filtration is an advanced treatment for drinking water. Currently, Louisville Water is renovating its Crescent Hill Filtration Plant to exceed new drinking water regulations that take effect in 2012. As the science of drinking water advances, Louisville Water will look to add ozone as an advanced water treatment technology at its Crescent Hill Plant […]
City of Moorhead Treats Water with Ozone
The city of Moorhead uses ozone as the primary disinfectant and treatment agent for its municipal water supply. The plant opened in 1994, and the ozone process kicked in the following year. Plant workers add ozone to the water after it has undergone softening to extract minerals. The water is then filtered before being piped […]
Bossier City Adds Ozone for Disinfection and Taste and Odor Control
Bossier City is involved in a $72 million project to double the capacity of their water treatment plant. In addition to construction of a new facility, the project will include a rehabilitation of the existing water treatment plant, which is expected to be completed in 2013. The expansion of the water plant will increase capacity […]
Melbourne Wastewater Plant to Use Ozone
A long-planned upgrade at Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant includes an ozone system with installation beginning in November 2010. with peak flows of around 185 MGD of treated water production, the upgrade to advanced tertiary treatment at Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant will make it among the largest of its kind in the world. After […]
Santa Barbara to Add Ozone Water Treatment
The City of Santa Barbara is getting a $29 million loan to install an ozone water purifier at the Cater Water Treatment Plant as part of a longstanding effort to comply with increasingly stringent federal standards. Ozone water treatment is designed to remove potential carcinogens in the water created when sunlight interacts with leaves, twigs, […]
Ozone Helps Manchester Capture Best Taste Award
Manchester Water Works’ drinking water won “New England’s Best” in a recent taste-testing competition. A panel of independent, international judges sampled drinking water from utilities throughout New England during the recent annual conference of the New England Water Works Association. The field of contestants were utilities that had no violations of state or federal safe […]
Ozone to Treat Contaminated Chinese Lake
A contaminated Chinese lake is to serve as a test bed for a new environmental cleanup technology involving ozone bubbles. The lake of Taihu, next to the 4.5 million-strong city of Wuxi, has been contaminated by a variety of pollutants for years from the industrial businesses in Wuxi. It will use a system known as […]
Ozone Measurement in Iron and Manganese Removal
Iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) are often found in groundwater. High levels can create aesthetic issues with drinking water including taste and odor problems as well as staining of water fixtures. A common method of removing these contaminants is to oxidize them and then remove the precipitates via filtration. Ozone is one of the oxidants […]