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 […]
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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 […]
Madison, SD Plans to Add Ozone to Remove PCE and TCE
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Springfield, MO to Replace Chlorine with Ozone at Water Plant
City Utilities of Springfield, Mo plans on capital improvements for their drinking water infrastructure. The water division plans to build a new million-gallon water tower in southeast Springfield to boost water pressure in that part of the city. In addition, it’s also moving ahead with a $7.2 million project to switch its water treatment facilities […]
Study Says Ozone Technology Sales to Exceed $800 Million by 2015
A BCC Research technology market research report indicates that total worldwide sales revenues for ozone technology were $469 million in 2007, and are expected to increase to more than $800 Million in 2015, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.1%. The largest ozone technology segments in 2009 were water/wastewater applications. These will increase from […]