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 […]
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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 […]
Cottonwood, Az Plans to Reclaim Wastewater for Drinking Water Using Advanced Oxidation
Cottonwood, AZ is planning on using reclaimed wastewater as a drinking water source sometime in the next15 or 20 years. The city plans to build an $8 million, wastewater treatment plant capable of removing many trace synthetic compounds via advanced oxidation using ozone and hydrogen peroxide. The focus is on pharmaceuticals which have recently become […]
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 […]
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 […]
US EPA Warns Against the Use of Ozone for Odor Removal in Homes
Spartan Environmental Technologies, LLC periodically receives calls from home owners and commercial facilities that want to use ozone to control odor where people live and work. Spartan does not sell such ozone generators and recommends that they should not used based on advice from the US EPA. Below is an excerpt of an article on […]