Boulder’s wastewater treatment plant started up a new $3 million UV disinfection system purify the city’s wastewater. Flows are 12.5 million gallons per day of wastewater. Costs are comparable to the previously used chlorine gas/sulfur dioxide chemicals previously employed, however the safety and environmental aspects of UV are dramtically better than the chemicals. The UV […]
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Poughkeepsie Looks to Upgrade to Ozone Biofiltration Process
Poughkeepsies’ Water Treatment Facility selected a system that uses ozone and biologically activated carbon to upgrade the facility at a cost of $18 million. the new process will reduce the organic material that serves as a precursor for potentially dangerous disinfection byproducts. One of these byproducts, trihalomethanes, has been found at high levels in the […]
Recommended Ozone Water Treatment Book
The book, “Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment – From Basics Principles to Application” was recommended by Professor Martin Jekel fo the Technical University of Berlin in the industry journal Ozone News published by the International Ozone Association. Ozone has a long history in the field of water treatment covering over a century […]
Jamaica Considers Water Reclamation
Whenever there is a drought, Jamaican households go without water and crops yields are affected. There is also an increase in water-borne illnesses such as gastroenteritis. One method for overcoming the problems associated with occasions of drought in Jamaica is reclaiming water. Reclamation of water is the treatment or processing of wastewater to make it […]
Milwaukee High Quality Water Starts with Ozone
The Milwaukee Water Works is a national leader in providing safe, high-quality drinking water. The finished water is distributed to an estimated 830,000 residents of Milwaukee and 15 other communities in the metropolitan area meets or exceeds all federal and state drinking water standards. Each year, the Water Works annually tests Lake Michigan water and […]
Valdosta Water Plant with Ozone Primary Disinfection wins State Award
The City of Valdosta Water Treatment Plant has been recognized as the 2013 Water Treatment Plant of the Year by the Georgia Association of Water Professionals (GAWP). The plant was recently evaluated by GAWP inspectors on its well field operations, chemical processes and documentation, and scored 90% or better in all areas. The water treatment […]
Arcadis Ozone Water Treatment Plant Wins Award
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awarded their Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award (OCEA) to ARCADIS US its Alvarado Water Treatment Plant Ozone Upgrade and Expansion Project in San Diego. The project increased capacity at the 62-year-old plant by nearly 70 percent and improved the disinfection process providing safer, better tasting water to San […]
Alternative Disinfectants such as Ozone Taking Share from Chlorine
World demand for water disinfection products is projected to increase 5.5 percent per year to $7.7 billion in 2016. There is continued concern about disinfection byproducts (DBPs), outbreaks of waterborne illness continue to occur even in developed countries as pathogens such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia lamblia are resistant to chlorine, heightened security and anti-terrorism measures […]
Colorado Springs to us Ozone Biofiltration to treat Raw Water from the Pueblo Reservoir
The Southern Delivery System (SDS) has broken ground on a $125 million facility to treat the “raw” water that will be pumped from the Pueblo Reservoir to Colorado Springs. The SDS water treatment plant, which is being built on 124 acres east of Marksheffel Road between U.S. 24 and Colorado Highway 94, will consist of […]
Berwick Relies on Ozone to Remove Odor from their Wastewater Treatment Plant
Discharges from Eden Valley were causing odor problems with the Berwick wastewater treatment plant. Effluent from the Eden Valley overwhelmed the sewer treatment system, causing bad odors throughout the northeast quadrant of berwick. Upgrades were made to the system to ensure there would be no repeat of the problem. When Eden Valley purchased the former […]