The Acomb Landing water treatment plant with an output capacity of 35ML/day drinking water processes raw water from the River Ouse as part of Yorkshire Water. The principal contractor, AECOM, is working to update the plant to remove micro pollutatns, primarily pesticides. They have decided to use ozone water treatment combined with activated carbon to […]
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Melbourne Water Supply Sees Pesticide Contamination
Pesticides have been detected upstream of a reservoir that feeds Melbourne’s drinking water supply. On eight occasions in 2010-11, the levels of pesticides, including simazine, atrazine and DEET, at Sugarloaf reservoir, north-east of Melbourne, were recorded above safe European Union drinking water standards, according to Melbourne Water data obtained by Friends of the Earth through […]