The Coquitlam watershed treatment facility in British Columbia provides approximately 370 MLD, a third of the total water supply delivered in Metro Vancouver. The facility uses the process of ozonation as the primary disinfectant, but has added new UV disinfection equipment to complement the existing ozone and chlorination processes. Construction of the new facility started […]
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Boulder Installs UV Wastewater Disinfection
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 […]