Water treatment plant operators have a challenging job under normal circumstances. They must optimize treatment strategies for varying water demand and cope with unpredictable (but inevitable) emergencies such as infrastructure repairs and emergency response. Now, large-scale weather patterns such as drought and El Niño are making a tough job even more challenging.
Topics: drinking water quality
The AWWA Distribution System Water Quality Committee is embarking on revisions to their M56: Fundamentals and Control of Nitrification in Chloraminated Drinking Water Distribution Systems. The M56 manual is a complete guide to managing nitrification and is intended to be a principal technical resource for water system operators throughout the US.
Topics: active mixing, nitrification, eliminate nitrification, biofilms
The AWWA held a webinar on October 6, 2010 entitled Sustainable Water Quality Management within the Storage Tank: Part 2 (you can listen to a rebroadcast here).
Topics: active mixing, storage tanks, WaterMix, biofilms, mixing systems
We learned this week that an engineer (who shall remain unnamed) presented a paper at the DSS meeting in Maryland about water age modeling in which he claimed that mixing CANNOT decrease water age.
Topics: active mixing, disinfectant residual, storage tanks, high water age, mixing systems
The EPA recently announced a new strategy to provide clean, safe drinking water and a novel means by which those of us in the water industry, and citizens in general, can comment on it: an on-line discussion forum.
Topics: Water Quality, storage tanks, mixing systems, dbp formation
Topics: Water Quality, disinfectant residual, flushing tanks
Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees across much of the Eastern seaboard this week and municipalities large and small will be contending with managing their water quality.
Topics: active mixing, eliminate stratification, water circulation, high water age
Topics: eliminate stratification, mixing systems
