Monthly Archives: June 2009

Boston Improves Water and Wasterwater Treatment with Ozone

At the International Ozone Association meeting in Boston a couple of months back, Frederick Laskey, who is the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) gave one of the keynote addresses. MWRA supplies 220 MGD of drinking water … Continue reading

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EPA Seeking Approval for Emerging Contaminant Survey

As we have discussed in previous posts, certain pharmaceutical, personal care products, flame retardants and perfuorooctanoic acid have found their way into public drinking water systems. In addition, most water treatment systems are not designed to remove these contaminants. The … Continue reading

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Reduction of Wastewater Sludge with Ozone

We are always interested in new applications for ozone water treatment. In the current issue of Ozone News, researchers describe a process for using ozone to reduce excess sludge from an activated sludge process. The activated sludge process is a … Continue reading

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Ozone Makes Water Taste Better

There are many reasons why ozone is used to treat drinking water, but one of the most noticeable is that it makes water taste better. A further example of this comes from the state of Georgia. There are 1,600 public … Continue reading

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New Arizona Treatment Plant Adopts Ozone

We continue to scan news releases about new water treatment facilities employing ozone to improve water quality around the US and Canada. As we have noted in previous posts, ozone offers multiple benefits for drinking water treatment. Below is another … Continue reading

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Ozone Treatment for Urban Storm Water Runoff

Poche Beach, a county-owned spit of sand between Dana Point and San Clemente, California had a problem with water quality as a result of storm water runoff with pollutants and bacteria that flowed right into the Pacific making the water … Continue reading

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Novel UV Technology for Producing Ozone

Research in ozone generation technology continues to provide new approaches to improving the cost and effectiveness of ozone for a variety of applications. The two technologies that were discussed at the recent International Ozone Association conference pointed out the promise … Continue reading

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Spartan Environmental Technologies Introduces the SPARTOX Ozone Water Treatment System

Spartan has introduced its SPARTOX ozone water treatment system. The SPARTOX system is a completely self contain ozone water treatment system mounted on a skid which requires only a connection for the water to be treated and electrical power. The … Continue reading

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Entry for June 2, 2009

Another town is looking to add ozone for drinking water treatment to meet new EPA regulations.  Manistique, MI will add ozone water treatment as part of a two step improvement to their water treatment plant.  The funds will come from … Continue reading

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