Trying to resolve conflicts for the town Coopersville, as the expert in onsite wastewater treatment system, I would call a meeting with the community and discuss their concerns that may have never been considered. Public support for a plan might suffer if concerns are never heard. If this does not work I would consider conducting a special open meeting to involve interest members of the public. I would then developed a list of environmental problems, and determine which ones are high-risk; and pose a serious threat to health, the environment, or quality of life. There are numbers of projects to evaluate risks to people and ecosystems and to help them make the best use of their environment protection resources. If conflicts are not resolved, the town of Coopersville will suffer:…
After her tour of the facilities, she’s presented with three water-filled glass containers and challenged to assign each container to a selection of choices: tap water, traditionally treated wastewater, and purified sewage water. This test is obviously to prove the quality of the facility’s purification process because the purified sewage water is aesthetically the cleanest and purist. After this demonstration, Heffernan was immediately engaged and supportive of the San Diego AWPF’s mission and project. She also explains that because of the reoccurring droughts, many residents of California are starting to favor the idea of reusing sewage water, with the stipulation that all purified sewage water be released into reservoirs before use, a process known as indirect potable reuse. The San Diego Public Utilities Department also recommends this procedure but suggested an extra step. Known as direct potable reuse, this method would intensify the purification process and skip the reservoir, sending it straight to the tap. No one knows which technique will be implemented, but, Heffernan explains that whichever process does succeed will persuade California regulators in the…
The consequences of large factories, chemical laboratories, gas emissions and other forms of destructive pollution is observed in locations around the pollution. The resulting magnitude of the pollution effects the entire world in one way, or another. Concerns for the well-being of living organisms are instigating research to determine the significance of the water pollution. It is through research and administration of laws that humans will acknowledge the importance of reducing water pollution.…
In 1996 the city of Cleveland began a $750 million Plant Enhancement Program. The program’s goal was to renovate and modernize the city’s four water treatment facilities, which are among the 10 largest in the US, and were built in 1856; over 500 million gallons of water are pumped to Cleveland residents daily. In the following paper I attempt to provide with an overview of the Baldwin Water Work Plant Enhancement Program (PEP) (one of the four water treatment facilities) scope, time plan, costs, and objectives; describe the program’s life cycle stages required to execute all projects involved; indentify and analyze the possible associated risks, and present the respective risk responses; define the controlling and monitoring process of the program; indentify and analyze the framework items of the program’s plan that were critical to reach key achievements.…
“Tech Briefs’’ drinking water treatment fact sheets have been a regular feature in the National Drinking Water Clearinghouse (NDWC) newsletter On Tap for more than four years. NDWC Technical Assistance Specialist Mohamed Lahlou, Ph.D., researches, compiles, and writes these very popular items. A package of the Tech Briefs is now available as a product. A three ring binder holds all the current Tech Briefs in print. New selections can be easily added to the package as they become available. To order this product, call the NDWC at the numbers listed below and ask for item #DWPKPE71. The item is free.…
In Virginia, there is one of the fourth places that recycle water for drinking. On the video "How To Turn Your Toilet Water Into Tap Water" it states that "the first step of this process was to collect all of the sewer water from the region, they would treat the water three different ways before sending it out to the Occoquan reservoir." In that process, they would kill the bacteria with microorganisms while reducing phosphorus with chemicals finishing by filtrating the water using active carbon." In the video, it also states that "after they make sure that everything is up to code the treated water flows about 15 miles to the South and it goes to another plant." At the end, it's treated again like all the other reservoir water before hitting the tab. As a result of the water being purified, it was safe from people to drink but not many wanted to drink recycled water as they feel that it wasn't safe or healthy. The simple fact that the water was recycled it made them think that the water was…
My environmental engineering classes, work experience with water treatment technologies, and volunteering abroad have shown me that water quality is a diverse problem with multiple solutions. The solutions to the challenge of providing clean water vary greatly, depending on the geography, climate, local conditions, and resources available. The best technology for one area might be reverse osmosis filtration, but with high amounts of energy required to maintain high pressure and expensive installation costs, this might not be the proper solution for areas without current energy infrastructure or without enough capital to build a…
even affect human life on earth. It is said that the earth will just absorb all of the…
In the United States, there is about forty-five percent of the streams, forty-seven percent in lakes and thirty-two percent bays that have water pollution (Hearn, 2010). Not only that the another upsetting part is that forty percent of the USA’s rivers have water population they are not able to be considered decent for people to fish in. If you can fish in, it also implies that we are not able to do any swimming in the waters. Which also means there is not many living things in the water to fish or any aquatic life.…
The Kalamazoo wastewater treatment plant has been renewed since February 1955 until 2003. At the begging, it started just to provide a treatment to an average wastewater flow of 12.0 million gallons per day but nowadays it provides treatment to approximately 28 million gallons per day. Approximately half of this flow comes from significant industrial users such as large manufacturers and hospitals. The balance of the flow comes from residential customers, schools, and other industries. This paper will describe the process that the Kalamazoo Water Reclamation Plant uses to make wastewater drinkable or usable in the environment.…
Water is probably the most important resource we as people have. Humans can survive without food for several weeks, but without water we would die in less than a week. On a slightly less dramatic note, millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing, irrigating crops, and cooling industrial processes, not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water-sports centers. Despite our dependence on water, we use it as a dumping ground for all sorts of waste, and do very little to protect the water supplies we have.…
References: Pizzo, N. (2010). M. Valentine (Ed.), WSO: Water Treatment (4th ed., pp. 188-216). Denver, CO: American Water Works Association.…
Applied Research Technologies, Inc. was one of the giant technology companies in the world grown through the merger and acquisition. It consisted of nearly 60 profitable business units generating $11 billion revenue in 2006. The Filtration Unit was part of the business ART acquired from an oil and gas services company in 1996. Its core product line was in mobile water treatment that allowed oil and gas exploration companies to meet government water recycling requirements at well heads and drilling sites. Unfortunately, the Unit had faced two failures developing its mini oxidation systems. By 2006 it was losing around $6 million annually putting the credibility of the Unit on the line. The first launch of the new generation product was aimed to provide safe drinking water to developing nations. However, this attempt faced a failure because water had a detectable odor.The second generation product was aimed at a potential market of military use and NGO disaster relief activities. Though the new product fixed the odor…
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31. ^ Spellman, F.R. (2009). Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations(2 ed.). CRC Press. pp. 545. ISBN 1-4200-7530-6.…