Tour of Great Falls Water Treatment Plant Highlights the New UV Disinfection System
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
The City of Great Falls Water Treatment Plant treats water from the Missouri River on a day-to-day basis. The water is taken out of the river to a screening process, chemicals are then added to disinfect and take dirt out of the water and it then goes through a filtration process. Recently, the plant has been facing a variety of issues.
One of these issues being that cryptosporidium was found in the water from the Missouri River. Cryptosporidium is a parasite with a shell that chlorine will not penetrate through. They are unsure of where exactly the cryptosporidium came from. To meet requirements, the plant worked together with the state to come up with a way to get rid of this problem.
It came to the conclusion that the most cost-effective way to get the cryptosporidium out of the water was to install at UV system, which penetrates the shell of cryptosporidium and kills the virus. The UV system construction addition project cost approximately 25 million dollars and will now pave the way for other communities in Montana to design and implement large-scale UV disinfection technology.
Source: 3KRTV
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