How One Engineer Transformed Five Shipping Containers Into a Water Treatment Plant

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How One Engineer Transformed Five Shipping Containers Into a Water Treatment Plant

"Building a water treatment plant for one of Australia’s most remote communities poses a unique set of challenges. But this innovative engineer thought inside the box", writes Michelle Wheeler for Create magazine. 

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Eric Vanweydeveld at the Borroloola water treatment plant. (Photo: Eric Vanweydeveld, Source: Create)

 

Borroloola, a small remote town on the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory, was in need of a new water treatment plant. For a while, the town relied on groundwater as the main water resource, which led to drinking water being contaminated with heavy metals. 

Eric Vanweydeveld , a senior project manager at Power and Water Corporation, was called in to create a solution which he found in a containerized system consisting of five customized shipping containers and one portable concrete building.

 

"These housed a water treatment process train to reduce the level of corrosiveness of the water through pH correction. Treatment processes included CO2 removal, remineralisation, chlorine gas dosing and backwash waste management", says the article. 

Find details about  Vanweydeveld's project on Create.

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