Water treatment footprint

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What is a typical physical footprint for a potable water treatment serving a residential community of 9000 people.

High quality source water from Great Lakes..in essence, is there a rule of thumb to guide the sizing of a potable water plant?

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  1. It will dependo on your need.

    You could need 30 to 60 m2 using just 1 or 2 of our GEOCONTAINER to treat from 15 to 70 l/s.

    Regards,

  2. Technology is changing and in a decade from now I doubt that anyone will be building massive conventional plants / all those concrete basins! Membrane filtration now available provides certainty of removal via a physical barrier, with a smaller footprint and with high quality source water, a small footprint. Drawback, filter life, but then anthracite wears down as well. Following filtration, disinfection with CT (which can be in a buried pipe) and possibly pH adjustment for corrosion control are all that is needed. Unless the regs change. Is filtration avoidance with dual disinfection processes an option, as is the case with several systems using Lake Tahoe water?

  3. Thank you all for these thoughtful answers. I will findout the current plant capacity...it is a facility we plan to replace in 8 to 10 years and are now considering alternate sites...thus the question of footprint. Thank you.

  4. Dear Peter

    for design and arrangement of equipment for potable water following items very important:

    1- liter /day uses for people :in residential community in my country uses 200-250 liter/day/person that means 75-94 cubic meter/hour  capacity needed for potable water treatment.

    2-source water analysis ,because you use surface water and design of equipment needed the result of analysis.

  5. Great lake has natural high quality water. Water supply per person is assumed as 200 l/day. Total potable water required is 1800 M3/day. Assume plant run hours will be 20 hr/day. Plant capacity will be 90 M3/hr. I will recommend treatment technology which includes on line Flocculator, Pressure sand filter followed by chlorination.  Area required will be 7.5 M2. For further details please contact on rvsveipl@gmail.com. Prof. Rajendrakumar V Saraf, Chairman Viraj Envirozing India Pvt. Ltd. Pune, India

  6. May have a solution---minimal space. What is the flow rate per day

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  7. Dear Peter,

    It will depend on the technology you will use.
    We have a container, GeoContainer MF using aprox. 30 m2 footprint, that can Micro-Filtrate 35 l/s of this water (I think enough in this case) using from 10 to 25 m H2O pressure and that does not use membranes, then does not fail as membranes do. After this MF module you just need the disinfection using the appropiate Contact Time volume.


    On the other hand can use a conventional treatment that could use 10 times more area to treat the same water.

    Regards,
     

    Orlando D. Gutiérrez Coronado