A Canadian village quickly upgraded its water treatment plant to meet new environmental health regulations and treat for high seasonal turbidity.
Given new Interior Health Authority regulations, surface water treatment plants that experience turbidity events above 1 NTU are required to implement a more robust filtration treatment process to remain compliant. The Village of Clinton, in partnership with TRUE Consulting Ltd., began evaluating a variety of technologies and filtration systems capable of treating pathogens, such as cryptosporidium and giardia . To minimize the overall treatment costs, both from an initial capital and an overall lifecycle basis, Clinton needed a treatment solution that enabled them to meet their ultimate treatment requirements from the outset without the need for subsequent upgrades.
While searching for a solution, the Village of Clinton considered both conventional treatment and membrane treatment methods. Aria FIT membrane system from Aria Filtra® was selected because it enabled the plant to meet the Interior Health Authority’s “4-3-2-1-0” Guideline for drinking water treatment and the consistency of treatment.
Within five months, Aria Filtra deployed the Aria FIT ahead of the upcoming spring freshet. The treatment system enabled the plant to treat the year’s harshest water quality caused by melting snow and thawing forest matter that enters the village feedwater from a local creek. In previous years, the Village of Clinton was required to issue boil water alerts and advisories during this time. In addition, the new system utilized a direct feed coagulation process to remove contaminants from the source water while also providing a physical barrier for pathogen reduction.
Case Study: Meeting Environmental Health Regulations While Racing Against the Spring Freshet
“In the two years that Aria FIT filtration system from Aria Filtra has been running, we have not had a single instance where we were unable to meet treatment levels. The quality of the water is great, but most importantly, this system has provided peace of mind that we can check in on the plant in the morning then set the system alarms and leave it alone for the rest of the day as we fulfill our other responsibilities. The low operational demands have been crucial for us as a Public Works department of three.” - Karl Hansen, public works foreman, Village of Clinton
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