Water Treatment Facilities - Grand Canyon Water Reclamation Plant, Antwerp Water Works, South East Water, Lawrence Experiment Station (Paperback)

Chapters: Grand Canyon Water Reclamation Plant, Antwerp Water Works, South East Water, Lawrence Experiment Station, Peoria Waterworks, Jardine Water Purification Plant, Mythe Water Treatment Works. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Grand Canyon Water Reclamation Plant - body{behavior: url("/w/skins-1.5/vector/csshover.htc")} Grand Canyon Water Reclamation Plant The Grand Canyon Water Reclamation Plant in Grand Canyon National Park is one of the first water reclamation plants in the United States, pioneering operating principles that are in use in modern facilities. The South Rim of Grand Canyon, where most of the tourist developments have traditionally been, possesses little water. To help augment the available supply of fresh water, the Santa Fe Railroad, the principal concessioner of the park, developed a plant to reclaim wastewater. This reclaimed water was to return by its own pipeline to the hotel area where it would be used to water grass and plants, to flush toilets in the El Tovar Hotel, and for train steam engines. The plant was built and put into operation in May 1926 supplying reclaimed water at nearly one-sixth the cost of obtaining fresh water. Although tests have proved the reclaimed water to be potable, it has never been used for drinking purposes. This plant is composed of a number of related structures, and its appearance is essentially the way is has been over the years. The plant consists of the bar-screen boxes, a pre-sedimentation tank, three aeration tanks (two of 24,000 gallons, and one of 50,000 gallons), two clarifiers, a secondary tank, two filters, a storage tank (nearly 300,000 gallons capacity), a holding tank, and a water tank that is used to back-wash the filters. A frame structure with a corrugated tin exterior ho...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=204038