A Tucson Water employee gets ready to use modern technology to find a blockage in a buried pipe with a CCD video camera on an extended cable. The $10,000 price tag for the equipment saved the city over $60,000 on this job alone, by not having to unnecessarily bring in more equipment to dig up […]
Yesterday Tucson Water dedicated the newly completed Advanced Oxidation Process facility, which uses hydrogen peroxide and UV light to remove the contaminant 1,4-dioxane from the drinking water supply. http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/water/AOP It is a very involved process, but in a nutshell, what happens is that after going through cartridge filters, hydrogen peroxide is injected. Water then flows […]
Yesterday engineers, Tucson Water executives and Tucson dignitaries gathered to break ground for the new Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) Water Treatment Facility. It will sit adjacent to the existing Tucson Water TARP facility on west Irvington Rd, just west of I-19. The plant will cost about $15 million and be operational by the fall of 2013. Malcolm Pirnie is in charge […]
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