Kruger supplies treatment system for water purification plant in Colorado, US

Kruger, a 100% subsidiary for France-based Veolia Water Technologies, has turned its water treatment process Opaline operational at the Rueter-Hess water purification facility in Colorado, US.

Installation of the water treatment technology was a part of the drinking water treatment expansion efforts for the Parker Water and Sanitation District (PWSD).

The purification plant has been designed to clean drinking water for PWSD residents and is expected to have a capacity for ten million gallons of water per day (10MGD).

The facility is equipped with ACTIFLO Turbo and ACTIFLO CARB technologies and Kruger Ceramic Membranes (KCM) and is expected to meet state and federal drinking water standards.

While the ACTIFLO Turbo is used at the Rueter-Hess plant for enhanced coagulation, ACTIFLO CARB facilitates enhanced organics removal with the use of powdered activated carbon (PAC).

The purification facility uses the Kruger ceramic microfiltration membranes (KCM) for filtration purposes and sodium hypochlorite for disinfection.

Water treated at the facility is sourced from PWSD’s Rueter-Hess Reservoir, which needs to be purified for turbidity, microorganisms, algae, iron, manganese and high dissolved organic carbon (DOC), among others.

Technology installed at the facility has been designed to keep DOC content in the water to a minimum since it can combine with chlorine or its compounds to form disinfection byproducts (DBPs).

DBPs are found to cause long-term health concerns and are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency in the US.

Kruger Opaline process has been claimed to minimise DBPs during water treatment procedure.

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Image: The Rueter-Hess water purification plant has the capacity to treat ten million gallons of water per day. Photo: courtesy of Veolia.