Veolia Water to supply water treatment solution to Romarco Minerals

Veolia Water has won a contract from Romarco Minerals for a water treatment plant at the Haile Gold Mine located in Kershaw, South Carolina, US.

The company will design the 1,200 gallon per minute (GPM) DenseSludge water treatment plant, and also supply equipment and provide construction oversight.

Veolia Water stated that the high density sludge water treatment solution will help to meet all National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements.

The system is a two stage water treatment process. Veolia said that its DenseSludge process was selected for stage one, which will use a MULTIFLO high-rate package clarifier to create a crystalline sludge.

By implementing the DenseSludge process, the normal sludge volume created will be reduced by a factor of five to ten. This creates a sludge that is easier to dewater, which is important in the high solids water at the Haile mine site.

Stage two will use an inclined plate clarifier and five multi-media filters to polish the effluent clarified water.

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Image: Veolia to provide water treatment solution at Haile gold mine. Photo: courtesy of Veolia Water.