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Improved Operation of Four Treatment Plants at Detroit
Author(s) -
Shan Albert M.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1961.tb00804.x
Subject(s) - mains electricity , water supply , filtration (mathematics) , environmental science , environmental engineering , population , filter (signal processing) , acre , geography , hydrology (agriculture) , engineering , agricultural science , mathematics , electrical engineering , voltage , statistics , demography , geotechnical engineering , sociology
Detroit is midway into a planned expansion program. Financing is available. As the water requirements of the area increase, additional filtration plants and pumping stations or segments of plants and transmission mains can be added in a comparatively short time, thereby creating a water system capable of meeting any load requirement. The Detroit department of water supply operates three large filtration plants and pumping stations and will operate a fourth one, when it is completed, in the downriver suburban area. Water Works Park with 80 filters is located on the Detroit River; Springwells with 108 filters, at the western city limits; and Northeast with 48 filters, at the northeastern city limits. Each filter is 0.025 acre in area. These plants supply water to approximately 3,200,000 people in Detroit and 50 suburban communities, about 41 per cent of the population of Michigan. Contract negotiations have been or are being concluded with several other suburbs.