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Use of Distilled Sea Water at San Diego
Author(s) -
Dodson Roy E.,
Mulford Stewart F.
Publication year - 1965
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.1551-8833.1965.tb01499.x
Subject(s) - environmental science , distillation , process (computing) , sewage treatment , waste management , environmental engineering , engineering , computer science , chemistry , organic chemistry , operating system
In 1958, Congress passed the appropriation of $10,000,000 to build five distillation plants, each using a different process. These installations were designated as demonstration plants and were intended for the purposes of: demonstrating the practicability of conversion processes; developing information on how to utilize the processes effectively; and, providing a firm basis for developing and estimating costs for large plants that could be used for municipal water supply. One of the plants built under the provisions of this act was located in San Diego, California, and was designated as Sea Water Conversion Demonstration Plant No. 2, or the Point Loma plant, and had 1 mgd of capacity and employed the multistage flash distillation process. The article discusses this process, along with distribution problems, effects of the site, city operation of the plant, analytic findings, consumer reactions, and sewage treatment.