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Experience With Direct Filtration at Ontario's Lake Huron Treatment Plant
Author(s) -
Foley Paul D.
Publication year - 1980
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.1551-8833.1980.tb04488.x
Subject(s) - turbidity , filtration (mathematics) , environmental science , raw water , water quality , environmental engineering , water treatment , limit (mathematics) , hydrology (agriculture) , engineering , mathematics , ecology , geotechnical engineering , biology , statistics , mathematical analysis
Built at a time when permissible treated water turbidity was higher than the present limit, the Lake Huron direct filtration plant has since been the scene of testing and modification to improve its capacity to meet more stringent treatment objectives despite adverse raw water quality characteristics.