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Experience with chloramines as primary disinfectants
Author(s) -
Shull Kenneth E.
Publication year - 1981
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.1551-8833.1981.tb04653.x
Subject(s) - chloramine , chloramination , raw water , environmental chemistry , environmental science , water contamination , pulp and paper industry , chlorine , environmental engineering , chemistry , contamination , ecology , engineering , biology , organic chemistry
For more than 50 years chloramines have been used at the Philadelphia Suburban Water Company's Pickering Creek water treatment plant. During this period chloramination has reduced the coliform count in the raw water from values as high as 100 000 organisms/mL to nearly zero in the finished water.