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Treatment Optimization—Providing More Effective Multiple‐barrier Protection
Author(s) -
Barr Pamela
Publication year - 2007
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.1551-8833.2007.tb08091.x
Subject(s) - water treatment , agency (philosophy) , filtration (mathematics) , turbidity , environmental science , environmental engineering , environmental planning , waste management , engineering , philosophy , statistics , oceanography , mathematics , epistemology , geology
This article begins by providing a brief overview of the U.S. Environmental Protection (USEPA) Agency Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water's Technical Support Center (TSC) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and its treatment optimization program for enhancing water system multiple‐barrier protection. The program started in 1989, focusing on the development of comprehensive performance evaluation (CPE) to assist filtration plants in complying with the turbidity requirements of the then recently promulgated Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR). Development of the CPE procedures showed that most water systems could easily comply with the SWTR using existing facilities while they also achieved optimized levels of performance. TSC works through four USEPA regional offices to facilitate development of area‐wide optimization programs (AWOPs) in 21 states. Treatment optimization fundamentals are discussed, along with the value of optimization.