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Filtering Tacoma Water's Green River Supply
Author(s) -
Moline Jason,
McMeen Chris
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.5991/opf.2016.42.0020
Subject(s) - water supply , filtration (mathematics) , environmental science , water quality , cryptosporidium , surface water , water treatment , water resource management , environmental engineering , geology , mathematics , ecology , paleontology , statistics , biology , feces
Because of a Long‐Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule requirement to install a Cryptosporidium barrier on its 100‐year‐old, unfiltered regional supply, Tacoma Water (Wash.) opted to solve multiple water quality and supply risks by constructing a 90‐mgd conventional/168‐mgd direct filtration facility.