Congressman Visits Arsenic Removal Plant

by Rick Mann
Tonka Equipment Company

Congressman Fred Upton visited the new Iron and Arsenic Removal system serving the community of Mattawan, Michigan. Before the new system was installed, arsenic levels in the town’s three wells exceeded EPA’s requirements of 10 parts per billion (ppb).

Looking into all their options, they determined investing in a new treatment system was their only option. The arsenic was removed with iron co-precipitation absorption followed by filtration with Greensand Plus Media. Equipment  installation included four vertical pressure filters (VPF) to treat both the well on 25^th street and  the well on Main Street. This plant now provides clean drinking water to the small rural community of 3,000.           

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New Sugar Creek Water Plant

by Amanda Conley
Tonka Equipment Company

Sometimes an existing water facility will not always get the job done. In Boone County, Indiana, the Sugar Creek Water Plant’s two outdated filters were coming to an end in life. The plant needed a system that would remove the iron from their water as well as create an easier backwash process that did not waste water or power. Investing in new filters was an obvious solution.

The county chose to replace the existing facility with equipment for an iron removal plant. A new aerator and three, 10’ by 38’ Horizontal Pressure Filters (HPF) had been exactly what the county needed. In Lebanon’s local news, a reporter filmed the start of the HPF installation process when the crane horizontally inserted the filters. After all the coordination efforts and construction, controls were installed and Sugar Creek’s newly improved plant started up in March.

More about Lebanon's Plant Upgrade:

http://www.lebanon-utilities.com/w_projects.html