Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Tonka Water Featured in Ohio AWWA Section Newsletter

Tonka Water was recently featured in the Ohio AWWA Summer 2017 newsletter. This article highlights microcystin removal using Tonka Water's ion exchange technology in Archbold, OH. Tonka Water assisted in performance testing to assess the system's ability to reduce existing microcystin (TM) levels. 
The Archbold, Ohio Water Treatment Plant is Tonka Water's  first Ohio Organix™ system installation. The Organix™ system removes TOC in this Northwestern Ohio community's surface water supply and is designed to treat 2,083 gallons per minute. 


Tuesday, July 11, 2017

City Selects Tonka Water BLEU™ Underdrain

Tonka Water has been chosen for the refurbishment of the City's existing treatment system in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. This project will include a renovated surface water treatment system including the Tonka Water BLEU™ stainless steel underdrain, along with the innovative Simul-Wash™ washwater conservation system.
Tonka Water's BLEU™ underdrain replaces the current underdrain in order to extend the usable life of the filter. This stainless steel underdrain has a dual chambered design with air located externally eliminating all filtration dead zones.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's BLEU™ stainless steel underdrain.


Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Tonka Water Selected to Provide Water Treatment Equipment in Lakewood, WA

Tonka Water is pleased to announce a new project in Lakewood, Washington for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) from the City’s water supply. Tonka Water furnished two customized 26’ tall VOC stainless steel stripping towers specially designed for trichloroethylene removal.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Tonka Water Awarded Strontium Removal Project

Tonka Water was chosen to provide water treatment equipment for a new water treatment plant in Burlington, Wisconsin. Tonka Water’s customized ion exchange system was selected for radium removal in order to provide concurrent removal of strontium and radium. This will be Tonka Water’s third project with the City of Burlington.


Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Ion Exchange Systems. 

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Tennessee Community Chooses Tonka Water

Tonka Water has been chosen to provide equipment for a horizontal pressure filter system expansion in Adamsville, TN. The horizontal pressure filters utilize Tonka Water Iron-Man™ media to treat iron and manganese from the community well supply and incorporates customized controls to ensure consistency in operation. The project doubles the rated plant capacity from 800 gpm to 1600 gpm, and incorporates Tonka Water’s Simul-Wash™ innovative backwash process saving thousands of gallons of backwash waste water with each backwash cycle.  

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's  horizontal pressure filter systems.

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Tonka Water Selected to Provide Water Treatment System in New Madrid, MO

Tonka Water was recently selected as the manufacturer for a water treatment project in New Madrid, Missouri. The system includes an induced draft aerator and isolated cell horizontal pressure filters for the removal of iron. This unique system features Tonka Water’s Simul-Wash™ backwash process that will save millions of gallons of backwash waste water over the lifetime of the plant. The state-of-the-art isolated cell design offers flexibility by allowing the operator to isolate individual cells while adjacent cells remain in service, making it the most efficient footprint available in the industry.


Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's  isolated cell horizontal pressure filters.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Tonka Water Exhibiting at AWWA ACE17

Tonka Water will be exhibiting at the upcoming AWWA ACE17 Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia, PA.  Stop by booth #2115 to meet the Tonka Water team and learn more about our innovative products. 


BLEU™ - a blockless engineered underdrain with no dead zones.  This low profile stainless steel dual parallel underdrain is ideal for vertically challenged filters and integrates well with Tonka Water's Simul-Wash.™  


Click here to learn more about BLEU™.



Stop by our booth to view our BLEU™ underdrain model.




DTS™- Delivered Treatment System.  Plug-n-play complete water treatment systems delivered to the site fully tested.  

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Stop by booth #2115 to learn more about these 
proprietary products.  

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Tonka Water Exhibiting at AWWA ACE17

Tonka Water will be exhibiting at the upcoming AWWA ACE17 Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia, PA.  Stop by booth #2115 to meet the Tonka Water team and learn more about our innovative products. 

Pur-IX™- Continuous Ion Exchange systems.
The use of the multi-port valve revolutionizes ion exchange for practically any application.
 
Click here to learn more about Pur-IX™.

Stop by our booth to view our unique
multi-port Pur-IX™ valve model.





Dualator® Series - Low profile packaged treatment systems.  These cost-effective solutions incorporate aeration, detention and filtration in a single structure.


Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Dualator® Series.







Stop by booth #2115 to learn more about these
proprietary products.  

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Tonka Water Selected to Provide Water Treatment Equipment in Spring Grove, MN

Tonka Water is pleased to announce a new project in Spring Grove, Minnesota. At this facility, Tonka Water furnished a 32’ high VOC stripping tower specially designed for trichloroethylene removal from the city’s groundwater source.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's VOC stripping towers.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Pressure Filtration System to be provided by Tonka Water

Tonka Water has been selected to provide a water treatment system in German Valley, Illinois. This customized system will include vertical pressure filters with IMAR™ filter media and the unique Tonka Water hydrous manganese oxide (HMO) feed system. The feed system includes TonkaBlend™ to consistently and effectively feed TonkaZorb™, a preformed HMO solution for radium absorption. The system also features Tonka Water’s Simul-Wash™ backwash process, saving thousands of gallons of waste washwater with each backwash cycle.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's TonkaZorb™ HMO solution.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Tonka Water Chosen for Renovation of Water Treatment System

Tonka Water has been chosen for the refurbishment of an existing water treatment system in Rio Hondo, Texas. The existing concrete system provides flocculation, tube settler sedimentation, and granular media filtration. As a part of this project, new customized Tonka Water paddle-wheel flocculators will be supplied, and the sedimentation basin will be fitted with new, efficient tube settlers, and the innovative MechVac™ mechanical sludge removal system.  Also included will be the addition of a third filter cell, and the two existing filter cells will be refurbished to match, incorporating Tonka Water’s Simul-Wash™ backwash process, BLEU™ stainless steel underdrains and engineered media. 

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's packaged treatment systems. 



Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Tonka Water Provides an Aeration System to the community of Buffalo Island, Arkansas

Tonka Water was recently selected to provide a groundwater aeration system for the Buffalo Island community in Monette, AR. Tonka Water’s unique induced draft aerator features an innovative hinged access door, and treats a plant water flow of 1000 gallons per minute.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's aeration products.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

California Community Chooses Tonka Water

Tonka Water has been chosen to provide a steel gravity filter system with controls, for the Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California. Intimate performance knowledge of an upstream innovative Saturated Air® Flotation (SAF™) clarifier product, by Heron Innovators, allowed Tonka Water to provide a tertiary filtration effluent guarantee to meet California Title 22 requirements. The gravity filter system features Tonka Water’s Simul-Wash™ backwash process, saving thousands of gallons of water with each backwash.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water;s gravity filtration products. 

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Dualator® VI System to be Provided by Tonka Water

Tonka Water is pleased to announce its selection to provide a groundwater treatment system for the city of Clare, Iowa. The new system will include Tonka Water’s Dualator® VI package treatment system consisting of aeration, detention and granular media filtration for removal of iron and manganese. The Dualator® VI is fabricated completely of aluminum to save on life cycle maintenance. Dualator® VI units are also available in painted or stainless steel construction, and can also be applied for arsenic and radium removal.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's family of Dualator® Products.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Retrofit Radium Removal Project in Mertzon, TX has been Commissioned

A Tonka Water retrofit project has been commissioned in Mertzon, Texas. The project includes the addition of TonkaBlend™/TonkaZorb™ for optimal feeding of hydrous manganese oxide (HMO) for radium removal. Mertzon marks the second HMO facility in the State of Texas.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's TonkaZorb™.



Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Dualator® III System Commissioned in Menahga, MN

Tonka Water is pleased to announce the commissioning of a Dualator® III system in Menahga, Minnesota. This new unit replaces their original steel gravity filter, but includes aeration and detention, providing more robust treatment of iron and manganese.  The unique and space-efficient design of the Tonka Water Dualator® III offers a low-profile system that incorporates aeration, detention and filtration in a single treatment unit.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Dualator® systems. 

Lake Vermillion State Park, MN Treatment System Commissioned

A new Tonka Water treatment plant located in Lake Vermillion State Park, Minnesota was commissioned. This system treats Lake Vermillion water using ultrafiltration membranes and carbon filters.  Tonka Water provided a DTS™ (Delivered Treatment System), a complete "plug and play" treatment system in a prefabricated building.

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Tonka Water Dualator® III System Commissioned in Cyrus, MN

A new Tonka Water customized treatment system was commissioned in Cyrus, Minnesota. The new system features a modified Tonka Water Dualator® III to remove iron and manganese. Tonka Water's Dualator® III is a space-efficient, low profile, packaged system that provides aeration, detention and filtration within one treatment unit. 

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Dualator® products.


Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Tonka Water Pressure Filtration System Commissioned in Arkansas

Tonka Water provided a vertical pressure filtration system that was recently commissioned for the community of Williford-Ozark Acres in Arkansas.  This system treats iron for the community's drinking water supply using Tonka Water's customized vertical pressure filters.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's pressure filters. 


Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Tonka Water Project Featured in Ohio AWWA Spring Newsletter

The Archbold, Ohio project was recently featured in the OH AWWA spring newsletter highlighting Tonka Water's role in providing anion exchange treatment. 

This project is Tonka Water's  first Ohio Organix™ system installation. The Organix™ system removes TOC in the community's surface water supply and is designed to treat 2,083 gallons per minute. Organix™ was found to be the most cost effective solution for this challenging surface water.

Click here to read the full article. The Archbold, Ohio project is featured on page 28 of the newsletter.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Organix™ system. 

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Radium Removal Plant Commissioned in Pewaukee, WI

Tonka Water is pleased to announce a customized horizontal pressure filtration system was commissioned in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. This system includes a TonkaBlend™ panel for optimal feeding of hydrous manganese oxide (HMO) to facilitate radium removal, and also includes Tonka Water's Simul-Wash™ backwash system for optimal media cleansing and waste minimization.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Simul-Wash™ backwash system.



Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Membrane Expansion Project in Gwinner, ND Commissioned

The Gwinner, ND treatment plant was recently commissioned with both refurbished and new Tonka Water equipment to increase treatment capacity by 50%. This expanded membrane softening system includes the addition of filtration capacity and the refurbishment of existing filters. New membrane skids and a degasifier replaced the original equipment- all furnished and guaranteed by Tonka Water.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's membrane systems. 



Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Plant Commissioned in Middletown, IN

Tonka Water is pleased to announce a new treatment system recently commissioned for Middletown, Indiana. This system features Tonka Water's customized vertical pressure filters along with an induced draft aerator for the treatment of iron.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Water Treatment Plant in Washington Commissioned

Tonka Water is pleased to announce the commissioning of a water treatment plant in Yelm, Washington.  Tonka Water provided a water treatment system using our highly space-efficient horizontal pressure filter to remove iron and manganese. This system features Tonka Water's  Simul-Wash™ backwash system, saving thousands of gallons of waste washwater with every treatment cycle.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's pressure filtration products. 

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Tonka Water Dualator® VI System Commissioned in Iowa

Tonka Water is pleased to announce the commissioning of a new a water treatment system in Swea City, IA. The system treats iron and features the Tonka Water Dualator® VI; a cost-effective water treatment system providing aeration, detention and filtration in a single packaged configuration. 


Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Dualator® Products.







Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Vertical Pressure Filtration System Recently Commissioned in Lone Rock, IA

A Tonka Water groundwater treatment system was recently commissioned in Lone Rock, Iowa. The system includes skidded vertical pressure filters and a forced draft aerator for the removal of iron and manganese.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's pressure filtration systems. 


Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Tonka Water Plant Commissioned in Illinois

In Good Hope, Illinois a Tonka Water vertical pressure treatment system was recently commissioned for the treatment of iron and manganese using Tonka Water's highly customizable vertical pressure filters. This system includes Tonka Water's Simul-Wash™, saving thousands of gallons in backwash waste with every backwash cycle.

Click here to learn more about Tonka water's pressure filtration systems. 




Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Tonka Water Treatment System Recently Commissioned in Plymouth, IN

A horizontal pressure filtration system was recently commissioned in Plymouth, Indiana. Treating both iron and manganese; this system includes Tonka Water's unique Simul-Wash™ backwash, saving thousands of gallons of wash water with each backwash. 

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's pressure filtration systems. 


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Tonka Water Gravity Filtration Plant Recently Commissioned in Nebraska

Utica, Nebraska now has a new gravity filtration system for the treatment of iron and manganese. This unique system is constructed of aluminum and includes Tonka Water's Simul-Wash™ backwash system, saving thousands of gallons of waste washwater per backwash. The filter's isolated cell design affords an efficient footprint and flexibility by allowing the operator to isolate individual cells within the vessel when needed. This feature allows the ability to take a cell off-line for backwash while continuing to treat water in the other cells, all the while keeping the plant operating at full capacity.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's gravity filtration systems. 


Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Tonka Water is selected to provide Organix™ System in Winter Springs, FL

Tonka Water was recently awarded a contract in Winter Springs, Florida to provide an Organix™ ion exchange system for removal of total organic carbon (TOC) to mitigate disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation. Tonka Water's cost-effective, customizable and user friendly Organix™ system will also have the capability to provide biological enhancement for removal of hydrogen sulfide alongside TOC removal.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's Organix™ ion exchange system.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Michigan Community Chooses Tonka Water

Tonka Water was recently selected as the manufacturer for a water treatment project in Elk Rapids, Michigan. A fully skidded isolated cell horizontal pressure filter system with Tonka Water IMAR™ media will be provided for the removal of iron. This unique system features Tonka Water's Simul-Wash™ backwash system that will save millions of gallons of waste washwater over the lifetime of the plant. The state-of-the-art isolated cell design affords an efficient footprint while also offering operational flexibility by allowing the operator to isolate individual cells within the vessel allowing for backwash or the ability to take a cell off-line while continuing to treat water in the other cells, all the while keeping the plant operating at full capacity.

Click here to learn more about Tonka Water's pressure filtration options.