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.


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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. 

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.

Tonka Water Awarded Project for Water Treatment Plant Expansion in West Carteret, NC

Tonka Water was recently selected to provide water treatment equipment for a plant expansion in West Carteret, North Carolina. This project adds Tonka Water's Organix™ ion exchange system for TOC/color removal, as well as an induced draft aerator and cation softening unit.

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Tonka Water Selected for Expansion in Palm Beach County

Tonka Water was recently awarded a project for a 20 million gallon a day (MGD) expansion of an existing 10 MGD Tonka Water Organix™ ion exchange system in Palm Beach County, FL. Designed by GlobalTech, Inc of Boca Raton, FL, the expansion brings total organics removal capacity at Water Treatment Plant #8 to 30 MGD. The addition of 14 vessels assures the county of a reliable means to consistently treat their total organic carbon (TOC) to less than 3 mg/L and color to less than 5 color units.

 

Palm Beach County initially installed and commissioned a Tonka Water Organix™ ion exchange system downstream from lime softening in 2008 to address issues with total organic carbon (TOC), disinfection byproduct precursors (DBPs), and excessive color in their finished water. Rated at 10 MGD, this original seven-vessel system has since performed exceptionally well and is a proven, consistent and reliable process for the county to meet water quality requirements. As a county owned and operated facility, staff have prioritized proper operations and maintenance, leading to successful treatment.

 

Pleased with the performance of the initial system, the decision was made by the county to commit to additional ion exchange capacity for TOC and color removal. Throughout the design phase, Tonka Water assisted in designing what would become a cost effective addition of fourteen vessels and 20 MGD of treatment capacity. New innovations were incorporated into the system design ensuring efficient, state of the art cleaning and regeneration. The new system is on target to be commissioned in 2017, and once completed, the twenty-one vessel, 30 MGD capacity system at Water Treatment Plant #8 will stand alone as the largest municipal ion exchange system for organics removal or otherwise, in the United States.

 

Tonka Water is proud to be a part of the county's future treatment strategy.

Existing Palm Beach County, FL Organix™ ion exchange treatment system

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Colorado Community Chooses Tonka Water

Tonka Water was recently selected for a water treatment project in Highland Lakes, Colorado. Two ion exchange reaction vessles with resin media will be provided to remove nitrates in the community water supply. Tonka Water’s compact ion exchange technology provides the lowest waste volumes of all treatment options.


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Tonka Water Awarded Contract for Water Treatment System in Illinois

Tonka Water is pleased to announce a recent project in Lexington, IL. This water treatment system includes horizontal pressure filtration and forced draft aeration for the treatment of iron and manganese.  This system also includes ion exchange to provide softening and the removal of total organic carbon (TOC) for the community’s water supply. 

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Tonka Water Selected to Provide Water Treatment System in Pemberville, OH

Tonka Water has been awarded the equipment supply for a water treatment project in Pemberville, Ohio. This ion exchange water treatment plant will provide softening to the community water supply, using Tonka Water’s compact ion exchange technology providing the lowest waste volumes of all treatment options considered. We are excited to begin this second project with the City of Pemberville.


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Tonka Water selected to Provide New Water Treatment System in Corona, CA

Tonka Water has been selected to provide an ion exchange system for Corona, California. This unique and innovative 2,400 gpm system remove both nitrate and perchlorate from the city's water supply.

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Tonka Water Awarded Contract in Elkhorn, WI

Tonka Water will be providing Elkhorn, Wisconsin with a new water treatment system. The plant features two Tonka Water technologies: a customized Dualator® III incorporating aeration, detention and filtration in a single unit; and an ion exchange system. The Dualator® III will treat iron, manganese and arsenic. The Ion Exchange system will remove radium and soften the water. Elkhorn has been a long- time customer of Tonka Water, beginning with its first project in 1978. This will be Tonka Water's fifth project with the city. 

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Horizontal Pressure Filter and Ion Exchange System Commissioned in Ohio

Tonka Water recently commissioned an iron and manganese removal water treatment plant in Baltimore, Ohio. This system is comprised of an isolated cell horizontal pressure filter followed by an ion exchange softening system.  The Tonka Water isolated cell horizontal pressure filter is a prudent equipment option that affords operational flexibility with a compact, efficient footprint.  Isolating individual cells within the filters allows a plant operator to backwash or takes one cell off-line while continuing to treat water in the other cells - all the while keeping the plant operating at full capacity.

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Tonka Water Selected to Build a New Water Treatment System in Haines City, FL

Tonka Water was awarded a contract in Haines City, Florida to provide a dissolved organic Ion Exchange system. Tonka Water’s cost-effective, customized and user friendly ORGANIX™ system will also provide biological enhancement to remove hydrogen sulfide along with total organic carbon (TOC).


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Ion Exchange System Commissioned in Ohio

Tonka Water commissioned an Ion Exchange softening system in the north-central community of West Salem, Ohio. This Ion Exchange system was added to provide softening to an existing Tonka Water iron and manganese removal system.

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Tonka Water Plant Featured in Treatment Plant Operator Magazine

A Tonka Water plant in Pontiac, Illinois was featured in the February issue of Treatment Plant Operator magazine. Click below to read the full article.

http://www.tpomag.com/editorial/2016/02/illinois_water_plant_consistently_brings_home_awards

Tonka Water to Provide Largest Ion Exchange Plant in US

Tonka Water has been selected to provide an Ion Exchange nitrate removal system for Columbus, OH. Once built, this nitrate removal system will be one of the largest Ion Exchange plants in the United States, utilizing 18 vessels rated at an overall capacity of 26 MGD. The vessels will be divided into 3 treatment trains of six vessels each, to provide consistent water quality for this thriving area. To learn more about Tonka Water's product offering, visit our website.

Tonka Water Commissions its innovative salt-saving Nitrate Pur-IX™ System in IL

Tonka Water’s salt-saving Pur-IX™ ion exchange treatment system was recently commissioned at a private water utility in Illinois. This unique system takes advantage of an advanced valve design and multiple vessels to provide continuous regeneration, and is an ideal solution to reduce waste and boost efficiency in all ion exchange applications.

Visit the Advanced Ion Exchange page on our website to learn more about the Pur-IX™ process.

Ion Exchange In Arcadia, FL

The most recent issue of the Florida Water Resources Journal has an article about the new water treatment plant in Arcadia, FL. The article, "Ion Exchange and Disposal Issues with the Brine Waste System," outlines the design process of this groundwater plant. Tonka Water piloted for Arcadia, and our Ion Exchange equipment was used in the final design of the new system. 

Arcadia, FL Ion Exchange Water Treatment Plant

Visit the link below for the full story!

Article: http://issuu.com/fwrj/docs/0414_fwrj_web/56

Ion Exchange Softening and Oxidative Ion Exchange Treatment: Arcadia, FL

by John Berrigan, Jr. PE

Arcadia, Florida chose dual-stage ion exchange treatment to address hardness, radium, sulfide and TOC. The treatment process removes hardness and radium through ion exchange softening. The second stage converts the sulfide to sulfate while adsorbing natural organic matter (NOM) on regenerable ion exchange media. 

Tonka Ion Exchange system makes a difference in Morehead City, NC

by John Berrigan
Tonka Equipment Company

Morehead City recently dedicated a new water treatment plant featuring Tonka Ion Exchange for softening, color and TOC reduction. Interested citizens, community leaders and medical professionals attended the open house. The City was pleased to add this improvement to one of their most essential citizen services – an abundant, appealing, and healthful drinking water supply.

Background

Morehead City’s water supply comes from groundwater wells and contains minerals that create a hard scale in the pipelines. It also contains naturally occurring color that is noticeable in bathtubs, pools, and in drinking cups. For treatment of the hardness and color, Tonka provided three ion exchange vessels using solar salt to produce softened water, and three ion exchange vessels to decolorize the water and remove materials that had the potential to form disinfection byproducts. The facility was designed by McDavid Associates of Farmville, NC.

Ion exchange—an innovative and unique treatment solution

Other communities with similar water typically have used a different process —either activated carbon or reverse osmosis. By contrast, ion exchange uses less than a third of the energy and conserves much more of the water drawn from Morehead City’s wells. From an environmental perspective, the ion exchange process is more energy efficient, the salt used in the system is non-toxic, naturally abundant, and is produced by solar evaporation. A winning combination for

the City!

Positive results enjoyed by all

The positive effect on the community was almost immediate. The local hospital noticed that the cost of assuring high purity water for their instruments and treatment practices dropped in half. Local residents voiced their pleasure about having soft decolorized water. The difference between the well water and the finished water was remarkable. During the peak tourist season, the water plant produces 1,200,000 gallons per day of softened, decolorized water. The Tonka ion exchange system achieves the water quality required by the City of Morehead with a cost-effective, environmentally sound solution.

South Florida Town Solves Color Challenges

by Tom Davis 
Tonka Equipment Company

Lantana Ion Exchange Plant

The Town of Lantana is located on the southeast coast of Florida, in an area that uses groundwater exclusively for its municipal water supply. The groundwaters in the area typically contain excessive iron, organically bound color compounds, and high hardness levels. Historically, the Town of Lantana had used chlorination and fi ltration to treat iron and color. The aggressive chlorination that was used unfortunately resulted in the formation of disinfection by-products (DBP) such as trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids – in concentrations that exceeded newly promulgated federal standards.


To address this problem, the Town considered installing membranes as a treatment alternative. But with reject rates as high as 20%, and costs nearly twice the allowable budget, membranes were difficult to justify. Withdrawal limitations imposed by the South Florida Water Management District contributed to ruling out membranes because of the high reject stream volumes. Membranes also have high capital and operating costs and would have resulted in a complete and costly re-work of the existing plant site.