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. 

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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.

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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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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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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.  

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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.


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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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