Desalination and Brine Disposal for Horizon Regional Municipal Utility District
This paper will describe how Horizon City was able install a desalination plant outside of El Paso and dispose of the brackish water using evaporation ponds. The maintenance and operation […]
Arsenic Removal In Groundwater: A Review of Mitigation Using Iron Oxidation and Removal in a Small Community
Arsenic contamination of groundwater is primarliy an outcome of natural geologic formations. The Town of Tornillo has had high arsenic concentration levels varying up to 0.15 mg/l, exceeding the maximum […]
Little Town Big Water (Desalination and Other Challenges) Brackish Groundwater Treatment Facility for EPCWCID 4 (Fabens)
The EPCWCID 4 (District) water quality has deteriorated in the past years. A grant from USDA was provided for the design and construction of the RO facilities. The RO facility […]
Testing and Preparing for TCEQ Sample Requirements
A brief history of the International Water Quality Laboratory. The capabilites the laboratory posseses and the analyses the laboratory provides to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant. The role the […]
10 Years Later – Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant
The presentation will give an introduction to when the El Paso Water Brackish Water Desalination Plant was built and what lessons have been learned the past 10 years. It will […]
Full Recovery Desalination
The presentation will show all the complicated processes used at the Enviro Water Minerals plant. It will show the flow schematic that includes electrodialysis reversal, reverse osmosis, and other high […]
Ion Selectivity of Electrodialysis for Desalination and Reuse Enhancement
Selective separation of mono- and multi-valent ions has important applications in water reuse, desalination, and salt production, by adjusting ion composition to meet product water quality requirements. In this study, […]
El Paso’s Direct Potable Reuse Project – TCEQ Approval and Current Status
El Paso Water (EPWater) is developing the preliminary design for a new Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) that would treat up to 10 million gallons per day (mgd) of secondary […]
Use of Subsurface Intakes for Seawater Desalination in Monterey, California
This paper describes the operational experience and water treatment results obtained from a 0.3 MGD desal demo plant that uses the following processes: subsurface intakes (for pre-treatment), cartridge filtration (for […]
Identifying RO Pre-Treatment to Mitigate Both Membrane Fouling and Oxidation
This paper will present the RO performance results that lead to membrane fouling and oxidiation, the investigation of their causes, and the evaluation of the pre-treatment approach used to mitigate […]
