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Petra-O IX · Oct 20, 2006

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Baptist Believer said:

I had a chance to talk to a water treatment engineer a few minutes ago...

The Short Version of What He Told Me

The top priority of a water treatment plant is to provide potable water in large quantities. Taste and smell considerations are a secondary issue. The technology exists to take care of taste and smell concerns through the use of additional ozone and additional flocculators, and your treatment plant is probably already doing this, but it would take quite a bit of time and expense to completely resolve the issue.

It is certainly possible to prioritize taste and odor considerations, but it would greatly increase the costs and limit the capacity of the treatment plant. And most people don’t want to pay $5/gallon for water to irrigate their yard or wash their car. Furthermore, the problem of water sources turning over only occurs during certain times of the year, so building the infrastructure to handle a problem that lasts only about three to four weeks a year (at most), is not very cost efficient.
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Thanks Baptist Believer for your time and effort in finding this out.:thumbs:

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