Making the Shift from Water Chlorination to Reverse Osmosis

The Sterling Water Treatment Plant team made a quick and capable adjustment to reverse osmosis for uranium removal.
Making the Shift from Water Chlorination to Reverse Osmosis
The team at the Sterling Water Treatment Plant includes, from left, Theresa Haydel, operator; Jeff Reeves, utilities superintendent; David Beck, lead operator; and Nada Baker, operator.

Operators at the Sterling Water Treatment Plant went from on-site well water chlorination to a $30 million, 9.5 mgd reverse osmosis (RO) plant with deep injection wells for waste disposal. It has been an interesting experience.

“We were tasked with operating a very different...

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