A mandate from Manitoba Conservation and Water Steweardship required water treatment plants to use microfiltration or some form of primary disinfection other than chlorination.
Rick Kokiw, a Class II operator hired by the town of Rossburn to oversee the water treatment plant, preferred chlorine dioxide, but felt the cost would overwhelm the 550 town residents. “I wanted a solution that was simple, cost-competitive, and easy to maintain,” he says. “When I saw the Hallett 30 UV reactors from UV Pure Technologies at a water conference last year, I figured this was the way to go.”
The Rossburn plant was the first of
