Here's How a North Carolina Plant Team Deals With Variable Source Water Turbidity

Charge analyzers help a North Carolina plant team deal with big weather-driven variations in source water turbidity.
Here's How a North Carolina Plant Team Deals With Variable Source Water Turbidity
A Chemtrac DuraTrac 4 Streaming Current Sensor downstream of the flash mixer.

The Yadkin River produced wide and rapid turbidity swings that regularly challenged the city of King Water Treatment Plant operators. Turbidity on dry days averaged 6 to 8 NTU, but heavy rains could raise levels to 800 NTU or higher within 30 minutes.

The operators at the...

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