A Little Sand Means a Lot of Treatment for This Arizona Clean-Water Plant

Surface water is a primary drinking water source for the Arizona Town of Gilbert, which has two water treatment facilities.As the population expanded rapidly in Gilbert and the adjoining city of Chandler, the town needed to double the capacity of its Santan Vista Water Treatment Plant. The key to the expansion was the RapiSand ballasted flocculation system from WesTech Engineering.This high-rate clarification process, using rapid mixing and multistage flocculation followed by sedimentation, was a major factor in the selection of the plant expansion as 2018 Water Treatment Plant Project of the Year by the AZ Water Association. DELIVERING WATERThe Town of