See How Snowmakers Solved This Plant's Evaporation Problem

Running both reverse osmosis trains at the Hargesheimer Water Treatment Plant posed the risk of overloading the three evaporation lagoons (39.5 million gallons total volume).At full speed, each train generates  347 gpm of concentrate (500,000 gpd), but high humidity in summer reduces evaporation. “If the lagoons ever reached capacity, we’d have to shut down the trains during peak demand,” says Garry Houston, senior plant operator at the plant in Abilene, Texas. Draining concentrate slowly to a sewer wasn’t an option, as the inflow would upset the process at the wastewater plant.In July 2009, operators installed a standard land model Turbomist