San Diego County recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its first operational potable water reuse treatment plant in Oceanside.
The plant will use ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and advanced oxidation to provide 3 mgd, which is more than 20% of Oceanside’s drinking water supply.
Read more about it at CBS8 or watch the video below.
Wastewater Technician Finds Woolly Mammoth Tooth at Construction Site
A wastewater technician on a construction site in Sheldon, Iowa, recently found a woolly mammoth tooth scientists say is more than 20,000 years old.
“I had just gone back to that location just to check if anything else had been done or anything like that and I pulled up and started looking around, and then it was just laying right there on top,” Justin Blauwet, the technician, told WFXRTV News.
Blauwet said he recognized it was something more than just a rock because his 6-year-old is into dinosaurs and they watch the Discovery Channel together.
Wisconsin City to Distribute Bottled Water While Awaiting PFAS Solution
In other news, city officials in Wausau, Wisconsin, voted to fund distribution of water filters and bottled water to residents while it builds a new treatment plant to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
The city recently discovered that all its wells contained PFAS, and while a new treatment facility is in the works and slated for completion late summer, officials say they’re working on adding designs that will give it the ability to treat PFAS.
