The plant is a conventional water treatment facility with four stages: disinfection, coagulation, sedimentation and filtration. A flash mixer adds hypochloride as a disinfectant. Often, hydrated lime is added, too, to boost alkalinity, since acidic water eventually would eat through pipes.
Place name
Big Cottonwood Water Treatment Plant
Drainage
Big Cottonwood Creek
Latitude
40°37'7.54"N
Longitude
111°46'57.47"W
Date
2009-08-24
Creator
Craig Denton
Type
image
Format
image/tif
Rights
Craig L. Denton 2009. Use of this file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
