Reprinted by permission of The Buffalo Press, Tuesday Jan. 9 2007
FloWSC General Manager Jim Martin had the unpleasant duty to report to the board that the recently installed treatment facilitity at the Highway 75 well was failing to do the job and that the well is currently sequestered and the system is being supplied from the Flo well.
“There is too much iron for the filter.” Martin said.
The pilot study by Water Equipment and Treatment Services Inc. reported in August of 2006 that the iron in the well was at 7.82 mg/l and stated that treatment would bring it to 0.045 mg/l but a November 2006 analysis requested by Martin where he collected the samples now shows a total iron of 28.0 mg/lin the raw water with a finish rate of 0.28 mg/l and a finish rate of Manganese, n of 0.18.mg/l.
These rates severely limit the amount of water that can be produced by that well, and makes it much more expensive, Martin told the board. The filtered waste must be trucked away at a rate of about $200. per load.
Martin presented the board with an open quote from Smith Pump Company, Inc. of
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