Water Treatment Plant

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Water Treatment Plant
EMAP 2006

• By
• Erica Lopez
• Tiffany Thomas
• Clay Montgomery
• Tyler Sims
• GRA Celina Bochis

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Objectives

• Build water treatment plant to serve the water
  park and surrounding communities (expand the city
  limits)
• Build small water treatment plant just for the
  park with only a sand filter and chlorine
  disinfection involved
• The location of the larger treatment plant will
  not be on the park site
• It will be on the nearest strip mine (brownfields)

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Treatment Plant Proposed Location
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Plan for Treatment Plant Location

• The strip mine is owned by the Gulf State Paper
  Corporation.
• This is the brownfields that thecity could
  pursue for development opportunities.
• Mr. Warner (owner) has been very generous in
  providing properties in the past for city
  projects.
• City needs ADEM and EPA approval and help with
  funding for cleaning.
• City may have funding to help clean and renovate
  the brownfields.

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Lake Nichol

• Built in 1954 and used as a water supply for city
  of Tuscaloosa.
• 380 acres and has a water capacity of 3.3
  billion gallons.
• Originally designed for approximately 50,000
  people.
• Use existing pipes and the pump station for our
  water plant in order to save cost.

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Treatment Plant Based onWater Consumption

• Domestic usage 15-70 gal/cap-day
• Public usage 5-20 gal/cap-day
• Commercial/Industrial usage 10-100 gal/cap-day
• Maximum usage between 6-8 am and 6-8 pm.
• Minimum usage
• between 1 and 5 am.
• Park water rides water usage

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Typical Water Treatment Plant

• Chemical mixing basin
• Flocculation Basin
• Settling Tank
• Rapid Sand Filter
• Disinfection with Chlorine
• Storage basin
• Pump

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Water Usage(from literature)
Ed Love Plant Water Storage Capacity 25.4 mil.
Gal Water Treatment Capacity 45.7 mil. Gal/
day Population Served 133,000 people
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Predicted Water Usage for Tuscaloosa

• Consumption (Water Treatment Capacity-Water
  Storage Capacity)/Population
• Consumption (45.7 mil-25.4 mil)gal-day/133,000pe
  ople
• Consumption 153 gal/day-person

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Population Prediction

• General population for the Lake Nichol area is
  about 2,400 people
• We used the arithmetic method to predict the
  population growth
• dP/ dt K
• where
• dP/dt growth rate
• K constant
• Final population Initial population Kdt
• We estimate the final population to be 10,000
  people.

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Conceptual Design

• Period 25 years
• Population 10,000
• Flow 100 gallons/cap-day
• Area
• Watermelon Rd.
• Yellow Creek Rd.
• Old Lock 15 Rd.

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Cost

• Building the water treatment plant
• 3/gallon of treated water
• 25/linear foot of pipe
• Cleaning the brownfields
• Money from ADEM and EPA
• City of Tuscaloosa funds

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So In Review

• We are providing a conceptual design for
  consideration.
• We plan to create a separate treatment system for
  the area due to population increases.
• The property and design we use would need
  approval from ADEM and the EPA.
• We hope the city will use some of its funds to
  renovate the brownfields.

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Any Questions?