Tag: Outfalls
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Gold Coast’s twin intake/outfall tunnels save space and environment
A key part of the anti-drought strategy in Queensland, Australia, has been the construction of a 125,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant, located at Tugun on the Gold Coast, due to start producing water in November 2008. This plant will supply up to 20% of the average demand for the Brisbane/Gold Coast Region. The Gold…
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Specialists team up to exploit sub seabed intake market
Sub seabed desalination plant intake company, Intake Works, has formed a partnership with specialist boring firm, Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), to market sub seabed intakes for seawater desalination projects.
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Pacific Institute reports on intakes and brine disposal
A series of recommendations about the design of desalination intakes and outfalls has been published in a report by the Pacific Institute as part of its series on Key Issues For Seawater Desalination in California.
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WRRF seeks proposals for desalination discharge database
The WateReuse Research Foundation has issued a Request for Proposals (RfP) for collection of information on seawater desalination and establishment of a database of permitting requirements for discharges.
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Santa Cruz desalination EIR comment deadline in July
The draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the 2.5 MGD (9,500 m³/d) seawater desalination plant for the greater Santa Cruz area in California, USA, which was released on 13 May 2013, will be available for public comment until 15 July 2013.
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Design/build RFQ issued for Monterey desalination plant
A request for qualifications (RFQ) was issued on 1 April 2013 by California American Water (Cal Am) for the desalination infrastructure component of its Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project.
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Monterey consultant can’t choose between projects
The Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Board (MPRWA) in California still has to decide between three competing seawater desalination projects for the area after its Technical Advisory Committee accepted on 17 September 2012 a report by consultants Separation Processes Inc of Carlsbad.
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KAUST SWRO desalination plant won by AES Arabia
A US$ 14 million contract for a 15,000 m³/d seawater reverse-osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant for the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) Research Park in Saudi Arabia has been awarded to AES Arabia Ltd.
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Funding for 10 new NCEDA desalination projects announced
Australia’s parliamentary secretary for sustainability and urban water, Senator Don Farrell, announced ten new innovative desalination research projects which will benefit from the 4th funding round for the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination Australia (NCEDA).
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Seawater desalination in Israel and its environmental impact
Until recently, very little information had been published about the effect of seawater desalination plants on the marine environment, overlooking, for instance, the discharge of chemicals in the reject brine.The plants at Ashkelon, Israel, and Perth, Australia, have been among the first to look at this aspect. This article looks at two working Israeli seawater…