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Toowoomba, Queensland, Austrlaia
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Mt Kynoch Water Treatment Plant
Shuttlewood Crescent
Mt Kynoch
Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350
Austrlaia
Contact Information:
Contact: Kevin Flanagan, Director Engineering Services
Email:
Telephone: 07 4688 6702
Fax: 07 4688 6632
Plant Operation: Municipal
Processing: Water
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Web site:
http://www.toowoombawater.com.au/
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Plant/Process Description:
At the Mt Kynoch Water Treatment Plant, where drinking water is already processed, Toowoomba's water is treated to meet the health and aesthetic requirements of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.
Most "dirt" (organic material, micro organisms, minerals) present in the dam water is measured as "turbidity" and turbidity is settled out of the water in a large settling tank. Multi-media filters (crushed coal, sand and gravel) remove the remainder of the turbidity. To settle and filter small particles, a specialised treatment chemical (coagulant) is added that makes the particles larger (flocculate). The larger particles (flocs) containing the dirt settle and become sludge that is removed. The smaller flocs are trapped in the filters.
Under conditions where the raw dam water is relatively clean, the settling stage is not needed, and the plant can be operated in what is called “contact filtration”.
Nuisance minerals such as iron and manganese are removed through adding chlorine prior to filtration. Chlorine oxidises these metals, bringing the ions from solution into suspension so that they may then be filtered out.
Adding chlorine in the treated water also destroys microorganisms, not trapped by the filters, and a sufficient quantity of chlorine is added to ensure some is present at the consumer tap, to prevent bacteriological re-growth in the pipes.
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Owner:
Water Futures Toowoomba
Web site:
http://www.toowoombawater.com.au/
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Operating Company:
Water Futures Toowoomba
Web site:
http://www.toowoombawater.com.au/
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