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Municipal drinking water facilities, power plants, refineries, chemical plants and various other industries all need an uninterrupted supply of high-quality water. Sometimes factors such as drought, contaminated water, a change in process water quality requirements or the shutdown of a water treatment system for maintenance affect a plant’s ability to meet its purified water needs. When that happens, the plant needs an alternate water supply.

Mobile water treatment offers a cost-effective solution -- a trailer containing water treatment equipment can be brought to the site in question. Mobile trailers provide purified water for pilot facilities, interim use until a permanent system is installed, system scale-up, zero discharge applications and scheduled maintenance of permanent systems.

With water shortages, more stringent environmental regulations and the cost of capital equipment on the rise, businesses are looking toward mobile water treatment for emergency, seasonal and short-term water treatment needs. This trend is no surprise to USFilter, a provider of water and wastewater treatment systems and services, of which mobile treatment plays a key part.

A recent treatment project involved the Cucamonga Valley Water District in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. USFilter provided emergency trailers for nitrate removal from a dormant well that needed to be brought back on line during a water shortage. In late May 2004, the water district learned that its normal supply of water would be interrupted in a week because of emergency supply line work. This shutdown would have caused a 60% reduction in the water supply to 43,000 connections. The company sent multiple mobile units to the well site in Rancho Cucamonga. Each unit processed 400 gal. per minute of influent well water, removing the nitrate with an NSF-certified resin. The mobile services allowed an uninterrupted supply of treated water for the district, with no waste discharge at the site. Besides bringing the well on line, the mobile treatment provided an additional 10 million gal. of water during the emergency water shortage.

In the industrial sector, USFilter has provided mobile water treatment to power plants requiring extra water capacity. In June 2004, the company supplied two emergency mobile trailers to PSEG Power’s Mercer Generating Station in Trenton, N.J., preventing a plant shutdown.

For more information about mobile and onsite services, visit http://www.usfilter.com/water/Business+Centers/Mobile_and_On-Site_Services/.

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