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January 24, 2005
New Treatment Plant Improves Naples, FL Troubled Water
The Naples Daily News reports that the Orange Tree Utility Company, which services Collier County, has opened a new water treatment facility to eliminate trihalomethanes, or THMs, and haloacetic acids, or HAAs, which had been found to be between four and seven times the legal limit.
These chemicals are both byproducts of the chlorination process. The discovery led to enforcement action by the state Department of Environmental Protection and prompted an Orange Tree resident to file a class-action lawsuit against the utility.
The upgraded treatment plant does a much better job of filtering the water coming into the plant to remove natural organic matter that can create THMs and HAAs.
Since 2004, a new state law required that Florida water treatment facilities must test for the presence of THMs and HAAs.
All US water treatment facilities, as they all use chlorination, should adopt such a law.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 24, 2005 08:32 PM
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