The cleanest sewage water in Arizona

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The city of Cottonwood could be drinking its reclaimed wastewater in 15 or 20 years, said Dan Lueder, the city’s head of development.

Actually, he nearly crowed this point.

“It looks like this is going to be the future of water re-use in Arizona,” Lueder said.

Cottonwood got into the drinking-water-production business in 2005, and it just happened to be sitting on a tax for big public projects that had accrued over about 20 years.

So Cottonwood plans to build an $8 million, solar-powered plant capable of breaking apart many trace synthetic compounds by blasting them with ozone and hydrogen peroxide.

The facility will likely have higher energy needs, but they’ll be met mostly or entirely by the sun.

But in Cottonwood, the water will next be sent into a winding system where it gets blasted with hydrogen peroxide and ozone, something called “advanced oxidation” treatment.

Ken Knickerbocker is engineering that part, and it will be capable of reducing chains of organic compounds.

“It will attack them and essentially break them down,” he said, without the chemical byproducts that now result from some disinfectants, like chlorine.

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The original article/video can be found at Solar Powered Ozone Provides Clean Sewage on a Budget