American Water Acquisition - 2010

100 Bob House Parkway, Suffolk, VA 23432

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A rural lake in Chuckatuck, VA…

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is filled by rain and groundwater run-off.
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An elevated platform at the water’s edge,
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kept locked and secured,
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 is
filled
with
pumps
and
pipes
which…

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draw surface water from the lake and send it to…
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outdoor pools where the treatment process begins.
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Two large pools on either end of a raised platform
surround six smaller pools in a central walkway.
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The first small pool in the center holds surface water
drawn from the lake. It is turbid (muddied & unclear)
with suspended particles of dirt and organic material.
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Inside each small pool, metal paddlewheels
slowly turn the water from the lake and…
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their motion, aided by the addition of a
chemical flocculant, causes tiny…
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dirt particles to coagulate and float on the
pool’s surface. The clearer water below…
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is then piped along the bottom…

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of the two large sedimentation tanks at
either end of the outdoor platform.
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There it is allowed to enter these large tanks by
slowly rising to the top of circular diffusers.
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 Then, as this water sits in each
sedimentation basin, particulate matter
continues to settle to the bottom…
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while clear water at the surface trickles
over a weir at the edge of the tank…
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 and
runs
along
exterior
channels.
These
transport
the
now
clarified
surface
water…
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inside the adjacent building…

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to three more holding basins
in a filtration room…
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 where electrodeionization removes the
last remaining organic contaminants and…
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chemical disinfection treats any viruses,
bacteria or other pathogens which may
have escaped the filtration process.

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 Following
this final
disinfection,
the surface water
that was
first pumped
from the
country reservoir,
is at last
transferred
to…

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water storage domes at the edge of the complex.

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Occasionally, the sedimentation tanks used
to clean this surface water must be cleared
of the sludge which the process generates,
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 so they are drained by pumping that
turbid water into two retention ponds…

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where natural evaporation carries off the water…

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and the dried particulate which remains
is removed to a landfill.
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A second building at the Chuckatuck complex
treats 1.2 million gallons of water pumped
every day from wells deep underground.
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 This
deep
groundwater
is stored
in huge
fiberglass tanks
before
it is …

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purified with chemicals…

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 that
have
been
delivered,
unloaded
and…

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stored outside the complex.

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 Inside the building, salt and fluoride levels
occurring naturally within the deep-well water…

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are reduced by passing that water
through row upon row of…

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electrodialysis reversal units.

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Following this
electronic
treatment,
pipes
take
the
deep-well
groundwater
from
the
EDR units…

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 and
combine
it
with
surface
water
treated
earlier
in the
sedimentation
tanks.

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 The
resulting
mixture
is
then
agitated
by
right-angle
bends
as it
is
pushed…
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 through
a
long,
serpentine
pipeline
that
carries
the
blended
drinking
water…

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to storage outside the complex where it awaits
delivery to thousands of individual homes.

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