Texts Conducted on Treating Well Water
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HWnLolnrnnL curtail research on a newprocess the office of Saline Water SS techniques for water through a plastic mem-
It’s sour water partly because that on'nlH resnlMn (USDI) - , . purification of AMD. brane into a body of pure water,
of the influence of acid mine an inexpensive “backyard” by recent teehgquM bfb teth the
?egion g mn'red o^^^ 8 Tame Hollywood m [ ed^ al mOVCS t 0 trim research being curtail drainage will pass through the
reason all the way down to the hundreds of other h’amlets in "commercial reverse osmosis “but w.rbe'Tbr.nTcins'Sng d^the
Susque anna River. .... Appalachia, could be made equipment exists right now,” nroduct is still substandard acids and iron salts that make
The irony Of the situation IS that potable. savs Dr Harold Lovell director tne product is still substandard ~n al mln _ drainapp a nnllnfant ”
HoUywoodis the siteotamiraon Development ot the new ISS'SS, wh» it eomen to human con- ta3mg cut
dollar Mine Drainage Treatment process, called reverse osmosis, "but it j s designed to purify ..«L exnect that reverse backs an experiment was
Facility, run by Penn State. was funded at Penn State by a brackish and sea water and has nemncic umnid nrovido the oxtra planned at the Hollywood facility
""" ““^not previously been tested, on an measure of purification so that that would have integrated the
operational scale, to see what it treated mine drainage can be reverse osmosis technique with
might do to reclaim acidic classified as ‘excellent’ and not chemical-biological ones
water.” merely ‘all right’ to drink ” developed there.
The testing was to involve Osmosis goes on in the body all 11 was to have been capable of
intensive experimentation at the t be time It is a method of moving handling 25,000 gallons a day
Mine Drainage Treatment liquids . nutrients, for instance, “ Tt now appears,” says Lovell,
Facility That installation was f rnm n,p Hnnd stream to bodv “that the scale of the project will
opened three years ago under the tissues have to be drastically reduced,
sponsorship of the En- B takes place because Whether this will effect our
vironmental Protection Agency relatively pure liquids tend to ability to develop a backyard R-0
and the Pennsylvania Depart- move toward a region where unit suitable for acid drainage is
ment of Environmental there is high density, as provided uncertain.”
Resources, with Penn State in b y a high concentration of salts. Hollywood, meanwhile, isn’t
charge of research. But to turn the flow around - waiting The village is making
Microbiologists, sanitary rev erse osmosis - takes pressure. P lans to P'P e fresh water from a
engineers, biochemists and ‘<j n preliminary tests last source more than four miles
others from the University have summe r ’’notesLovell “weused away -at a cost of hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
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