The paper will describe the design of a reverse osmosis treatment facility that is capable of treating a variable salinity ground water supply with total dissolved solids ranging from 3,000 to 16,600 mg/L without any significant changes in the installed equipment. The paper will be based upon the work that was performed to design the City of Tarpo...

At its proposed buildout capacity of 30 MGD, the SAWS BGD project will be the largest municipal RO treatment facility in the state of Texas and one of the largest in-land potable desalination facilities in the United States. This is the only municipal RO treatment plant in Texas that uses a three-stage RO system with an overall feed water recovery ...