The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant (CDP) was completed in December 2015 and produces approximately 50 MGD of locally controlled drought-proof, potable water for San Diego County. The Water Research Foundation (WRF) initiated Project 4773, entitled Carlsbad Desalinated Seawater Integration Study, to assess the integration of seawater desalinated with reverse osmosis (SWRO) into the San Diego area conveyance and distribution network from the outset of CDP operation focusing primarily on water quality issues, including salinity, disinfectant residual, nitrification, disinfection by-product (DBP) formation, corrosion, and impact on irrigated plants (e.g., boron and chloride), among others. Working in collaboration with ten regional partner agencies, the research team compared water quality and operations data for the two years immediately preceding the CDP to (2014-15) to the first year of plant operation (2016) to assess any changes directly attributable to the introduction of desalinated seawater.
This presentation is available to AMTA Members only.
Speaker
- Brent Alspach
Company
- Arcadis
Event
- AMTA/AWWA Membrane Technology Conference, Las Vegas
Session
- AMTA/AWWA Membrane Technology Conference
Date
- 02/22/22
Media
Keywords
- SWRO, DBP, CDP Operation
Reference
- 9715-DP2905