David Schaller "Zero-Liquid-Discharge" Wastewater Recycling in Cloudcroft, NM. After a drought in 2006 left the small high desert community of Cloudcroft, NM, completely without water, the town decided to move away from its existing traditional gas chlorination treatment method to a fully reclaimed, recycled "zero liquid discharge" system. Using photovoltaics to provide power to the plant, the reuse system is a groundbreaking trifecta of water conservation, safety and environmental innovation. The Cloudcroft reuse system uses a membrane bioreactor (MBR), a multi-barrier filtration system, and MIOX on-site sodium hypochlorite to treat the wastewater.
Natural waters from local sources will be blended in and disinfected with MIOX mixed oxidants to better-than-drinking-water standards.
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