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Aquifer Recharge Field Trip #1
BARTOW – BRADENTON – ST PETERSBURG –
TAMPA
Date: Sunday,
Sept 12
Times: 8:00am to 6:00pm
Cost: $70 (Includes
lunch and beverages)
Leader: Andrew
Stone, American Ground Water Trust
Registration: Online or Mail-In
This field trip will visit four of Florida’s
aquifer recharge sites. All have different geologic and
operational characteristics. Project experts will be on hand
at each site to provide detailed background on hydrogeology,
project objectives, engineering and regulatory issues.
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The
Hines Power Generation site (Bartow)
on land mined for phosphate, involves wetland treatment and
sand filtration of cooling pond water prior to recharge with a
design capacity of 1.1mgd.
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Bradenton recharge
involves recharge water pre-treatment via degasification
contactors to reduce dissolved oxygen and inhibit the
mobilization of metals in recovery. Cycle testing has reduced
arsenic to less than 3 ug/l on recovery.
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Lunch stop at
view-point of the 5.5 mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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St. Petersburg ASR site
on the Pinellas Peninsula stores treated waste-water that is
recovered for non potable use.
Deep well injection of excess reclaimed water has been undertaken
on the same site since the late 1970’s.
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The Tampa
(Rome Avenue) ASR system
(8 wells permitted for 10 mgd) has been in operational
testing with beneficial use since 1995. More than 8 billion
gallons of water has been
supplied. For security and aesthetic reasons some of the
recharge and recovery wells are in below-ground vaults.
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