Sea Water Desalination is the future. And the future is now in Florida. Officials in several Florida counties are in the early stages of planning for a project to desalinate sea water in order to augment ground water supplies. A partnership involving Flagler, Volusia and St. Johns counties would create a 20 million to 50 million gallon per day water treatment plant. The plant is expected to be operational in 2017.
"This would be a regional seawater desalination plant designed to serve multiple communities," said Richard Adams, public works director for Palm Coast in Flagler County. Once a plant becomes operational, it will be a valuable tool in helping the fast growing part of the state meet its future water needs.
The partnership includes the Lake County cities of Mount Dora and Leesburg; Palm Coast and Brunnel; Flagler and St. Johns Counties and the Dunes Community Development District.
The cost to produce water at the proposed plant is estimated to be $3.70 to $4.25 per thousand gallons. This is within the range of $2.10 to $5.80 per thousand gallons for other desal plants around the world. (These numbers are for municipal WTPs. Water Treatment Systems, Inc commercial industrial desal systems generally operate at about $2.00 per thousand gallons).
"Our challenge right now is to determine the size of the plant and who the customers are going to be,: Adams said. "We have an excellent design team that is quite confident about making progress with this project".
"This would be a regional seawater desalination plant designed to serve multiple communities," said Richard Adams, public works director for Palm Coast in Flagler County. Once a plant becomes operational, it will be a valuable tool in helping the fast growing part of the state meet its future water needs.
The partnership includes the Lake County cities of Mount Dora and Leesburg; Palm Coast and Brunnel; Flagler and St. Johns Counties and the Dunes Community Development District.
The cost to produce water at the proposed plant is estimated to be $3.70 to $4.25 per thousand gallons. This is within the range of $2.10 to $5.80 per thousand gallons for other desal plants around the world. (These numbers are for municipal WTPs. Water Treatment Systems, Inc commercial industrial desal systems generally operate at about $2.00 per thousand gallons).
"Our challenge right now is to determine the size of the plant and who the customers are going to be,: Adams said. "We have an excellent design team that is quite confident about making progress with this project".
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