Hungerford & Terry Announces A Radium Removal Process That Meets Latest EPA Standards With Substantially Lower Costs

Substantial Market Potential; Get Full Information at ACE Booth No. 3444

Clayton, NJ – Hungerford & Terry announces the introduction of a radium process that removes radium from municipal drinking water supplies at significant cost savings compared with standard ion exchange.

Information on the new process will be available at the Hungerford & Terry booth, Number 3444 at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition to be held in San Diego, California during the week of June 14-18, 2009.

Current U.S. EPA radium content limits for drinking water has an established MCL of 5 pCi/L for radium 226 & 228 and seeks to achieve zero radium in all U.S. municipal drinking water supplies as a necessary goal. H&T's new process facilitates meeting this requirement.

Hungerford & Terry's radium removal process delivers a significant benefit over ordinary water softener resins: It eliminates the regeneration that produces radioactive brine, thus reducing labor and material costs in the radium removal. With this new process, there is no regeneration step or any waste regenerant. An additional cost saving is also realized with a substantial reduction in the volume of resin required in the radium removal versus standard softening resins.

The EPA estimates that the emerging market potential for this new process will be in the treatment to water supplies in New Jersey, Maryland, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Texas and in the Eastern Rockies of the US.

In March 2009 – Hungerford & Terry, Inc. was selected by the City of Vineland, New Jersey to design equipment to remove radium from four municipal city wells. All of the systems for the four designated wells are identical in specifications and design, and each one includes two 102" diameter (2.5909m) exchangers to remove radium.

Prior to this radium removal process, the City of Vineland had been unable to utilize these wells because they exceeded the MCL drinking water regulations for radium.

With the growth of the Vineland, New Jersey area and new expansion of their municipal water system, it was essential to bring these wells into compliance in order to meet Vineland's growing demand for potable water.

In 2009, Hungerford & Terry, Inc. celebrates 100 years of water conditioning for a wide range of industrial, commercial and municipal operations throughout the world.

Since its inception in 1909, Hungerford & Terry has designed and manufactured thousands of systems that incorporate both conventional and unique water treatment technologies that include removal of iron, manganese, nitrate, arsenic and hydrogen sulfides.

Today, Hungerford & Terry is a leading distributor of high-performance water filtration media, including GreensandPlus. Based in Clayton, NJ, USA, Hungerford & Terry has over 30 sales representative organizations throughout the United States, as well as representatives in Canada, Central America, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Asia.

SOURCE: Hungerford & Terry, Inc.