Project Profile: Brandywine Elementary School, New Palestine, Indiana, AD26 Arsenic, Iron, Manganese Removal System

In July 2009, AdEdge Technologies Inc. (AdEdge) was contacted by Ladd Engineering, Inc. to provide a proposal for the Brandywine Elementary School in the Southern Hancock School District. Shortly thereafter, AdEdge was selected to provide a potable water treatment system to the school to reduce elevated levels of arsenic, iron, and manganese that exceeded drinking water standards. Brandywine Elementary School has approximately 330 students and a daily usage of 5,000 gallons of water per day. The selected system was an AdEdge AD26 oxidation/filtration treatment system rated for 65 gallons per minute (gpm). Incoming iron concentration is 1.2 milligrams per liter (mg/L), manganese is 0.045 mg/L, and arsenic is 0.011 mg/L. The AdEdge system was selected over other options due to the previous success and IDEM permitted installations for removing these contaminants.