Chicago's Huge Jardine Water Plant to Get Chlorination System Upgrade

N/ATH=80% CELLPADDING=10> The Jardine Water Purification Plant in Chicago possibly is the biggest drinking water facility in the world with its capacity of over 1.4 billion gallons per day. It is about to get a major overhaul of its 34-year old chlorination system, and <%=company%> of Warminster, Pennsylvania, has been selected by the city's water department to tackle the estimated $2 million upgrade project.

The manufacturer will supply 13 special 20,000-lb/day chlorination modules along with microprocessor-based Micro-DCI single loop controllers for each chlorinator, plus related equipment to remotely monitor the entire chlorination system. The Scott Company, general contractor for the project, will remove the old system and install the new one. In addition to supplying the equipment, Bailey-Fischer & Porter will provide project engineering, start-up, and commissioning. Installation work will begin in late 1997 and be completed by the end of 1998.

According to Dave Barton, manager, disinfection systems, for the supplier, the Jardine Plant has been using <%=company%> pneumatic chlorination modules since 1963. This long service life demonstrated by the original equipment is said to have been an important factor in the selection of the company's current advanced product for the upgrade project. Also, an electronically-controlled prototype chlorination system was provided two years ago for evaluation by the Jardine technical staff.

Edited by Ian Lisk