This is new, it is often that we end up hearing of how water is being polluted everywhere. But then ever heard of a water cleaning treatment negatively affecting the healthy condition of water? Well, the Columbus Department of Public Utilities’ Dublin Road water-treatment plant has come under some criticism for the same. It is a new treatment system which looks at producing healthy and drinkable water absolutely fit for consumption. But then this water cleaning system may as well be responsible for causing water pollution problems. This is in many of the central Ohio cities. This is where several eye brows have been raised and the water cleansing Osmosis treatment has come under the scanner.
The Osmosis treatment takes stream water or well water and sends it though membranes. This process simply does away with the unwanted dirt and minerals. Many places are looking forward to putting this Osmosis treatment to use. Among the many regions are Delaware and Marysville which are looking to using it. There is a hitch though and a big one at that. Every ten gallons of water that passes through such systems, a good two gallon of the water is reject water. This water is highly concentrated as far as pollution is concerned. The pollutants in this amount of water don’t quite get cleaned in the filter. This is where the matter of worry comes for the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The high concentration of minerals and pollutants in the water may thus fatally affect fishes and other under water wild lives. This is even as the highly polluted water is dumped back into the streams.
The city of Delaware may just about end up shelling out as much as two million to pump away the reject water. This would be done and flushed away nearly 5 miles to its sewer plant. Talking of Marysville, experts speak that even here they might have to shell out as much as one million dollars and drill a well. This would in the end see flushing the dirty water underground to as much as 3,500 feet. The Osmosis treatment in the mean while continues to get high coverage from the media even as its fate is under the shadow.
