Transcript Determining West Basin Treatment Plant`s Ability to Consistently

Determining West Basin Treatment Plant’s
Ability to Consistently Produce Drinking
Quality Water from Wastewater
Joseph Dooling
Mentor: Dr. John Dorsey
Problem: Climate Change
Pagán, Brianna R. et al. “Extreme Hydrological Changes in the Southwestern US Drive
Reductions in Water Supply to Southern California by Mid Century.” Environmental
Research Letters 11.9 (2016): 94026. Institute of Physics. Web.
Problem: Climate Change
Problem: Climate Change
Solution: Water Reuse
“Water Reuse” Orange County Water District, 27 October
2016,“http://www.ocwd.com/what-we-do/water-reuse/”
IPR
http://angeles.sierraclub.org/sites/angeles.sierraclub.org/files/images/
wasterwatertreatment.jpg
DPR
DDW Briefing on Draft DPR Report to the CA Legislature.” Watereuse, 10 Oct.
2016
Question
 Does the current wastewater treatment system in Los
Angeles have the ability to facilitate Direct Potable
Reuse?
 If not, Where does the current system fail?
Gas Chromatography/ Mass
Spectrometry Testing
“Water Reuse” Orange County Water District, 27 October
2016,“http://www.ocwd.com/what-we-do/water-reuse/”
References

DDW Briefing on Draft DPR Report to the CA Legislature.” Watereuse, 10 Oct. 2016,
https://watereuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20160920-DPR-Feasibility-Reportpresentation-only-Bartson-Barnard-Hultquist-Bernados-others-Copy.pdf

Pagán, Brianna R. et al. “Extreme Hydrological Changes in the Southwestern US Drive
Reductions in Water Supply to Southern California by Mid Century.” Environmental Research
Letters 11.9 (2016): 94026. Institute of Physics. Web.

“Water Reuse” Orange County Water District, 27 October 2016,“http://www.ocwd.com/what-wedo/water-reuse/”