Water Treatment Tests Showing Success

By Gloria Masoner

Cities across the country are experiencing water contamination. Some have high nitrate content, some have high uranium and some have high arsenic levels, but the city of McCook is experiencing a unique problem -- its water is high in all three.

That situation has presented a special problem to engineers developing the city's water treatment system, but a new test pilot study is proving to be effective in removing all three contaminants.

The study is being conducted at the city's water shop on South Street. The mini-treatment plant was developed specifically for the city of McCook.

It is the first the first of its kind to remove all three contaminants with a single pass. The unit includes a "cation" filter to remove the calcium deposits (hardness) from the water, then that filtered water is then passed through the "anion" unit to remove the contaminants.