ASCE will be sunsetting the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) in the coming months. We encourage you to start using the ASCE Library to perform content searches. In the ASCE Library, you can save your search results as well as receive email content alerts when new content relevant to your area of interest is published. Try it out today at https://ascelibrary.org.

 

Newport News: Brackish Water Gets Fresh

by William B. Suratt, P.E., Envir. Engr.; Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.,
Gary A. St. John, P.E., Envir. Engr.; Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.,
Ronald E. Harris, Water Resour. Proj. Mgr.; Newport News Waterworks, Newport News, Va.,


Serial Information: Civil Engineering—ASCE, 1997, Vol. 67, Issue 7, Pg. 55-57


Document Type: Feature article

Abstract:

Rapid growth was straining freshwater supplies in Newport News, Virginia. Studies showed Newport News Waterworks that they could be facing a 30 mgd deficit by 2040 and ran a 50% chance of depleting existing supplies through 2005. Since surface supplies are difficult to develop, Newport News Waterworks and its consultant Camp Dresser & McKee, Cambridge, Mass., decided to look not around, but down for its new water source. In 1995, the Waterworks began a pilot program to determine the potential for drawing and desalting up to 7 mgd from the local Upper and Middle Potomac aquifers. Test showed that a reverse osmosis plant could desalinate water at competitive prices, so in May, Newport News Waterworks began construction on a $13 million project that will feature a plant, six production wells and eleven monitor wells. The project is scheduled for completion in August 1998.

Subject Headings: Wells (water) | Water supply | Project management | Fresh water | Scheduling | Salt water | Pricing

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search