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Nauvoo, IL Water Treatment Plant

Engineer: Poepping, Stone, Bach, & Associates

Contractor: Leander Construction

Hydro-Kinetics is implementing ProMinent chemical feed pumps into the Nauvoo Water Treatment Plant. Chemicals that the ProMinent pumps will feed include alum, cationic & anionic polymers, sulfuric acid, orthophosphate, potassium permanganate, fluoride, and ammonium sulfate. Saf-T-Flo will provide the injection quills that actually send the chemicals into the water stream.

Hydro-Kinetics will also be supplying a Gorman-Rupp backwash pump skid. that will pump approximately 2000 gpm against 66 feet of total dynamic head. The skid will contain Gorman-Rupp T8 pumps. Two vertical inline centrifugal pumps by Patterson Pumps will also be supplied by Hydro-Kinetics. They will pump approximately 400 gpm against 262 feet of total dynamic head. An APCO vacuum priming system will also be supplied.

Rotork also has equipment on this job in the form of Pakscan cards. These devices control the position and actions of the valves in the water plant. The installation of Pakscan technology will create a network among the valves of the plant. Networking the valves will make it very simple to activate any valve from one location. Rotork will also be supplying IQT actuators that are coupled with ValMatic valves.

Infilco Degremont will be supplying a Packaged Gravity Filter, and they will also be rehabbing a current NS Accelator installation at the plant. Pieces to be replaced or rehabbed include, the mechanism & walkway, the impeller drive, sludge blowdown valves, drain valves, and piping.

Healy-Ruff will be handling all the water treatment plant controls for this job. They have the very difficult task of networking every vital part of the plant. The controls aspect is the most important from a functional standpoint; however, Healy-Ruff handles things with a very cooperative, team-driven effort that should certainly get the plant online after start-up.

Currently the Nauvoo Water Treatment Plant is likely looking at a summer 2008 start-up.