California city of Bakersfield selects Evoqua to provide clean drinking water to residents

Bakersfield city of California has selected Evoqua Water Technologies to help it continue to provide clean drinking water to its residents.

Evoqua will offer 42 granular activated carbon (GAC) vessel systems to the city at a value of $7.8m.

The vessels will be linked to the city’s existing drinking water wells in order to remove TCP, enabling the city to continue to offer clean drinking water to its residents.

TCP is a regulated synthetic organic contaminant in California state and it has been identified as a cancer-causing compound.

Soil fumigants, containing TCP as an impurity, were  used in the agricultural area surrounding Bakersfield, which is the country’s 52nd most populous city. Exposure to TCP in water can occur through drinking, cooking, and inhaling water vapour.

This upgrade to 30 of the city’s 64 wells will enable TCP removal to a level that complies with the recently adopted California Maximum Contaminant Level of 5 parts-per-trillion.

 

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