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T1: Collection Systems and Water Reuse Tour: Wastewater Not Wasted
Track: Facility Tour When: Monday, October 12, 2009, 12:30pm - 5:00pm
Where: TBD
Cost - $50.00
The City of Orlando, Orange County Utilities, and the Water Environment Federation’s Collection Systems and Water Reuse Committees invite you to a demonstration of Orange County's collection system management tools and tour of Water Conserv II, the largest agricultural reclaimed water reuse facility in the world. Jointly owned by the City of Orlando and Orange County, Conserv II has taken a liability (effluent previously discharged to surface water bodies) and turned it into an asset (reclaimed water) that benefits the city, county, and agricultural community.
The tour will feature Orange County’s South Water Reclamation Facility, where participants will be provided an overview of the county’s collection system and voluntary capacity, management, operations, and maintenance (CMOM) program, including improvements to the geographical information system (GIS), supervisory control and data acquisition, and emergency response systems. The collection system includes gravity sewers, forcemains, and 700 pumping stations. Many of the recent upgrades, including GIS tools and an emergency response system, were developed during and following recovery from three hurricanes within a nine week period in 2004. The facility includes 745-kW (1000-hp) effluent pumps that transmit reclaimed water 32 km (20 miles) to the Conserv II distribution facility.
Additionally, participants will visit the Conserv II distribution facility, touring the reclamation facilities and experiencing an overview of the process and treatment and distribution of reclaimed water on site. The reclaimed water that is not used for irrigation is distributed to rapid infiltration basins (RIBs). The RIB network contains eight sites, with 71 RIBs over a total of 1507 ha (3725 ac). Both the distribution network and RIB site network are monitored and controlled from a central computerized control system. In the case of the RIB network, system operations take place through a computerized management system. Known as the groundwater operational control system, it allows operations personnel to forecast effects on the groundwater system of loading individual or groups of RIBs.
