Big Pipes and Small Pipes
We’ve been busy digging into the earth the past few weeks setting the underground infrastructure as designed by HDR engineers for the Clark Well. Island Excavating has their top people on the job and the results show their years of experience and care for island infrastructure.
The piping network is not complicated for this treatment facility. We have water coming from the wellhead running into the building. That is called the raw water line. We also have a power connection and a communications connection running from the well to the building to power and monitor the well pump.
Exiting the building we have a pipeline that carries processed drinking water – we call that finished water. That exits the building after running through our filtration and chlorination process, and then it enters into a much larger pipe.
The biggest pipe in this treatment system is a 40 foot long, 24” around contact chamber designed to allow finished drinking water to mix with chlorine to ensure enough contact time has occurred between the water and the disinfectant. This process ensures that no pathogens enter our drinking water network.
Once the finished water has mixed in the contact chamber sufficiently, it exits into a smaller water main and enters our distribution network for the immediate use of our customers. Sweet and easy.
As the exterior of the building wraps up and the underground work comes to a close, the next stop is to build out the interior of the building, and start wiring the electrical components that will power and run our processing systems.