City of Cape Coral

We encourage public interest and participation in our network’s choices affecting ingesting water. City Council conferences are held each other Monday at 4:30 P.M. At City Hall Council Chambers. The public is welcome. The upcoming schedule is published at the bulletin board at City Hall or available on-line at capecoral.Net. If you've got any questions about this report or concerning your water software please contact Andrew Fenske, Water Production Manager, at 239-242-3410 or Robert Woods, Southwest RO Plant Chief Operator, at 239-574-0877. Treatment Plant History The City of Cape Coral Southwest Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant is the oldest constantly operating RO remedy facility inside the international. The original plant changed into built-in 1977 with a 3 million gallon in line with day (MGD) production functionality to complement the town's current Lime Softening Treatment Plant (2 MGD). In 1980, the town accelerated the ability to five MGD. At that point, the City became experiencing issues with it's Lime Softening Plant due to saltwater intrusion into the wellfield (Upper Hawthorn Aquifer). The City also changed into experiencing a fast increase in the populace. Faced with those two troubles, the town determined to desert the Lime Softening Plant and initiate a prime growth of the RO Plant. Cape Coral would be the first city of considerable length in the United States to make the choice to rely completely on opposite osmosis treatment as its only method of producing potable water. The decision paid off. By 1985, the metropolis had the most important low-stress reverse osmosis plant in the world, able to generate 15 MGD. The plant turned into generating water at a price that becomes less expensive than the Lime Softening Plant and it had tapped right into source water deliver (Upper Floridan Aquifer) that might provide sufficient water for decades to come back. Although manufacturing functionality remained equal for extra than twenty years, many modifications happened at the plant in the course of that point. The metropolis kept pace with converting technology and completed many enhancements and retrofits. These era enhancements blanketed: extra efficient low-pressure membranes, variable frequency drives, pc automation, and so forth. Despite being the oldest plant of its type, those changes allowed the plant to continue to be a "state of the art" facility producing high high-quality potable water at a reasonable fee. Due to a speedy boom in the populace and a planned most important enlargement of the utility carrier location, the metropolis started layout paintings in 2005 to make bigger the production capacity of the Southwest Plant from 15 MGD to 18 MGD. This expanded capability might make sure that the city had an enough deliver of potable water till a further RO Plant will be designed and constructed inside the northern a part of the metropolis. The growth at the existing plant turned into finished in 2008. The new North RO Plant (12 MGD) turned into finished and on-line by way of March of 2010. The addition of this new plant is now allowing for a lot of wished primary upkeep, repairs, and retrofits at the forty 12 months old Southwest RO Plant that couldn't be initiated until additional production ability at the device becomes to be had. Water Source The supply of the City of Cape Coral’s municipal potable water delivers is groundwater from the Upper Floridan Aquifer. Local geologists have envisioned that this aquifer has an enough deliver of water to support the destiny boom of Cape Coral. The recharge areas for the Upper Floridan Aquifer had been determined to be a place encompassing the north-critical part of Florida. Source water currently being used by both RO Plants has been estimated to be greater than 10,000 years old, based totally on underground glide fees of inches per 12 months. Because of its mineral content, brackish water is the term used to describe the exceptional of the supply water. Minerals are compounds normally discovered in nature, like salts. The number of minerals discovered in water is expressed as dissolved solids. The town’s supply water has a total dissolved solids (TDS) content of about 2,000 parts per million (ppm), in preference to the TDS of seawater, which is approximately 35,000 ppm. There are fifty-five wells at an intensity of about seven-hundred to 800 feet that tap this water supply. The wellfield for the Southwest RO Plant has 33 wells placed in the southwestern a part of the town. Wells are placed across the plant grounds and in or near the medians of Agualinda Boulevard, Chiquita Boulevard, Gleason Parkway, and Trafalgar Parkway. The wellfield for the North RO Plant has 22 wells located in the northern a part of the town. Wells are positioned across the plant grounds and in masses near Kismet Parkway, Diplomat Parkway, Chiquita Boulevard North, and Del Prado Boulevard North. In 2017 the Department of Environmental Protection carried out a Source Water Assessment on our device. The assessment became conducted to offer records approximately any ability assets of infection in the location of our wells. There are 13 ability resources of infection recognized for our gadget with low to high susceptibility ranges. The assessment results are to be had on the Annual Consumer Report on the Quality of Tap Water for 2017 Page 3 the FDEP Source Water Assessment and Protection Program website at dep.Nation.Fl.Us/swapp. The depth of the Upper Floridan Aquifer, the significant confining layers of earth above it, our stringent nicely production methods, and our wellhead protection program, assist to guard our source water against man-made contaminants. The important remedy requirement for our supply water is the discount of the happening overall dissolved solids. The reverse osmosis treatment system does this very effectively. We encourage public hobby and participation in our community’s decisions affecting consuming water. City Council meetings are held each different Monday at four:30 P.M. At City Hall Council Chambers. The public is welcome. The upcoming time table is posted at the bulletin board at City Hall or to be had online at capecoral.Net. If you've got any questions about this report or regarding your water software please touch Andrew Fenske, Water Production Manager, at 239-242-3410 or Robert Woods, Southwest RO Plant Chief Operator, at 239-574-0877. Treatment Plant History The City of Cape Coral Southwest Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant is the oldest continuously operating RO remedy facility within the world. The unique plant turned into built-in 1977 with a 3 million gallon according to day (MGD) manufacturing capability to complement the town's current Lime Softening Treatment Plant (2 MGD). In 1980, the city multiplied the power t.

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