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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form <br />Form Revised nlav 2007 <br />Pilot Study Project Management <br />Management of the pilot project will be supervised by the American Water Works Research Foundation (Avv-\vaRF) <br />through a Project Advisory Committee (PAC) that will include members of the MTW and a representative of the <br />Colorado Department of Public Health and Enviromnent (CDPHE), the applicant for this grant request. This <br />oversight will provide a high level of assurance that any funds provided by the State of Colorado will be used to <br />produce high-quality information that can be used by Colorado drinking water utilities and other interested parties. <br />CDPHE, as the grantee and a member of the PAC, will assure that payment requests from AwNvaRF are complete <br />and meet the requirements of the CWCB process. An outline of the project structure is presented in Figure 1. <br />CWCB ZLD <br />AwwaRF ?- Consultant <br />Partners <br />Figure 1. Project Management Structure <br />Pilot Shady Approach <br />Pilot ,S'itec <br />Pilot testing will occur at two sites with two different water qualities for Colorado. The first site at the City- of <br />Brighton's RO Water Treatment Plant (WTP) will represent water quality indicative of the South Platte River <br />basin. The second site, located at the City of La Junta's RO WTP, characterizes typical Arkansas River basin <br />water. These plants have distinct water quality- challenges. In the case of Brighton, the concentrate disposal <br />challenge is caused by nitrate, whereas, in the case of La Junta, the challenge is caused by selenium. Brighton is a <br />rapidly growing community, in which increased municipal and industrial (M&I) demand is an ilnrnediate issue. La <br />Junta is representative of a small agricultural community with limited financial resources that must confront a <br />highIv technical and costly- disposal issue. These cormnunities are representative of the statewide concentrate <br />disposal issues facing utilities statewide. <br />Relationship to On-goingStudies <br />A similar pilot study is being implemented by East Chem Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (ECCV) <br />under a CWCB grant. The ECCV project will test a proprietary higher recovery, secondary- RO process developed <br />by CDM, crystallizers, and the proprietary Vibratory Shear Enhanced Processing (VSEP) membrane by New <br />Logic Research, Inc. While providing information that is important for evaluating ZLD processes, the ECCV pilot <br />focuses on issues specific to ECCV. As such, the evaluation is limited to a single water quality, evaluates only <br />MTW ZLD Application - Submitted <br />13