CHARLOTTE, NC — What its creators are calling the first man-made whitewater river in the world designed with a recirculating water supply will have its water disinfected by a closed-chamber, medium-pressure ultraviolet (UV) system, according to March 22 press release from the system's manufacturer, Aquionics.
The US National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, scheduled to open in May, will use UV equipment to treat city water and well water that it will then recirculate for use by kayakers; it will serve as the training ground for the US Olympic kayak team, the press release said.
The park water will first be pumped through a 130-micron disc filter to remove suspended solids and will then flow through the UV system to kill harmful bacteria and other organisms; the system is rated to treat flows of 8,000 to 9,000 gallons per minute, according to the release.
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