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Greensboro plant gets new filtering technology
- Taft Wireback
- Oct 6, 2018
- Oct 6, 2018
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- Tim Rickard
Greensboro’s new “powdered activated carbon” machine removes PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds from water.
- H. Scott Hoffmann/News & Record//
Chemco representative Ray Arvizu shows some of the PAC Feed basics to plant operator John Loy on Wednesday afternoon at Greensboro’s Mitchell Water Plant. The city is leasing the new equipment from Pennsylvania-based Chemco.
- Taft Wireback/News & Record
A crane lifts an 800-pound bag of carbon into place at Mitchell Water Treatment Plant.
- Taft Wireback/News & Record/
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GREENSBORO — The city water department is embarking on a long, costly effort to counteract pollution from firefighting foams that apparently have accumulated over the years in part of the city’s watershed.
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