City of Winkler | 7 explains that old plant simply couldn’t handle the processing requirements for this water. Fortunately, a funding strategy shared by the city as well as the provincial and federal governments through the auspices of Stimulus Funding helped pave the way for the new reverse osmosis water treatment plant. As Botha’s office provided planning, some design services and all the project engineering, Winkler also worked with firms such as H20 Innovation (an industry leader in the providing of customized, state-of-the-art water treatment solutions) as well as the consulting firm of Tower Engineering Group who was tasked with structural, mechanical and electrical elements of the job. Cornerstone Construction of Morden was the General Contractor. They system draws water currently from nine wells which are drilled into the Aquifer, of which one is drawing water from the deep brackish zoneThe water is treated before going into a 1400m3 balancing tank where it is then partly distributed throughout the community. The plant is functioning 24 hours a day, and the water not being used from this plant during low demand is forced to the City’s big 9ML storage reservoir from where
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