Evoqua Selected by City of Bakersfield, CA to Help City Continue to Provide Clean Drinking Water

Evoqua to Supply Granular Activated Carbon
(GAC) Systems for the removal of 1,2,3-Trichloropropane (TCP); Total
Value of $7.8 Million

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. & PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Evoqua Water Technologies has been selected by the City of Bakersfield,
CA to help the city continue to provide clean drinking water to its
residents. Evoqua will provide 42 granular activated carbon (GAC) vessel
systems to the City at a total value of $7.8 million. The vessels will
be connected to the city’s existing drinking water wells in order to
remove TCP, allowing the city to continue to deliver clean drinking
water to its residents.

TCP is now a regulated synthetic organic contaminant in the state of
California and it has been identified as a cancer-causing compound. Soil
fumigants, containing TCP as an impurity, were widely used in the
agricultural area surrounding Bakersfield, the country’s 52^nd
most populous city. Exposure to TCP in water can occur through drinking,
cooking, and inhaling water vapor.

This upgrade to 30 of the city’s 64 wells will allow removal of TCP to a
level which complies with the recently adopted California Maximum
Contaminant Level of 5 parts-per-trillion.

For more information on Evoqua’s GAC Systems, visit www.evoqua.com/activatedcarbon.

Contacts

Evoqua
Kevin G. Lowery
724-772-1527 (office)
724-719-1475
(mobile)
[email protected]