Reject Water Disposal

One of the waste products of the treatment process is a concentrated brine which is discharged from the membrane plant. This concentrate is, as the name implies, a concentrated solution of the salts and other minerals removed from the raw water. The concentrate is disposed through a pipeline to Hollywood's Southern Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, where it is mixed with that plants effluent to dilute the concentration, and then disposed of in the ocean. When utilizing the Biscayne aquifer water, about 10% of the water treated is disposed as concentrate and with the Floridan aquifer water, about 20% of the water treated is disposed as concentrate.

The tour is now done. So let's go back to the start.