TSG Water Resources, a specialist in water and wastewater treatment facilities for the hospitality industry in Mexico and the Caribbean, has installed a 1.4 million gallon per day (5,400 m3/d) high-recovery seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) system in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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LAS CRUCES – Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland stopped in Las Cruces Wednesday to announce $12.6 million in funding for a new desalination research facility in Alamogordo, which will address the area’s PFAS contamination (Per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances).Â
LAS CRUCES – Remove salt to make drinkable, usable water – that’s the mission for a federally-owned desalination research facility in Alamogordo. The Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility or BGNDRF (big-EN-dorf) grants space for companies, government agencies and researchers to pilot-test their new processes for treating with variable salinity.
Haaland’s office said the Alamogordo facility would use the money to build an advanced water treatment facility and associated infrastructure in response to PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances) contamination that was discovered a few years ago. This, her office said, would restore access to the two contaminated brackish wells on the site and allow them to be used again and reduce the operational load on the other two wells.
The facility plans to use the allocated funding for an advanced water treatment facility to remove PFAS substances that were discovered at an evaporation pond in 2018 and two wells at the facility in 2019. The plan is to restore access to the two wells which would help lighten the load on the other two wells. Funding for the project comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The largest inland municipal desalination plant in Texas — the Kay Bailey Hutchison desalination plant in El Paso, with a design capacity of approximately 27.5 million gallons per day (30,800 acre-feet per year) — went into production in August 2007.
A source with knowledge of the proposal said the proposed desalination plant would be located on the Sea of Cortez in Mexico and the water would be pumped to Arizona, not traded in exchange for more Colorado River water as has been previously speculated. The proposal includes a first phase providing an estimated 300,000 acre-feet of water with two possible additional phases, the source said. The project, which would require federal approval, would also utilize solar power.Â