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Faced with a stringent total organic carbon (TOC) permit limit of 3 mg/L for its new effluent disposal site, the town of Oak Bluffs, Mass., has been exploring technologies to identify the most reliable and cost-effective process to achieve the required effluent TOC limits. The Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR) uses TOC as a surrogate for contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) such as endocrine-disrupting compounds, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, and thus TOC removal is used by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to measure the effective removal of emerging contaminants. Technologies explored for this project include reverse osmosis, activated carbon, advanced oxidation, and several coagulation processes. The focus of the current work is on a pretreatment coagulation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oasys Water Inc of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, has announced that it is commercialising a high performance forward osmosis (FO) membrane as a next step towards the introduction of disruptive, lower-cost desalination and water reuse technology. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In the USA, Koch Membrane Systems Inc (KMS) of Wilmington, Massachusetts, has been selected to provide its Fluid Systems TFC reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for use in the municipal water treatment plant based in the town of Davie in Florida. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]