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Goodyear approves $9.2 million share of contract to send brine to Palo Verde for cooling use
Summary
City council approved an engineering, procurement and construction agreement to deliver reverse-osmosis brine to the Palo Verde nuclear power plant, freeing roughly 800,000 gallons per day of reclamation capacity; Goodyear’s share is about $9.2 million and the vote was 7-0.
Goodyear City Council on March 3 approved an engineering, procurement and construction agreement that will allow the city to deliver brine — the concentrated byproduct from reverse-osmosis water treatment — to the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station for use in its cooling system. The council approved the agreement and related authorizations by a 7-0 vote.
The agreement, described to council by Barbara Chappell, Goodyear’s Water Services Director, covers final procurement of equipment and construction of improvements at Palo Verde that will accept the city’s brine. “It’s poor quality water that’s a byproduct of our treatments,”…
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