Wastewater Treatment Plant

The raw water is delivered to the headworks of the water treatment plant where the first of 5 major unit water treatment processes start the treatment to make the water safe to drink. The 5 major unit processes include chemical coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection (described below).Raw water must be treated or clarified prior to being used as makeup water in most utility processes. Clarification removes suspended and dissolved solids, bacteria, and other forms of impurities to help prevent system scale, corrosion, and fouling.Claim: Raw water is not tainted by chlorine. Facts: Treated water does contain trace amounts of disinfectants such as chlorine. This ensures your drinking water does not contain parasites, bacteria, and viruses. water that has not been purified. for raw water, there's the Mississippi river at your factory door Time. : water that has not been distilled (as for use in making ice)