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Napa Valley: Working to make wastewater ponds go away

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 9, 2010 at 6:25 am

From the Napa Valley Register:

“Two Napa firms have joined forces with the idea of greatly reducing the size of winery wastewater ponds, or possibly eliminating them from the valley’s landscape.

Riechers Spence & Associates and Heritage Systems, both of Napa, have put their heads together and come up with a way to reuse as many as 10 times the processed wash water at wineries. The result is Kantharos Process Water Systems, a joint venture of Hugh Linn, president of the consulting civil engineering firm Riechers Spence, and Michael Long, president of Heritage Systems Inc., a waste water specialist that provides water monitoring for wineries.

“We think we can make ponds go away,” Linn said. “That technology is 50 years old.”

Linn and Long estimate a 100,000-gallon winery can save half a million gallons of water per year with this technology. … “

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February 9, 2010 · Filed Under Northern California

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