ION-EXCHANGE - A COST-EFFECTIVE ALTERNATIVE FOR REDUCING RADIUM

The first project under the US Environmental Protection Agency's small systems technology initiative, which was designed to generate simpler treatment technologies for small systems, has been completed. At Quai l Creek, located about 60 mi northwest of Austin, Texas, ion exchange was used to reduce radium concentrations in the well water. Although t he project was successful, the authors caution that this technology ma y not be universally applicable to small systems because of certain si te-specific advantages held by this system.