PILOT TESTING THE HABERER PROCESS IN THE UNITED-STATES

Perhaps for the first time in the United States, the Haberer process was shown in a Shreveport, La., pilot unit to be capable of flocculating and removing solids from a turbid surface water (contact flocculation) and of simultaneously treating the water with powdered activated carbon (PAC) to remove soluble organic compounds. The overall reduction in trihalomethane formation potential was 63-66 percent when PAC was used in the system, but it is expected that even greater reductions could be achieved if either the type or the dosage of PAC was optimized.