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Conservation Newsletter
Public
Works & Utilities
Connection Newsletter
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Melbourne's
Water
Supply and Distribution |
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Water Demands |
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The average daily water demand for the City's system is approximately
15.2 million gallons per day, with a maximum demand flow rate of 19 million gallons per
day and a maximum peak hourly demand of approximately 24.1 million gallons per day.
These demand conditions are met by two water treatment facilities with two ground
storage tanks, five elevated storage tanks, and three booster pump stations with on-site storage
facilities. Melbourne's
water quality continues to exceed the standards set forth by both
the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the State Department of Environmental
Protection.
Melbourne's water has fluoride added, which meets the optimum fluoride level
guidelines as required by law.
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Two Plants Meet Customers' Water
Needs |
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The City's two water treatment facilities include the
John A. Buckley
Surface
Water Treatment Plant and the
Joe
Mullins Reverse Osmosis
(R/O) Treatment Facility. The permitted peak capacity of the surface WTP is
20.0 MGD. The capacity of the R/O plant is 6.5 MGD when 1.5 MGD of raw well water is blended
with R/O product water. As a result, the total drinking water capacity now available is
26.5 MGD. Currently, the average daily demand is being met through the
production and blending of 11.4 MGD of water from the surface WTP and 3.8 MGD of water from the R/O
WTP.
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Floridan Aquifer Provides
Groundwater Source |
The Joe Mullins Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment
Plant was put into operation in 1995 with a 6.5 MGD
capacity and a 4.0 million gallon ground water storage tank. The R/O WTP's raw water
supply is obtained from three Floridan Aquifer
wells at close to 850 feet underground. Each yields approximately 3.1 million gallons per
day.
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Lake Washington Provides Surface
Source |
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Water treated at the
John A. Buckley Surface
Water Treatment Plant
is pumped from the
Lake Washington
Surface Water Treatment Plant, which is the
third uppermost of the naturally connected upper St. Johns River lakes. The lake is one of the few surface
water supplies of drinking water in Florida.
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