{"id":100,"date":"2016-07-08T21:03:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-09-10T01:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T01:20:05","slug":"valdosta-georgia-whats-in-your-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/08\/valdosta-georgia-whats-in-your-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta, Georgia&#8230;..  What&#8217;s in Your Water???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While researching Valdosta, Georgia&#8217;s water treatment, I found some interesting things&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source #1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/water-treatment-plant\">Click Here <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source #2 &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostacity.com\/Data\/Sites\/1\/media\/depts\/utilities\/2015-water-quality-report.pdf\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VALDASTA A City Without Limits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How is Your Water Treated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The City of Valdosta Water Treatment Plant uses the latest available technology to provide safe and good tasting water for its customers.&nbsp; Expansions of the facility to 22.5 million gallons per day (MGD) and upgrading of all equipment was completed in 2007.&nbsp; The treatment process includes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Air stripping towers to physically remove hydrogen sulfide;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ozone treatment<\/strong> to oxidize organics and sulfides and to provide primary disinfection;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chemical addition<\/strong> to stabilize the pH of the treated water;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phosphate<\/strong> addition to provide corrosion control;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sodium hypochlorite<\/strong> addition to provide final disinfection and provide a disinfection residual until the water is used by the customer;<\/li>\n<li>Treated water is stored on-site and pumped to the customer as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Fluoride (ppm)<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Water additive that promotes strong teeth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Trihalomethanes &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Byproduct of drinking water chlorination <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Haloacetic Acids &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Byproduct of drinking water chlorination&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free Chlorine &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Chemical added for disinfection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some interesting info, wouldn&#8217;t you say Valdosta???? Do you realize what you are drinking?????<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching Valdosta, Georgia&#8217;s water treatment, I found some interesting things&#8230;. Source #1 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Click Here Source #2 &nbsp; &nbsp;Click Here VALDASTA A City Without Limits How is Your Water Treated The City of Valdosta Water Treatment Plant uses the latest available technology to provide safe and good tasting water for its customers.&nbsp; Expansions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,10,9,13,12,6],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-in-your-water","tag-chemicals","tag-chloramine","tag-chlorine","tag-fluoride","tag-lime-softening","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsecrets.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}