Located in the Atlanta metro area, Lawrenceville, Ga., is home to just over 28,000 people and is the county seat of Gwinnett County.
Lawrenceville used to purchase about 90 percent of its water supply from Gwinnett County, which pulls from nearby Lake Lanier. With the anticipated reduction in drinking water use from Lake Lanier, the ongoing drought in north Georgia, and in an attempt to become more water self sufficient, the City of Lawrenceville was looking for ways to re-open its Ezzard Road well which had been off line because of contamination from naturally occurring uranium.
A pilot test was run to confirm the treatment technology and to gain regulatory approval. Once the test was completed and state approval granted, Lawrenceville entered into an agreement with Water Remediation Technology (WRT) for the uranium treatment system and ongoing field services, which includes the safe, licensed disposal of the low level radioactive residuals.
The uranium removal system treats approximately 175,000 GPD at a raw water uranium level of approximately 70 µg/L and a flow rate of 130 GPM. This one well now accounts for approximately 8% of the City’s water needs.
As is typical of WRT’s radionuclide removal systems in other states, the uranium treatment system at the Ezzard Road well in Lawrenceville operates under WRT’s Radioactive Materials License. WRT worked with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in order to obtain the required Radioactive Material License for the storage, removal, and handling of natural radium and uranium from the state’s drinking water.
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