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US Municipal Desalination Plants
This submission presents results and observations from a series of surveys of US municipal desalination plants conducted during the last 20 years. The surveys were conducted to determine the number, characteristics, and concentrate disposal practices of US desalination plants. Each survey was intended to identify and contact each US plant that produces 25,000 gpd or more. This cutoff eliminated smaller plants that serve truck stops, mobile home parks, hospitals, campgrounds, etc. Succeeding surveys did not undertake to recontact all previously contacted plants but focused primarily on plants built since the initial survey.
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| description | This submission presents results and observations from a series of surveys of US municipal desalination plants conducted during the last 20 years. The surveys were conducted to determine the number, characteristics, and concentrate disposal practices of US desalination plants. Each survey was intended to identify and contact each US plant that produces 25,000 gpd or more. This cutoff eliminated smaller plants that serve truck stops, mobile home parks, hospitals, campgrounds, etc. Succeeding surveys did not undertake to recontact all previously contacted plants but focused primarily on plants built since the initial survey. |
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"description": "This report by the U.S. Department of the Interior lists the desalination plant facilities throughout the U.S. Each facility is detailed with its name, owner, purpose, type of desalination technology, treatment capacity and process, waste management, and post-treatment."
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| DOI | 10.7481/1787564 |
| identifier | https://data.openei.org/submissions/6462 |
| issued | 2018-08-31T06:00:00Z |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| modified | 2025-08-13T14:15:22Z |
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