BMMD Water Treatment Services
All of the water treatment facilities for Battlement Mesa are owned and operated by the Battlement Mesa Metropolitan District, (BMMD). These water treatment facilities are critical to the health and well-being of all residents.
Water Treatment Services Staff: (Click on employee name for photo)
| Employee | Job Title | Employee | Job Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ted Anderson | Utility Foreman | Rich Kilgroe | Water Plant Operator |
| Kathy Miller | Laboratory Technician | David Mount | Distribution Technician |
Photo: (At left) The Battlement Mesa Metropolitan District water treatment facility, Battlement Mesa, Colorado.
BMMD's Waste Water Treatment
Laboratory
General Description of Water Treatment Operations
River Intake
This station, which is capable of pumping 9,000,000 gallons of water per day, pumps water from the Colorado River to our Raw Water Reservoir.
Raw Water Reservoir
The raw water reservoir stores the untreated water and allows silt and mud to settle out before the water is treated. At capacity, the raw water reservoir can store approximately 13,000,000 gallons of water. The relatively large storage capacity enables the district to shut off the river pumps in the event there was a spill into the Colorado River that posed a potential hazard to the district's raw water supply without requiring the district to reduce or curtail the delivery of water to the residents of Battlement Mesa.
Clarifiers
These units are where the chemicals are allowed to do their job of settling particuate matter out of the water. Here the Aluminum Sulfate, Polymer and Activiated Carbon are removed from the process and the clear water goes to the Filter Building.
Filter Building
The BMMD plant uses Multi-Media Filters to remove any particulates that do not settle out in the clarifiers. These filters use gravity to pull the water thrugh the media. The media consists of Under Drain Tiles at the bottom, then a layer of gravel, a layer of garnet (a course sand), a layer of finer sand and a layer of anthracite (crushed coal).
When the filters become clogged with particulate matter, they are backwashed with treated water to remove the filter material and then the filters can be and are returned to service.
Clearwell
This device collects the filtered water to be pumped into the distribution system. In the final step, chlorine gas is added into the clearwell for disinfection.