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Waukesha Water Utility testing clean-water system
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The Waukesha Water Utility , in partnership with two Milwaukee colleges, is testing emerging clean-water technology that removes potentially cancer-causing radium from Waukesha's drinking water.
The technology has proved to be effective in reducing radium levels by 60% to 90%, which could provide Waukesha a temporary fix until it finds another water source, possibly Lake Michigan.

But the technology has a potential problem, utility manager Dan Duchniak said. That’s where the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Civil Engineering Department becomes involved. The possible fix is that the utility gets into the aggregate business.

Along with radium, the system from Procorp Enterprises of Wauwatosa removes calcium, a substance that hardens water and ruins water pipes and plumbing fixtures.

The system compresses byproduct calcium into pellets, which contain low levels of radium, he said. Other industrial byproducts such as fly ash and slag also contain radium and are converted into byproduct reuse, a Procorp report on the project says.
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