- 15 November 2007 -

£5.2 million contract to upgrade water treatment plant

Earth Tech Inc, a business unit of Tyco International Ltd has been awarded a £5.2 million contract by Yorkshire Water to upgrade the Albert Water Treatment Plant in West Yorkshire, UK.

The Earth Tech joint venture will install a new Magnetic Ion Exchange (MIEX) System that will increase the plant's efficiency while lowering operating costs. The MIEX system works by filtering moor land water to remove the manganese and reduce the colour and organic compounds before distribution into the local water supply. This will be the first installation of MIEX in the UK, but the process has been successfully used for water treatment applications in Australia, New Zealand and the US.

The Albert Water Treatment Plant supplies 14.5 million gallons (55 million litres) of water to 195,400 people in Halifax and the surrounding Calderdale area. Earth Tech's improvements will mean that the treatment plant will produce higher-quality water that will be guaranteed for the next 20 years.

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