Cache Creek Casino Resort, California, is owned and operated by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation. When the tribe installed an 18-hole golf course, the water needs of the resort increased and HydroScience Engineers were brought in to design and engineer a desalination plant to treat the golf course’s groundwater while minimizing waste.
Aquadyne Associates advised HydroScience to use New Logic’s Vibratory Shear Enhanced Process (VSEP) and Cache Creek’s 650,000 gallon per day desalination plant is now fully operational.
Cache Creek desalination plant contains a hollow fiber prefiltration system to remove suspended solids, an electrodialysis reversal system (EDR) to remove salts and hardness, and a VSEP vibrating membrane system to reduce the EDR brine volume. The VSEP system is able to recover 90% of the EDR brine as clean water for reuse, thus increasing overall recovery and dramatically reducing brine hauling costs.
Greg Johnson, CEO of New Logic Research said: "Water management and brine disposal is becoming an increasingly important issue in California. With less water to go around for farmers and industry, people are increasingly turning to secondary water sources. Just as the trend is toward alternative energy sources, the future in California will require alternative water sources, and we’re proud to be on the ground floor of this effort.”
