Work Continues at Well #5

Work continues at Well #5 installing Elburn's third trace radium removal system. The facilities at Wells #3 and #4 are both completed and online. Each of these facilities were constructed utilizing a single tall filtering vessel. Well #5 incorporates the tandem vessel configuration shown in the picture above.

Once completed the vessels are filled with Zeolite, a proprietary medium that absorbs the trace levels of radium found in our deep well aquifers like a giant sponge.

The Zeolite is incredibly efficient at removing trace levels of radium from the water. Even with the high volumes of water that flow through the vessels, the Zeolite only needs to be rotated and replenished on a yearly basis.

Many people have asked me what was the biggest challenge I faced being the mayor of Elburn. This is it! Getting the trace levels of radium out of our water supply was a huge, and largely overlooked and unheralded, challenge.

It's easy to nit-pick the Village Board, and presume to tell them what they are doing wrong. This was a project with tremendous long-term implications for our village. I think they handled this one right.