Press releases

September, 2004
Sandy Point, St. Kitts
TSG announces contract for 1.25 MGD reverse osmosis desalination plant for Sandy Point, St. Kitts.

July, 2004
Elysian/Bluebeard
TSG Technologies, Inc. completes upgrade of two wastewater plants to provide tertiary treatment.

July, 2004
St. Kitts/Anguilla
TSG completes one 1.25 MGD reverse osmosis desalination plant and begins another.

New Projects

JEA
Nassau County Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility

JEA (Jacksonville, Florida) provides electric, water and sewer services to more than one million people on Florida's First Coast. It is the largest municipal electric utility in Florida, and it operates the second largest water and sewer system in Florida.

When JEA was planning upgrades to three of their wastewater treatment plants they contract TSG to help identify the best treatment technology for expanding each plant.

JEA was considering using membrane bioreactors (MBRs) for these plants but had no experience with this technology. They called on TSG to evaluate the feasibility of MBRs and to compare it with conventional wastewater treatment systems. As a result of this study, JEA elected to expand the Nassau County Regional WWTF with MBRs. They contracted TSG to prepare a preliminary design for submittal to FDEP for permitting and to assist JEA in the preparation of design/build specifications for this 2 mgd nutrient removal facility. Three membrane systems were pre-qualified for bidding, Zenon ZeeWeed, USFilter Memcor, and Enviroquip Kubota. The selected design-build team is using the Kubota system.

TSG has worked closely with both FDEP and JEA to help oversee permitting and implementation of this state of the art technology. This project is the first MBR system to be permitted by the Northeastern District of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and one of the first MBR systems permitted to provide advanced nutrient removal as well as public access reuse.

1.25 MGD Royal St. Kitts Desalination Project

TSG Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TSG Water Resources, Inc., has completed the design, construction, and commissioning of a 1.25 million gallon per day seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant on the island of St. Kitts under a design-build agreement with developers based in Toronto, Canada.

The plant provides both potable and irrigation water for the Marriott St. Kitts Royal Beach Resort and Spa, a 648 room hotel with an 18 hole golf course. The plant has been initially fitted with four trains of 250,000 gallon per day each for a total capacity of 1,000,000 gallons per day. The plant is designed so that a fifth train may be added to bring the total capacity to 1.25 million gallons per day.

The project has the following significant features:

• Pre-assembly of major subsystems in Gainesville, Florida to permit rapid equipment installation;
• Use of open seawater intake and inland pump station;
• First use of large diameter, fiberglass media filters;
• Pressure exchanger energy recovery equipment for extremely efficient operation;
• Inland lake flushing utilizing membrane brine and fresh seawater; and
• Web based remote monitoring capability

Southlake Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades

Southlake is a residential community southwest of Orlando, Florida. This community has been experiencing tremendous growth in recent years and has outstripped the capacity of its water and wastewater plants. The owner approached TSG to assist it with the upgrades and expansions of these plants.

The expansion of the wastewater plant involves a rehab of its existing tanks. TSG has been retained to handle all of the necessary design and permitting work and will be providing construction management for the entire project.

Tenemos Anguilla, A St. Regis Retreat

As an integral part of the design team, TSG was asked by Flag Anguilla Luxury Properties, LLC to design and construct a 1.25 million gallon per day reverse osmosis desalination plant to support a new St. Regis luxury golf resort planned for Anguilla, British West Indies. This resort will include an 18-hole golf course designed by Greg Norman, a St. Regis Retreat and luxury condominiums and individual residences. The plant will have the flexibility of producing up to 480,000 gallons per day of potable water, with the remainder being used for irrigation. All piping and pumping systems to the plant will be designed and installed by TSG. The RO building was designed by TSG and is now under construction by the owner. Equipment fabrication is underway, with installation scheduled to begin in September 2004.

For more information on this project, please see the Tenemos Anguilla case study.

TSG Newsletter "Water Treatment News"

July, 2004