City of Springfield Pond To Land Water Treatment Municipal
Pond Reclamation & Land Use: Treating What the Basin Leaves Behind
Secondary treated wastewater stored in open basins accumulates algal growth over time, degrading water quality and limiting how that water can be reused. The City of Springfield needed a solution that could treat basin water daily, clean up algal contamination, and bring the output to land application standard — without disrupting existing operations.
We deployed the Ginseng to do exactly that. The system treats directly from the basin, handles the biological and organic load that open storage creates, and returns clean, reusable water on a continuous basis.
The bench scale results confirmed by Pace Lab testing tell the story clearly.
BOD Reduction
Over 91% BOD reduction — permeate with pretreatment dropped to just 2.0 mg/L. Without pretreatment it still reached 3.9 mg/L, demonstrating the membrane's strength as a standalone barrier. Lower BOD means less biological oxygen demand on the receiving environment and cleaner water for land application.
Fecal Coliform Elimination
>99% removal — both with and without pretreatment, fecal coliforms came back non-detect. Complete elimination. For a municipality managing land application compliance, this is the result that matters most.
This case study documents the deployment of a modular water treatment system for the City of Springfield, designed to treat pond water and surface water sources for safe land reuse applications. The municipality required a decentralized water treatment solution capable of converting raw pond water into treated effluent meeting land application and irrigation reuse standards, without the cost and complexity of traditional municipal water infrastructure.
The ginseng series containerized water treatment system was deployed to treat pond and surface water sources to land reuse quality standards. The system enables the City of Springfield to convert a previously untreated surface water source into a consistently reusable asset for land application, reducing dependence on municipal supply and supporting local water resource management goals.
Key capabilities deployed include ceramic flat sheet ultrafiltration membrane treatment, automated HMI controls, remote monitoring via One Service subscription, and full installation and commissioning support. This deployment serves as a reference case for pond water treatment for land use, surface water treatment systems, municipal water reuse technology, stormwater and pond water recycling, and decentralized municipal water treatment solutions for local government water authorities.