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Welcome to the Environmental Laboratory Services
Division of the City of Grand Junction. Our Division consists
of two labs: The Water Quality Laboratory located at the City's
Water Treatment Plant and the Environmental Laboratory located
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What's New
The City of Grand Junction Water Quality Laboratory
has recently received National Laboratory Certification for the
Analyses of Cryptosporidiun and Giardia. For more details please
see the article in our Water
Quality Report.
The Grand Junction Water Quality Laboratory was honored with an
award for Outstanding Water Laboratory
at the 2004 Rocky Mountain Section of American Water Works Association
conference.
The City of Grand Junction Water Treatment Facility reduced energy
and nautral gas comsumption at its facility during 2006 with the
installation of geothermal heating. The cooling system uses geo-exchange
plates mounted in the raw water basins for the transfer of energy
(heat) .
The system was installed in the summer of 2006 and nautral gas
usage for heating the main water treatment facility was reduced
by over 50%. The energy savings in Kilowatt (Kw) reduction is harder
to determine because staff also completed the installation of variable
frequency drive units on the two 100 horsepower backwash pumps.
These drive units decreased the facility's kilowat demand from
an average of 120 Kw per month or a 25% reduction power usage.
Anuual Children's Water Festival at Mesa College
The
Ute Water Conservancy District, Clifton Water District, City of
Grand Junction, and the Town of Palisade, in cooperation with
numerous agencies statewide, produce the annual Children's
Water Festival at Mesa State College in Grand Junction.
Classes, demonstrations and outdoor activities of this fun two-day
event are designed to introduce 5th graders, parents and teachers
to the importance of water to Colorado. Over 2400 fifth graders
are expected to attend the 14th annual Water Festival May , 2008.
 
Learning about water was never so much fun.

For registration information,
please email Jo Holcomb, Laboratory Manager
or call (970) 256-4174.
This page updated
Thursday, May 15, 2008
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