trymahjong Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Thought this was interesting.I don't know how to find the article on line, but I read in Saturday's The Facts newspaper (covers Brazoria County. )Brazosport Water Authority unanimously approved the plan for the plant."The plant will provide water to seven municipalities and industrial partners through a process of converting Brackish water. . . into fresh water.""The project will be funded through money the water authority has set aside from refinancing bonds and at a rate increase that will be passed on to the entities involved in the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud713 Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 (edited) shouldnt this go in the Coastal Prairies subforum, not the Sugar Land/southwest subforum? Edited March 10, 2014 by cloud713 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChannelTwoNews Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 It is interesting. Wasn't aware of anything tied to desalination being proposed in the area. Any further specifics? The website for The Facts doesn't have anything about this right now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plumber2 Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Dow Chemical had a desalinization plant at Freeport for years. I remember reading about it in the Texas Almanac and other publications back in the day. It was something of note that Freeport used in marketing materials back in the 60's and 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Dow Chemical had a desalinization plant at Freeport for years. I remember reading about it in the Texas Almanac and other publications back in the day. It was something of note that Freeport used in marketing materials back in the 60's and 70's. I don't know if Dow had a desalinization plant or not, but the unit that made magnesium took in sea water as the raw material, and had nearly pure water as a byproduct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago I remember the desalinization plant built in the 50s. I thought it was a project of the city of Freeport and supplied water to Freeport although it was located on the outskirts of Dow Plant A. As I remember Israeli technology/scientists were involved. I never heard the water from the Dow plant was pure; besides being used by the desal plant, it was taken in by the Ethyl Dow plant, also adjacent, to extract bromine from the seawater. Ethyl Dow made ethylene-dibromide, as I recall, which was used by the Ethyl Corporation to make Tetra-ethyl-lead, the lead in leaded gasoline. I recall seeing either a picture or in person the intake tank? of either Ethyl Dow or the desal plant with lots of dead sea critters piled up. Lots more detail could probably be gained from archives of the Facts which are available online, if from no other source One of the Dow brothers, based in Midland, MI, came up with a process to extract magnesium from seawater and chose Freeport for a new division of their company to access the raw materials necessary. Dow Plant A is located on Freeport Harbor, the old mouth of the Brazos river. Dow Plant B, which you pass by on 288 headed into Freeport, was built by the government to help Dow increase production of magnesium during the War (#2, as they say) for use as fuses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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