YA-BLM-PT-81-14-9184
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is responsible for providing small water purification systems for remote recreational and wilderness area sites. Many of these remote areas are used on a seasonal basis, by small numbers of people (from one or two users per day to several hundred per day). Each of these facilities is required to meet all local, state, and federal public health requirements. Since there are so many types of systems and applications to choose from, BLM often has difficulty in choosing the proper system for each regulatory and site-specific situation.
This study was undertaken to investigate various common types of small domestic water purification systems that may be suitable for use at BLM sites, and to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each type of system.