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Technologies and Costs for Removal of Arsenic From Drinking Water

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Thus, the cost <strong>of</strong> a road <strong>and</strong> fence was calculated <strong>and</strong> 43% <strong>of</strong> that total was included in the unitcost <strong>for</strong> activated alumina <strong>for</strong> systems serving between 25 <strong>and</strong> 100 people.]11. The equation <strong>for</strong> process area, which is the key variable in estimating the costs <strong>for</strong> buildings,roads, <strong>and</strong> fences has been based on the design flow <strong>of</strong> the system. The equation used <strong>for</strong>process area is:Process Area = 118.7 * Design Flow + 118Basis. The basis <strong>for</strong> the cost equations <strong>for</strong> buildings, fence <strong>and</strong> road are described in Section4.0 <strong>of</strong> the Very Small Systems Document (10). The Very Small Systems Document providedcosts as a percentage <strong>of</strong> the capital costs <strong>for</strong> design flows from 0.024 to 0.65 mgd. Theprocess area was calculated from the building cost estimates by dividing by 40 (building costswere based on $40/sq ft). The process areas <strong>for</strong> the design flows in the Very Small SystemsDocument were regressed <strong>and</strong> found to best fit a linear regression:Process Area (sq ft) = 118.7 * Design Flow + 118The process area <strong>for</strong> the conceptual designs in the <strong>Water</strong> Model (3) were also regressed <strong>and</strong>fitted to a linear regression. The conceptual designs covered resin volumes from 4 to 520cubic feet. The linear regression from this source is:Process Area (sq ft) = 171.8 * Design Flow + 103The process area estimates using the Very Small Systems Document equation were selectedto make cost estimates <strong>for</strong> buildings, road <strong>and</strong> fence. The process area estimates using thisequation were consistently higher than the <strong>Water</strong> Model estimates over the entire range <strong>of</strong>design flows under consideration. Since there would be a minimum building size,extrapolating a linear regression below the lowest data point does not create a significantproblem with the intercept.E-6

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