Located in the southeast of China on the straits of Taiwan, Fuzhou City is the Capital of the Fujian Province. Fuzhou has a population of 6.6 million, of which 2.43 million live in the urban area.
Fuzhou Economic and Technical Development Zone (ETDZ) are located 10 kilometres east of Fuzhou city and were established in 1985. This zone was one of the first of 14 ETDZ’s in the coastal areas of China. To date the total foreign investment within the ETDZ is US$4.7 billion including industries such as electronics, biochemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical, textile and food processing.
In 2003, CJV (Fuzhou CWC) was establish between The China Water Company (CWC) and ETDZ Water Company to develop and operate the water treatment facilities which supply water to the ETDZ including industry and 150,000 domestic users. The facilities consist of two plants with a combined capacity of 125 Mld and 93 kilometres of distribution network, which is mainly gravity fed.
Raw water can be obtained from two sources. Normally the plants draw water from the Baimei reservoir, which is located 12 kilometres from the plant and has a storage capacity of 15 million cubic meters. In the event of drought, water can be drawn via a pumping station from the Ming River which is adjacent to the treatment plant.
The treatment plants consist of:-
- Mixing and flocculation using ploy aluminium chloride
- Clarification with travelling bridge sludge collectors
- Filtration
- Chemical dosing
- Clean Water Storage
Fuzhou CWC has successfully adopted an ISO 9001 quality management system to construct and operate the plant. Since operation commenced under Fuzhou CWC, the company has benefited from a number of changes that have been implemented including:
- Technical support – automatic monitoring and control of the water plant and network.
- Implementation of advanced management policies and procedures
- Training initiatives
- Improvement of the health & safety environment by introducing enhanced safety measures
- Emergency response plan which has proved invaluable during typhoons
- Consistent with the CWC philosophy