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Industrial water treatment since 1990.
More than thirty years designing water treatment for industry, from a lab bench to an island resort.
A pure water supply for a pharmaceutical process, or a treatment plant for an island resort: we design for the job. Systems start at 2,000 litres a day and go up to containerised plants making 200,000 litres a day. We will help you pick the most cost-effective one.
Labs need pure, bacteria-free water, and we have reverse osmosis, ultraviolet and chemical disinfection for that. We also take on the hard ones, from iron removal softeners to saline wastewater.
We distribute Waterways, FSA and Desal Systems products and services across Queensland.
Jobs we do
- Bore water treatment for farms and homes
- Reverse osmosis for potable water plants, laboratories and process use
- Drinking water for mine camps and remote sites
- Water treatment for pharmaceutical processes
- Water for printing, including 5 colour Heidelberg presses
- Large reverse osmosis plants for industry and agriculture, with Desal Systems
Cebu, Philippines: reverse osmosis on a landfill bore.
In January 2005 a team from the Sunshine Coast flew to Cebu Island in the Philippines to look into installing a water purification project. The equipment was funded by members of the Coolum Beach Christian Family Church. In 2009 a second team of four men travelled to Cebu on a self-funded mission to install it. PurePro handled the design, the buying, the international freight and customs clearance.
The hardest part of the job was getting the equipment released from customs at the Cebu airport, but that is another story, and a long one.
The RO produced water at 30 ppm TDS from the moment it started. The local bottled water tested at over 120 ppm. The system the team had built was making the purest water on Cebu Island at the time.
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The site made it hard. The borehole was inside the Inayawan compound, next to a municipal landfill, and the groundwater draining the landfill was heavily polluted with heavy metals, hydrocarbons and bacteria. A local contractor had drilled the bore about 38 metres deep and lined it with 100 mm pipe, but left a 38 metre length of 50 mm galvanised tube in the hole. Just pulling that out was a task.
Resources were thin, so the team scoured the landfill for usable material and built a makeshift drum to run the bore pump pipe, cable and steel rope over. They fitted a single phase, multi-stage Grundfos borehole pump and started pumping straight away. After a couple of hours the water had cleaned up considerably, and the TDS of the bore water was already below that of the tap water on site.
On day three the team built a tank stand, a mounting platform for the reverse osmosis system, and an ultraviolet disinfection system. The last job was assembling the reverse osmosis unit, the sand filter and the pipework to the bore pump.
The Inayawan community still drinks from it. Thank you to the Cebu Missionary Foundation team led by Lucy Ellen and her back-up crew, to Tom Daniels, Ps Steve Nichol and Nathan Dearling for their help, and to the Inayawan team and all the smiling kids and families. It was a pleasure to serve them.
Steve Brassington, Managing Director, PurePro
Dissolved solids (TDS), parts per million
Lower is purer.
The community still drinks from it.
Got a site that needs water?
Tell Steve the source, the flow and the quality you need, and he will come back with a plant.