Secure and affordable water supplies are the building blocks for economic growth and competitiveness. The Applied Research Center has expertise, instrumentation, dedicated laboratories, and pilot-scale facilities to tackle multidisciplinary problems in water treatment and purification processes, energy-efficient  water cleanup, surface water and groundwater pollution characterization, hydrology and hydrogeology, contaminant fate and transport, and sampling and analysis.

Capabilities

• Remediation
• Bioremediation
• Contaminant characterization
• Environmental restoration

Water Pollution.
The Center is working with the South Florida Water Management District to develop a remotely operated and automated water sampling system to measure pollutants while reducing costs and labor requirements.

The Applied Research Center is contributing to the control of water pollution in the Everglades through the development of an improved automated sampling system for the South Florida Water Management District. The system, installed at a pumping station monitors levels of phosphorus and nitrates that are released into lakes and wetlands from fertilizers used in the Everglades Agricultural Area, the state’s most productive agricultural region.

The Applied Research Center is developing strategies that use natural processes to control contamination in soil and groundwater. This approach is called monitored natural attenuation.