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Overall, the system performed well and most of the average effluent turbidities were below 1 NTU. The overdose of alum did cause the effluent turbidity to be slightly higher than the ideal dose, however it was still within the range of ideal effluent turbidity. It was expected that the 35 mg/L alum dose would perform poorly. However, this dosage produced better results than the ideal alum dose, so further experiments are being performed to collect data with a lower alum stock concentration. (Include your results from 25 mg/L. Relate your graphs and results to your conclusions. What are these results indicating? Is alum dose affecting performance? Is it fair to indicate that these doses are over and under dosed? If not, do we need higher and lower doses? What does this mean for how we are dosing alum? Are the water chemistry conditions we have in lab applicable to Honduras? What would be different in Honduras about dosing that we do not see here.)