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With every permit renewal, discharge limits can be drastically reduced, usually with a compliance schedule that allows the wastewater facility to evaluate options and implement the best solution. That is the situation Star Sewer, a utility outside Boise, Idaho, found...
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Achieving Discharge Seasonal Limits And Avoiding Capital Costs January 24, 2020 Summary Geneseo Wastewater Treatment Plant is a 1.5 MGD municipal facility in the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York with a seasonal total phosphorus (TP) limit of 1.0 mg/L. After...
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Enhanced coagulation drives plant efficiency and performance The Challenge A 770,000 GPD municipal wastewater treatment plant discharging to a stream leading to Lake Erie was having difficulty meeting its total aluminum (1.1 mg/L) and total phosphorus (1.0 mg/L)...
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Sludge Reduction and Phosphorus Control Driven Simultaneously November 2020 Summary Coppermine WRF (water reclamation facility) serves an area in Paulding County Georgia, a rapidly growing suburb of Atlanta. With approximately 800,000 GPD average flow, this municipal...
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If you must remove phosphorus from your wastewater, it is likely you must also remove ammonia- nitrogen. Nitrification, the process of oxidizing ammonia to nitrate and nitrite, is optimal in the narrow range of pH from 7.5 to 8.6. A pH below 7.2 results in a...