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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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Nothing makes a WWTF operator prouder than the sight of gin-clear effluent spilling over the weirs of the clarifiers. Few things spoil that beautiful sight more than algae growing in the clarifier, catching on the weir as the effluent spills over, floating in the...
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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...
