Features

• New 5-mile-long, 66-inch diameter interceptor sewer and water pollution control facility
• Physical and biological treatment methods reduce organic materials, oxygen demand, solids and ammonia
• Effluent limits are among most stringent in the state
• First facility in northern climate to use a two-stage trickling filter/ solids contact (TF/SC) process for removing ammonia
• Multiple energy conservation systems that include the TF/SC process, a “teacup” grit removal system and vertical turbine solids handling pumps
• Facility configuration allows for maximum flexibility with six different modes of operation
• Anaerobic sludge digestion with methane gas recovery and electric power generation