Photo of Ames Water Pollution Control Facility
Client: 
City of Ames

Location: 
Ames, Iowa

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