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Tiffin officials hear plan to add high‑rate remote filter to handle storm flows at wastewater plant
Summary
City staff presented past upgrades and a plan to add a remote high‑rate cloth‑media treatment unit (AquaStorm/AquaDisc family) to treat storm-driven flows and reduce need for an EQ basin; engineers are at 50% design and city-owned land on Water Street is the proposed site.
City staff gave the Tiffin City Council an update on the Water Pollution Control Center’s recent upgrades and a planned remote high‑rate treatment facility that officials say would treat large storm flows without an equalization (EQ) basin.
The presentation, given by Kevin, a Water Pollution Control Center presenter, laid out the plant’s history, recent capital work and why the city is favoring a cloth‑media high‑rate filter (the presentation identified the vendor family as AquaDisc/AquaStorm). “The plant was initially built in the fifties,” Kevin said, and later described upgrades that increased capacity from 4 million to 13 million gallons and replaced chlorine disinfection with ultraviolet treatment.
The planned remote unit would be an automated cloth‑media, high‑rate treatment system designed to treat up to 24 million gallons per day during storm…
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