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Unidentified speaker describes screening process at wastewater treatment plant
Summary
An unidentified speaker (S1) outlined how a wastewater plant uses quarter-inch screening plates to remove items such as rags, condoms, tampons and needles before biological treatment, and said roughly 2,000,000 gallons per day pass through the plates that run continuously.
An unidentified speaker (S1) gave a brief walkthrough of a municipal wastewater treatment plant’s influent screening process, saying, “Smells like a feedlot,” as staff moved toward the intake area and then explaining the plant’s intake operations.
The speaker said the plant’s first line of defense is a physical screening step: "Once we get the water through the collection system, we get it into the plant, we gotta remove any, inorganics that we can't treat. This is our first line of defense,…
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