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Rock Springs plant tour highlights treatment process and new solar dryer project
Summary
City officials visited the Rock Springs water reclamation facility where Superintendent Nick Seals and plant staff demonstrated treatment steps from screening to UV disinfection, described biosolids processing and said a solar dryer funded by specific purpose tax and an ARPA grant should be complete by June.
Nick Seals, superintendent of the Rock Springs water reclamation facility, led visiting city officials on a tour of the plant and outlined how sewage is screened, biologically treated and discharged.
Seals said the facility removes inorganics at the headworks, runs roughly 2,000,000 gallons per day through the screens and uses a camera inspection program to prioritize pipe replacement. “When you flush at home, it goes into a series of pipes…part of our job is to maintain that system,” Seals said, describing a combination sewer cleaner and the camera rig used to inspect lines.
The tour emphasized the plant’s biological process: wastewater moves into oxidation ditches where…
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