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hello and welcome to city edition the city of dan's video news magazine and
justin feinstein
ben's wastewater treatment plant is at capacity and on tap for expansion
but city staff is looking for ways to maximize the efficiency of existing
components
the city and then
has stunned series of projects over the last six years uh... looking at what we
can do
uh... too
provide more treatment
in
the area and that takes that we have right now
and be more efficient with more sustainable
that energy-efficient needs
capacity lies at the wastewater treatment plant we can't read
six million gallons per day right now word just under six million gallons per
day on an average basis
so we've been planning
uh... additional capacity improvements as well as trying to do more with what
we have
inorder accomplished uh... this upgrade we've put together a team of design
engineers in the states to 'em hill and debbie a specific
and uh... came from the city of band of engineers operators maintenance staff
and looked at ways that weekend economize and
at more efficiently
this waste water and what we have the existing
plant that we have how much you know how well can we use
the existing take aids and facility so they have
party and uh... help
the city to a selection process that selected by fast technology which is
integrated fixed film activated sludge
innocence they were going to take
many many uh... truckloads these plastic media and put them into a new
compartment with then heated the existing originations
it biofilm will grow on the media
in that will provide
uh... break high-efficiency treatment process level
improve efficiency of the bases
by adding the i pass carrier media in the recent basins
were able to treat
into a recent bases as the city is currently treating in three
so this improvement in efficiency will really servicing well and also allows
for expanded billing in the future
the biofilm
or the bacteria live on these bug condos or bypass media require lots of their
and by adding
more capacity of the wastewater plant we're going to need more air
and that is the largest user of energy at our wastewater plant so with the idea
that we want to reduce our costs operating costs
putting interval blowers though it's a new technology that allows us to reduce
the energy requirement by thirty percent and us our energy bills
we're here at the city's
existing client contact basins right next to the gas korean storage facility
process will be replaced by a new ultraviolet disinfection facility to
treat the wastewater before it leaves a plan
the ultraviolet disinfection process is much safer allows the city to avoid
hauling inquiry from over the mountains
another way we are increasing efficiency is related to the recently completed
digestive mixing project the digestive takes a larger from liquids process
in these tanks behind us
allowing the city to dispose of the safely
the digest annexing project
improve mixing in the two older digest his allowing the city to put more solids
in the digestive sandifer
capital investment of a fourth died yesterday pretended to twenty years
another benefit to the digest you're mixing project was to allow us to
produce more methane gas that methane gas feeds boilers
and hits the water that he's our buildings
uh... the expansion project will cap capitalize on that heat all the
buildings will be heated by this method gas saves this energy reduces our
monthly bills