| This project was necessary in order to meet the ammonia-nitrogen removal limits required by the plant’s new NPDES permit. |
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Project Highlights:
- Project Cost - $7.5 million; Construction Cost - $6.6 million
- Planning, design, construction engineering, construction observation
- Treatment processes designed to reduce effluent ammonia
- New peak capacity of 6.25 MGD
- Financed with low interest IDEM SRF program
- Utilized existing tanks as part of construction
- New headworks facility with fine screening and grit removal
- Conversion of the existing package plants entirely to aeration
- Two new clarifiers, a sludge return pump station
- A new inline UV disinfection system
- New parshall flume metering structure and aerobic sludge digester tanks to supplement the existing biosolids facilities (belt press)
- Major renovation of a lift station
- New laboratory and control building
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