PROCESS COMPONENTS INCLUDE:
- Main Pump Station
- Headworks Building – Mechanical bar screens, grit removal system
- Aeration Basins – Four (4) aeration trains with fine bubble aeration system
- Final Clarifiers(4) – 100 Ft. Diameter
- Scum Removal System
- Chlorination Chamber
- Effluent Filter Building
- Effluent Pumping Station – Discharge ½ mile off shore
- Two (2) Gravity Belt Thickeners
- Sludge Storage Tanks – 1.025 Million Gallons total capacity
- Sludge Dewatering Facility – Two (2) Belt Filter Press
- Disinfection Building
FOUNDED IN 1965 TO PROVIDE A SOLUTION TO FAILING SEPTIC SYSTEMS AND POLLUTION OF LOCAL WATERS
- ORIGINAL PLANT BUILT IN 1971
- MAJOR UPGRADE 2000
- MINOR UPGRADES 1988, 1992, 1996
- AVERAGE FLOW 10.5 MGD
- MAXIMUM FLOW 14.0 MGD
- PEAK FLOWS 25-30 MGD
- OVER 200 MILES OF SEWER PIPE/19 PUMPING STATIONS
- Collects and Pumps waste from homes to Water Reclamation Facility
- 4 – 150 HP MAIN PUMPS
- MECHANICAL BAR SCREENS & GRIT REMOVAL (Removes Inorganic Material)
- METHOD OF TREATMENT – ACTIVATED SLUDGE
- METHOD OF AERATION – FINE BUBBLE DIFFUSED AIR
- SECONDARY CLARIFICATION
- DISINFECTION BY SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE
- FINAL TREATMENT BY SAND FILTRATION (Process found in Drinking Water PlantsSLUDGE THICKENED FROM .5% TO 4% – Gravity Belt Thickeners)
- SLUDGE DEWATERED FROM 4% TO 18-20% – Belt Filter Presses
- SLUDGE CAKE INCINERATED OFF SITE or
- SLUDGE CAKE IS MADE INTO COMPOST FOR AGRICULTURAL USES
- DISINFECTED EFFLUENT DISCHARGED TO ATLANTIC OCEAN
- ONGOING STUDY OF EFFLUENT REUSE AND SLUDGE OPTIONS