FACILITIES & SERVICES

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