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Wastewater
Wastewater
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When you flush the toilet where does the contents go?
By gravity flow, the waste is on its way to your local wastewater treatment plant!
Sewagesheds
- an area where sewage is collected and delivered to a WWPT Blue Plains WWTP Piscataway WWTP
Mattawoman WWTP
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Levels of Treatment
Primary
removal by physical separation of grit and large objects (material to landfill for disposal)
Secondary
aerobic microbiological process (sludge) organic matter + O2 CO2 + NH3 + H2O aquatic nutrient NH3 NO3- lowers suspended solids content (into sludge)
Secondary process
To tertiary process
air diffuser
Tertiary process
add methanol as food source
Effluent