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Saint Louis University: Submitted By: Balderas, John Benedict B. DATE: 03-19-13
Saint Louis University: Submitted By: Balderas, John Benedict B. DATE: 03-19-13
SUBMITTED BY: BALDERAS, JOHN BENEDICT B. SUBMITTED TO: ENGR. J.R. CRUZ
back to Japan to make the design. In 1984 the Plant construction was started and was completed and operational in 1986. The contractor was Tobishima while the supervisor was LUWA. Today, we have an Activated Sludge Process STP operating 24 hours a day @ 8600 cu.m/day capacity for already 27 years.
The Grit Chamber: Here the sewage passes through steel grates to screen the large sized waste. This process is called screening and it is a Physical process.
The preliminary Sedimentation Tank Sludge Collector. Here the settle able sludge settles and is collected in the sludge collector; this sludge is then pumped to the final sedimentation tank. The sewage with the unsetlleable sludge proceeds to the oxidation ditch passing through the aerators. This is a physical process.
Aerators/Oxidation Ditch. Here is a Biological process wherein the sewage is aerated and the microorganisms residing in it will eat the non-settleable solids that will later on settle with the bacteria that has eaten enough solids. The Baguio Sewage treatment plant has at least eight aerators that are operational.
Final sedimentation sludge collector / Chlorinator/thickened sludge collector/ sludge storage mixer/ sludge drying bed. Here the previously non settleable solids which was eaten by the microorganisms will settle and are collected in the final sedimentation tank. The treated water on top proceeds to the Chlorinator and then released to the Balili River while the sludge at the bottom proceeds to the sludge thickener, then to the sludge storage tank mixer and finally to the drying bed, here the solid sludge looks like soil and can be used as fertilizers.
ditch is exposed to open air and a good amount of untreated sewage evaporates also polluting the air in that area. With this observation again, even the location of the sewage treatment plant is not any more a good location unless additional measures are done to treat the odorous air evaporating from it.
Recommendation:
A proposal may be to modernize the present STP which is, according to the engineer in charge, conventional and old method of processing sewage. Currently, the plant occupies one hectare of land in order to operate. A
Sequential Batch Reactor or (SBR) can process 10,000 cu.m/day
of sewage and requires only 400 sq.m of land to be operational; meaning at least 20 of this kind can be installed in a one hectare area and can process 200, thousand cubic meter of sewage day. If these facilities can be put up in strategic places in Baguio, then perhaps it can solve the problem of sewage pollution in the city. A thorough feasibility study, however, is needed in order to come up with such proposal. Another recommendation is to do something on the bad smell emanating from the STP. Though no people are complaining, it will not take a
genius to know that in one way or another, this affects the health of the people residing around it.