Waste Water Reclamation Plant One | Secondary Treatment

Primary Clarifiers

The flow is pumped to three settling basins. The water flows slowly through those tanks with the heavy solids settling to the bottom and the grease and oil floating to the top. A collection mechanism pulls all the solids which settle to the bottom to a hopper from which it can be pumped to another area for processing. The grease and oil is pushed to an area where it can be skimmed off and sent on for further processing. 60% of the solids which come to the plant are removed in this process, the remaining dissolved solids move on to the next process.