Waste Water Reclamation Plant One | Solids Handling

Introduction

The solids build up in the secondary treatment process as a result of new cell growth. We try to maintain the correct population of bacteria to clean the water in the secondary process. The unneeded bacteria are removed from the secondary treatment process. We call this wasting sludge. The sludge is sent through a series of treatment process that are designed to stablize the sludge. We turn this sludge into a crop nutrient which is used to grow corn.