Wastewater entering the Mt. Jackson (Va.) Sewage Treat-ment Plant was so high in nutrients that director of utilities Gale Netz wasted the 78,000-gallon digester daily. However, the six 25-foot-square drying beds often lost the struggle to keep up.A 700,000 gpd (design) treatment plant with sequencing batch reactor basins and dewatering technology was in the planning stages, but until it opened in November 2008, Netz needed an economical solution to his problem.While Netz was on duty with the National Guard in Afghanistan, town manager Charles Moore and the temporary plant operator toured three treatment plants to see belt and rotary fan
