Anyone about to start up a brand newwastewater treatment plant would do well to talk to Bob Canham, Mike Rumke, Ray Kirkpatrick and Sam Richardson at Loudoun Water in Loudoun County, Va. They’ve learned some valuable lessons while commissioning the Broad Run Wastewater Reclamation Facility, one of the world’s largest and newest reclamation plants to use membrane bioreactors (MBRs).
Canham’s lifelong career as a consulting engineer and wastewater trainer, combined with Richardson’s, Rumke’s and Kirkpatrick’s many years in wastewater operations, resulted in a three-step process that assured success when Broad Run went through its shakedown period and opened for business in
