It’s not easy operating a wastewater treatmentplant when you can’t smell it or hear it, and most of it is out of sight. Yet that’s the task facing the staff at the 15 mgd treatment facility at the 43-acre Johns Creek Environmental Campus in Roswell, Ga.
Located just a few yards from well-to-do neighborhoods, the brand-new 90,000-square-foot treatment and recycling facility is designed to be odorless and noiseless. Most of the process equipment is located underground.
“It’s a highly technical operation,” says Kevin Miller, who manages the plant for Veolia Water North America, the operations firm under contract with the plant’s owner,
