While stormwater can overwhelm treatmentsystems, a project to reduce CSOs didn’t interfere with operations at the Montague (Mass.) Water Pollution Control Facility. In fact, the plant’s management and staff took advantage of the construction to make other improvements.
While adding primary effluent disinfection and smoothing out storm surges from a hilly part of town, superintendent Robert Trombley and his staff added a much-needed biosolids dewatering system, replaced the roof on the operations building, installed a state-of-the-art SCADA system, replaced the bar screens in the headworks building, and made changes to the biological system that are saving the town hundreds of thousands
