Biodredging Promises Affordable Alternative for Lagoon Maintenance

A Texas city deploys an innovative hybrid technology to resolve a long-standing lagoon solids accumulation and restore permit compliance.
Biodredging Promises Affordable Alternative for Lagoon Maintenance
An aerator with a specialized engineered biofilm is used for ammonia reduction.

In 2011, the Texas city of Celeste experienced severe solids accumulation in its wastewater treatment lagoon, causing dramatic loss of retention time and significant discharge permit exceedances. Strong odors forced neighbors a mile or more downwind to close their...

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