When the Florida town of Davie built its new water reclamation facility with a membrane bioreactor, the operators had no experience with the technology.They did have substantial experience in the wastewater treatment industry, and that enabled them to bring the plant online smoothly, delivering high-quality effluent from the start. After 3 1/2 years in operation, the plant treats an average of 1.4 mgd, up to 70 percent of it delivered to customers for reuse in landscape irrigation.“In starting up a brand new facility, besides learning the equipment and developing operating procedures, we were faced with having no support structure on
