The Mahomet (Illinois) Wastewater Treatment Plant sits in a tight 5-acre triangle: on one side a railroad track, on another side the Sangamon River, and on the third side a subdivision.
That posed a major challenge about 10 years ago as growth in the community, a bedroom suburb of Champaign-Urbana, required a capacity expansion. Complicating things further, the Illinois EPA issued total maximum daily limits for nitrate and phosphorus discharges to the river.
Jason Heid, water and wastewater superintendent, along with his operations team and engineering firm, were up to the challenge. They converted two existing activated sludge package treatment plants
