The improvements just keep coming at the Glasgow (Kentucky) Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Built in 1962 as a trickling filter plant with upflow sand filters and anaerobic digesters, the plant was upgraded four times, most recently in 2014. Today, it operates as a 4.0 mgd SCADA-controlled extended aeration facility with new headworks, circular clarifiers, biosolids press and peracetic acid instead of chlorine for disinfection.
The improvements haven’t gone unnoticed. For outstanding performance, Glasgow won the 2017 Kentucky Water & Wastewater Operators Association Plant of the Year award. Last year, the Glasgow Water Co. received the Kentucky Excellence in Energy Leadership Award sponsored
