Significant operational challenges. That’s something of an understatement when making wastewater treatment enhancements at an international research university that after 170 years continues to expand.
Known as Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi approached Engineering Solutions Inc. (ESi) in 2010, seeking guidance on an upgrade to its wastewater facility, built in 1972 as a dual-basin extended aeration plant.
ESi designed a project to convert one of the basins to a 0.75 mgd oxidation ditch (Lakeside Equipment), replace the clarifier equipment and recirculation pumping, upgrade the headworks and convert the other aeration basin to flow equalization.
The new oxidation ditch uses a
