System solves waste treatment challenges for rural town
Problem: The 30,000-gpd wastewater treatment system in Section, Alabama (population 770), was designed to treat residential and commercial wastewater. The town needed an easy-to-monitor system with tight control.
Solution: The objective was to treat 30,000 gpd at 300 mg/L BOD and TSS and to handle average daily flow fluctuation over a range of 50 to 100 percent. ECOPOD units from Delta Treatment Systems were installed in poured-in-place concrete tanks with aluminum hatches. A 14,200-gallon flow equalization tank was installed before the treatment reactor tanks. This tank includes duplex pumps to ensure that flow surges do
