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At the Osprey Water Reclamation Facility in Titusville, Florida, a wet well was abandoned and a clarifier was retrofitted with double disc pumps (Penn Valley Pump) piped directly to the scum trough.
Scum. It’s the plastics, grease and other floatables that hover on the surface during wastewater clarification. No one likes scum, and no one really wants to be the one to remove it.
But when it comes to the “traditional method” of skimming scum off the top of the...
