Mixing Technology and Operator Ingenuity Play a Key Role in This Facility's Nitrogen and Phosphorus Reductions

Mixers enable operators at a northern Montana clean-water plant to achieve nutrient removal in a facility not designed for that purpose.

Mixing Technology and Operator Ingenuity Play a Key Role in This Facility's Nitrogen and Phosphorus Reductions

The submersible mixers were installed in a full tank while the treatment process continued to operate.

When the small team at the Chinook (Montana) Wastewater Treatment Plant selected new mixers for a plant upgrade in 2004, they could not have known that the same mixers would still be dutifully working 16 years later — and contributing to nutrient removal.

The mixers were purchased...

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