Clean-water plant operators have long resigned themselves to the laborious and dangerous process of manually cleaning algae, grease and other material from the weirs, baffles and troughs of clarifier and thickener tanks.
Algae growing almost exponentially, especially in summer, can accumulate at a surprising rate and eventually even affect the tank functions. Manual washdowns still occur in part because the wastewater industry has always done it that way; many operators do not know that more effective solutions exist that are affordable, easy to install and fully automated.
“Today, there are solutions that use pressurized water to break up algae for easy removal,” says
