Wastewater work gave Jamie Belden a chance to help the streams he cares deeply about while earning a good wage.
After many years of varied experience, Belden is operations supervisor with the Wichita Public Works and Utilities Water Reclamation Division, overseeing the city’s four wastewater treatment plants and the biosolids dewatering and land application programs.
Wichita’s largest clean-water plant is the Lower Arkansas River facility (54.4 mgd design). It receives and combines dewatered biosolids from three smaller plants (Four Mile Creek 3 mgd, Cowskin Creek 2 mgd, Mid-Continent 3 mgd, all design flows) for application to cropland.
The smaller plants resulted from a
