Editor's Note: This article is part of a profile on the La Plata (Maryland) Wastewater Treatment Plant, which will be featured in the February 2016 issue of Treatment Plant Operator. Make sure you don't miss out by subscribing to the print version of TPO. We'll send a copy right to your doorstep.At the height of a 2011 enhanced nutrient removal upgrade at the La Plata (Maryland) Wastewater Treatment Plant, things went terribly wrong in the tertiary clarifier. Operators had turned on the rapid-mix tank, then had started adding alum and polymer to bind phosphorus to the aluminum. Rather than phosphorus precipitating from the solution, its numbers
Troubleshooting a Tertiary Clarifier Problem
Find out how the staff at La Plata Wastewater Treatment Plant solved a tertiary clarifier problem during an enhanced nutrient removal upgrade
Dec 15, 2015
| by Scottie Dayton |
