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Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges. [ 2]
The Atlantic County Utilities Authority was formed in the late 1960s by the Atlantic County Board of Freeholders and charged with developing a comprehensive approach to wastewater management. At that time, Atlantic County had more than 20 small, outdated sewage treatment plants, most of which discharged effluent into streams, tidal waters and ...
The commission began to install sewer connections from its service area to the Blue Plains plant in the late 1930s and 1940s. [10] [11] WSSC had built its own sewage treatment plant in Bladensburg, Maryland in the 1940s. In the early 1950s WSSC reached agreement with the District of Columbia government to connect the Bladensburg area to Blue ...
The Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission ( PVSC) is a regional wastewater public utility located in Newark, New Jersey. Established in 1902, PVSC provides sewage treatment services to 1.5 million people, consisting of 48 municipalities, in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Union and Passaic Counties. The commission also provides environmental education ...
A sanitary sewer is an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings (but not stormwater) to a sewage treatment plant or disposal. Sanitary sewers are a type of gravity sewer and are part of an overall system called a "sewage system" or sewerage. Sanitary sewers serving industrial areas may also ...
The power plant would only be used as a backup when a storm disrupts power to the sewage treatment plant. The sewerage commission would be able to test the facility once a month.
The April 5 quake in New Jersey damaged equipment in the Sussex County town's treatment plant. Here's what needs to be repaired. North Jersey town OKs $600K to fix damage from April earthquake at ...
Moving bed biofilm reactor. Moving bed biofilm reactor ( MBBR) is a type of wastewater treatment process that was first invented by Professor Hallvard Ødegaard at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in the late 1980s. [ 1] The process takes place in an aeration tank with plastic carriers that a biofilm can grow on.