First the plant removes the grit, it passes through filter screens. They remove solids that are at the bottom by adding a mixed liquor with the nitrification process. Blowers are used to add oxygen to the water.
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What training do the operators and workers have?
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Water Treatment Specialist Certificate Program
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Wastewater Treatment Specialist Certificate Program
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They monitor the amount of sediment in the tank, the growth of microorganisms; they monitor the amount of nitrogen.
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They pump it to the sludge degritting and grinding facilities.
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Used to improve the soil for crops and fuel.
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Yes the plant receives storm water and this is a part of a combined sewer overflow system. A CSO system is designed to collect rainwater and other sewage from other areas. 7.
Disposing of toxic sludge and other harmful chemical that are placed into the water and then placed back out into the environment.
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Yes the water is treated before placed back out into the environment; this is discharged into many filters and disinfection tanks before this goes back out in the water natural environment. 9.
Into the Potomac river
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EPA and region 3 office non domestic waste water discharge for the District of Columbia and combined sewer systems. They limit the levels of containments that are in the water like uranium, radium and alpha particles just to start.
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2 million Washington metro customers, places that are connected to this industry are: sanitary, storm water and light industrial.
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This is decontaminated with chemicals that could lead to health risk.
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Temperature needs to be high enough so water is not frozen, nitrification process changes due to the temperature which includes algae growth, in the summer time the orders are high, there is more volume during the rainy and snow season as well as the ability to