Conference Attendees Tour Hamlin Water Reclamation Facility

On Wednesday, May 31, conference attendees had the opportunity to tour the Hamlin Water Reclamation Facility, which resides on 50 acres in the Horizon West/Winter Garden section of Orange County and has a permitted tertiary cloth filtration, chlorine contact tanks, effluent transfer pump station, reclaimed water storage tanks, reclaimed water/nonpar water high-service pump station, sodium hypochlorite storage and feed systems, reject pond system, covered sludge holding tanks, gravity belt thickening equipment in an associated metal building, electrical gear and emergency power generators with a fuel storage system, and administration and maintenance buildings.

The facility uses a five-stage Bardenpho-type process that includes screening, odor control, grit removal, aeration with nitrification and denitrification, secondary clarification, supplemental chemical feed (if necessary), disk filtration units, and chlorination. Biosolids are processed

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Continued from page 21 eventual transport. The reclaimed water produced is stored in the public access reuse tank and pumped offsite to Water Conserv II, the largest reuse project of its kind in the world, with agricultural irrigation as its primary focus.

The facility is staffed 16 hours a day by one senior operations specialist, five plant specialists, one senior utilities maintenance coordinator, one industrial electrician, and two industrial mechanics.

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