WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT OF THE YEAR Category 2 (1 MGD to <15 MGD) ...acknowledges a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Texas that has consistently exhibited outstanding performance of daily activities beyond the normal call of duty.
Sulphur Springs WWTP City of Sulphur Springs The City of Sulphur Springs Wastewater Treatment thickeners, dewatered using a belt filter press, and Facility is an activated sludge plant that is are composted with wood before being hauled to a permitted for 5.40 MGD annual average daily flow landfill. and 6.07 MGD peak 2-hour flow. The documented safety program in action consists of the following written documents: Hazard The plant is designed to provide service for Assessment, Confined Space Entry Manual, approximately 17,000 residents. Liquid treatment processes consist of influent bar screens, an Excavation Safety, Prevention Program, Emergency Response Program, Hazardous Waste Operations, aerated grit removal basin, primary clarifiers, and Emergency Response, Risk Management aeration basins with a fine-bubble diffused air and Plan. In-house safety meetings are conducted centrifugal blower system, final clarifiers, a final monthly. The City of Sulphur Springs Wastewater clarifier effluent pump station, cloth disc filters, Treatment Facility has had no lost-time incidents and a chlorination/dechlorination disinfection process. per 100 facility employees in the year preceding the nomination. Primary sludge and WAS are combined in the aerobic digesters, are then thickened via gravity
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Texas WaterTM 2022 Awards Program
