Wastewater Treatment Plant
The Town’s Wastewater Treatment Plant is located at 852 Atkins Mill Road. The facility is a Class 2 plant designed to treat 4.0 Million Gallon per day (MGD) of Municipal and Industrial Wastes, with an average daily flow of 2.0 MGD. The Plant is an activated sludge process that utilizes various technologies to treat wastewater so it can be released back into Reed Creek. These technologies include numerous settlement basins, designed to separate solids from the liquid and remove them for further treatment or disposal. Defused air basins designed to inject dissolved oxygen into the waste stream and kick start the biological treatment process. After the liquid is treated to our standards it is exposed to Chlorine for disinfection, and then exposed to Sulfur Dioxide before being released into Reed Creek. The Sulfur Dioxide neutralizes the Chlorine in order to protect aquatic life that exists in the stream. As for the solids that have been removed in the upstream processes, they are pumped to Anaerobic Digesters where they go through a treatment process before disposal to a landfill. The facility is staffed by state certified and nationally recognized licensed operators who undergo rigorous training and continuous education to assure that the facility achieves the optimum removal and treatment possible.