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Understanding Understanding Wastewater Treatment Wastewater Treatment
SystemsSystemsJulia Gaskin - Cooperative Extension, Ag Pollution Prevention Program
Brian Kiepper - Engineering Outreach Service
Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department
Dr. Larry West
Crop & Soil Science Department
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
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First!First!
The Law of “Conservation of Mass”:
“Matter is neither created or destroyed”
Always Remember:
When you flush,
It doesn’t disappear!
Antoine Lavoisier
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To Centralize or To Centralize or Decentralize?Decentralize? That is the That is the question!question!Centralized Treatment System
Wastewater Treatment
Plant
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Decentralized Treatment Systems
On-Site Wastewater Treatment (Septic Systems)
Cluster Design
Large Community Systems
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CentralizeCentralizedd
DecentralizedDecentralized
• Discharge system
• Capital intensive
• Personnel intensive, but labor efficient
• Provides higher degree of treatment
• Non-discharge system
• Less capital
• Less labor, but still needs maintenance (Who maintains?)
• Uses plant /soil soil system for treatment
VS.
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Centralized System Centralized System TreatmentTreatment
• Large Debris: screened and sent to a landfilled
• Grit Removal: collected and sent to a landfill
• Biological Treatment: microbes use organic matter to grow• Clarifiers: remove floating oil & grease
and biosolids• Biosolids:
Treated and stabilized sludge containing microbe cells
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Centralized Centralized WastestreamsWastestreams
Treated Wastewat
er
Sludge or
Biosolids
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Decentralized Decentralized WastestreamsWastestreams
Effluent
Sludge
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Septic TanksSeptic Tanks
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What Are We Talking What Are We Talking About?About?
Septic Tank PerformanceParameter Concentration (mg/L)
Percent Reductio
n
BOD5 200 - 290 40 – 50 %
TSS 200 - 290 50 – 70 %
Nitrogen 35 – 100 20 – 30 %
Phosphorus 18 – 30 30 %
Fecal coliforms (#/L)
108 – 1010 ?
BOD5 – Biochemical Oxygen Demand; TSS – Total Suspended Solids
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Natural Wastewater Natural Wastewater Disposal SystemsDisposal Systems
• Uses natural plant/soil processes to clean up wastewater.
• Recycling!
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Plant/Soil Plant/Soil SystemSystem
• Soil organisms and plants – absorb nutrients, breakdown organics
• Soil chemical characteristics – hold metals
• Removing aboveground plants - removes nutrients
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What Makes It All WorkWhat Makes It All Work
Protozoa
Actinomycetes
Mites
Mycorhizzae
Roots
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What Makes What Makes It All Work!It All Work!
Plants!
Annual Rye
Bermudagrass
Forests
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•Habitat (mixture of solid, water, and air
•Holds minerals and metals
•Acts as filter
What Makes What Makes It All Work!It All Work!
Adapted from Tisdale et al, 1993
Soil!
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SoilsSoils
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Natural systems affected Natural systems affected by the environmentby the environment
• Weather
• Insect pests
• Stresses
-too much water, -not enough of certain
nutrients
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Irrigation onto land to support vegetative growth, with no direct discharge to surface water
Effluent or Effluent or WastewaterWastewaterSlow Rate IrrigationSlow Rate Irrigation
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Spray Spray IrrigationIrrigation
Municipal, commercial, or cluster residential
Forest or crops (Bermudagrass/rye)
Forest less management, more land
How NOT to do it!
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Spray Spray IrrigationIrrigation
With filtering and disinfection, can be used to irrigate parks or golf courses.
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Drip Drip IrrigationIrrigation•Commercial or cluster residential
•Some surface drip lines, mostly buried 8-12 in.
•Have to have good filters for particulates
•Usually septic tank then ATU package plant
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Drip IrrigationDrip Irrigation
•Anecdotal evidence:
-Larger systems >10 acres tend to experience more problems
-Shopping center systems tend to have more problems
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DrainfieldDrainfieldssCommercial, cluster residential, single residential
2,000–150,000 gpd
Septic tank and trenches
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Overland Overland FlowFlow
Discharge system in which wastewater is treated as it flows down grass-covered slopes. Soils must have low permeability to minimize percolation.
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Constructed Constructed WetlandsWetlands
Discharge system where wastewater treated by plant/soil system then discharged to stream.
Non-discharge system where treated water infiltrates or evaporates.
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Constructed Constructed WetlandsWetlands
• Municipal, commercial, cluster residential, or single residential
• Septic tank or other treatment, then wetland
• Free water surface and vegetated submerged bed.
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Choosing the Right Choosing the Right SystemSystem
Site Characteristics
Waste strength
Flows
Soils
Hydrology
Geology
Topography
Sensitive areas
Capital Costs
Land
Equipment
Construction
Operating Costs
Electricity
Maintenance
Periodic Cleaning
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Who Who Maintains???Maintains???
County?
Homeowners association?
Third party?Need long-term planning.
May need long-term bonding for failures.
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Who Maintains???Who Maintains???
• County - Set up public utility & charge sewer fees
• Third party utility – Private entity set up as utility, Electric Membership Cooperative (EMC) provide this service in some areas
• Homeowners Assoc. – Harder to maintain
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Everyone should know the type of treatment systems they are on
AND things that create problems
Public EducationPublic Education
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This information was developed with help This information was developed with help
from thefrom the AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION PREVENTION PROGRAMPREVENTION PROGRAM
Cooperative ExtensionCooperative Extension
Engineering Outreach ServiceEngineering Outreach Service
Biological & Agricultural Engineering DepartmentBiological & Agricultural Engineering Department
Crop & Soil Science DepartmentCrop & Soil Science Department
College of Agricultural & Environmental SciencesCollege of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Sponsored by the Georgia Pollution Prevention
Assistance Division (P2AD)
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