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New Missouri WWTP Enviro‐friendly
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2010.tb10104.x
Subject(s) - environmental science , biosolids , wetland , wastewater , sewage treatment , water quality , wildlife , truck , waste management , environmental engineering , engineering , ecology , biology , aerospace engineering
This article reports on upgrades to the Columbia (Missouri) Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant that serves more than 100,000 area residents. The improvements will enable the city of Columbia to handle increasing wastewater treatment demand more efficiently while improving the quality of treated water discharged into nearby wetlands. Black & Veatch designed the upgrades to improve reliability and reduce energy consumption. Among its many benefits, treated wastewater from the plant will meet new and future discharge requirements. The enhanced water quality will benefit wildlife habitats at the nearby Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area, which receives water discharged from the plant via a series of constructed wetlands that provide additional naturally occurring water treatment. A dewatering step will be added to the facility's existing solids‐processing method, reducing the need for liquid biosolids to be transported by tanker truck to an off‐site location.