Wastewater Treatment

class enough to grasp the concept of Wastewater Treatment. This report is

an overview of each stage of the treatment of sewage. I have included a diagram of a typical sewage plant.

The wastewater that enters a treatment plant contains debris that

might clog or damage the pumps and machinery. The material is

removed by screens, and is burned or buried. The wastewater then passes

through a comminutor (grinder), where all the organic material such as

leaves are mushed smaller so that they can be removed later.

Back in the day, long narrow channel-shaped settling tanks, known

as grit chambers, were used to remove all the inorganic substances like

sand, silt, gravel, and cinders. These chambers were made to allow

inorganic particles 0.008 in. or bigger to settle at the bottom while the

smaller particles and most of the organic material that remain in

suspension pass through. Today, spiral-flow aerated grit chambers with

hopper bottoms, or clarifiers with automatic scrapper arms

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)