More capacity & security for chemical storage
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Chemical storage building and feed system
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Modern wastewater treatment processes require
chemicals to aid in the removal of pollutants from the
sanitary sewage before it is discharged to the
environment.
In 1999 at the Metropolitan Syracuse Wastewater Treatment Plant, the Onondaga County Department of Water Environment Protection (WEP) revamped its chemical
feed system to meet new New York State chemical bulk storage
regulations.
WEP constructed a new chemical storage building and
feed system along with the ancillary facilities of a
new gas compressor station, new sludge polymer feed
pumps, and related piping. The new facilities were
operational in 2000. They provide more secure storage
of chemicals.
With the related piping and site improvements, the new
facilities also can pump the required volume of
chemicals to treat the volume of sanitary sewage that
the plant receives.
This is one more piece that WEP has put in place
to improve treatment at the plant and to improve the
water quality of Onondaga Lake.
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Susan Miller, Project Deputy Director
Onondaga County Dept of Water Environment Protection