Town of Havana Dedicates New Wastewater Facilities Upgrade
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On Tuesday, February 23 the Town of Havana dedicated a $6 million upgrade to their Wastewater Facility. The project took six month of expedited design to complete and received 80% of its funding through the State Revolving Fund and CDBG grants. The new design will give the town 1.0 mgd peak capacity in its wastewater facility.
Local dignitaries, including the Town Manager, L. Bradford Johnson, Mayor Decorkus Allen, and a number of Councilpersons were on hand for the ribbon cutting. Tim Banks with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection CWSRF and Gary Williams, Executive Director of the Florida Rural Water Association also attended as guest speakers.
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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
The Town of Havana is one of the oldest members of the Florida Rural Water Association, joining in 1982. We appreciate their continued support in keeping the drinking water clean in Havana.
The Town of Havana wastewater treatment plant had deficiencies primarily related to the facility's age and deterioration. The original facility was built in the late 1950s and some of the initial components were still in operation. In addition to the deterioration of the plant equipment and structural components, processes with older technology, such as Rotating Biological Contactors, and sludge drying beds, impaired the ability of the WWTF to provide efficient and reliable operation.
Together, Mott MacDonald, the Town of Havana and North Florida designed and upgraded the existing wastewater treatment plant with new facilities including an influent
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The Ceremony is Over. Now back to work.
pump station, headworks equipped with screens, vortex grit removal system, biotrickling filter odor control and carbon polisher, SBR treatment process, post equalization tank and pump station and sludge dewatering facilities. Other components included pump station No.6 upgrade, sludge transfer pump station, digesters rehabilitation, emergency bypass generator and operations building.
In order to secure the State Revolving fund grant and low interest rate loan, the project followed an accelerated design schedule. The design was completed in only six months.
Now the upgraded wastewater treatment plant reliably and cost-effectively provides high-level advanced wastewater treatment and 100% of the treated water will be used to irrigate the adjacent sprayfield.
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This Week in Water History
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Fertilizer from Activated Sludge and Flood in San Diego
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February 17, 1916: Municipal Journal article. Fertilizer from Activated Sludge. “Milwaukee, Wis.-The sewerage commission that is directing the construction of Milwaukee’s modern system of sewage disposal with a big plant on Jones island, operated by the new activated sludge method, is about ready to experiment with the sludge deposits left after streams of sewage have been purified. Chief engineer Hatton believes that this sludge can be manufactured into a commercial fertilizer which will command a market value ranging from $10 to $20 per ton. If the experiments are successful the sludge will be the source of considerable revenue which will decrease the operating expenses of the system which with its large intercepting sewers draining the whole city, will cost $10,000,000 or more. A special building will be erected for the treatment of the refuse to be worked into fertilizer form. Nine of the large concrete tanks recently built for the treatment of continuous flows of sewage are in operation and the other two will soon be ready.”
For more articles on what went on this week in water history, click here.
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