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JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES

JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES. Virtual Plant Tour. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES Plant Overview. Joint Meeting founded in 1898 Original plant built in 1930’s and upgraded in 1970’s, 1990’s and 2000’s. Subsequent sludge dewatering and sludge drying operations

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JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES

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  1. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES Virtual Plant Tour

  2. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESPlant Overview • Joint Meeting founded in 1898 • Original plant built in 1930’s and upgraded in 1970’s, 1990’s and 2000’s. • Subsequent sludge dewatering and sludge drying operations • Plant rated capacity of 85 million gallons per day (mgd), average flow rate 67 mgd • Serves 64 square mile drainage area and 520,000 users • 43 miles of original and supplementary trunk lines

  3. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESPlant Overview • Wastewater Influent • Gravity Flow of Sanitary Wastes from Member Communities • Pumped Flow of Storm & Sanitary Wastes from City of Elizabeth

  4. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIES Simplified Process Flow Diagram Pretreatment Primary Treatment Secondary Treatment Mechanical Mixers Final Settling Tanks Flow Meter Chlorine Contact Tanks Sewage Pumps Primary Settling Tanks Grit Removal Screen Chamber Wastewater Influent Aeration Tanks RAS Waste Sludge Plant Outfall Primary Sludge Sludge Digesters Bio-solids Process Facility Land Application Sludge Storage Tanks Gravity Belt Thickeners Sludge Handling Facilities Bio-solids Handling

  5. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Wastewater Influent

  6. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Influent Screenings • Two Course Screens • Two Fine Screens

  7. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Grit Removal

  8. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Primary Settling Tanks • Four Tanks • Typically two tanks always in service/two tanks out of Service • Third & Fourth Tanks for Stormwater Flow surges

  9. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Aeration Tanks • Four Tanks • Mechanical Aerators

  10. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Final Settling Tanks • Four Circular Settling Tanks

  11. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Chlorine Contact Tanks

  12. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Solids Handling • Thickening • Gravity Thickening • Belt Filter Presses • Sludge Digestion • Sludge Dewatering • Sludge Drying

  13. JOINT MEETING OF ESSEX AND UNION COUNTIESVirtual Plant Tour • Plant Outfall • Discharges into Arthur Kill

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