City of Anderson to Dedicate Upgraded Water Pollution Control Plant Filtration Facility

ANDERSON, IN - The City of Anderson will dedicate the upgraded effluent filter facilities at the Water Pollution Control Plant, 2801 Gene Gustin Way, at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Mayor Kris Ockomon will participate in the dedication ceremony. Tours of the plant will be given for visitors following the dedication.

This project to rehabilitate the 30-year-old effluent filters allowed the city to cost effectively meet current compliance requirements to eliminate the plant’s effluent filter bypass, while improving the safety, ease, and reliability of filter operation and maintenance at a much lower capital cost than building new filter facilities at the plant.

Upgrades that were made as part of the $3 million project, which was constructed without a rate increase, include: converting the water-only filter backwash system to a simultaneous air/water backwash; using a more effective coarse sand filter media; replacing hydraulic oil actuators with safer electric actuators; and upgrading the previous controls for the backwash system.

In addition to providing greater operational flexibility and reducing maintenance, the rehabilitated effluent filter facilities will provide more dependable filtration under both dry and wet weather flow conditions to maintain effluent quality to meet NPDES permit limits. The upgraded facilities have also increased filtration capacity, which will allow the city to meet the future needs for its Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Long-Term Control Plan.

Source: City of Anderson Press Release