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Water and Wastewater Plant Directory
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St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
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St. Joseph Water Pollution Control Plant
6800 759 Hwy.
St. Joseph, Missouri, 64504
USA
Contact Information:
Contact: Don Gilpin, Superintendent
Email:
wpc@ci.st-joseph.mo.us
Telephone: (816) 271-4693
Fax: (816) 238-8701
Plant Operation: Municipal
Processing: Wastewater
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Web site:
http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/publicworks/wpc.asp
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Plant/Process Description:
The Wastewater Treatment Plant is a major
investment. St. Joseph operates twenty-two
wastewater pumping stations. The treatment plant
itself covers many acres, has thousands of square
feet of buildings, and requires twenty-four hour
a day staffing by highly-trained personnel. The
operations personnel are required by state law to
be licensed.
The Wastewater Treatment Plant mimics nature in
its processes. In preliminary treatment, the
treatment facility removes large objects from the
wastewater stream. These are typically inorganic
in nature, for example; tires, logs, bricks, etc.
From that point, the wastewater goes into a
primary treatment phase. In the primary treatment
phase we use a process called clarification.
Primary clarifiers work by slowing the flow down
to where it appears to almost stand still. In the
primary clarifiers, fats, oils, and grease are
floated to the surface and are skimmed off for
further treatment. Settable solids fall to the
bottom of the clarifiers and are pumped off for
treatment in our solids treatment process.
The flow leaving our primary clarifiers is pumped
to roughing filters. This is the start of our
secondary treatment process. In the secondary
treatment process, we try to concentrate and
accelerate the processes of nature. In the
roughing filters, the wastewater is sprayed over
a plastic media where we grow microorganisms that
feed on pollutants in the water. This mimics
nature similar to where you see a green moss
growth in fast moving streams. The organisms
growing off these rocks are feeding off
contaminants in the water. The water leaves this
process then enters the activated sludge
process.
In the activated sludge process we provide heavy
concentrations of oxygen, microorganisms, and
food (contaminants) to finish cleaning the water.
From this process the flow is then sent to the
secondary clarifiers. What remaining solids that
are left in the wastewater settle to the bottom
and are recycled to the treatment plant. The
effluent leaving these clarifiers discharges to
the Missouri River and is typically clean enough
that you can see at least to a depth of three to
four feet compared to a clarity of only inches in
the river.
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Owner:
City of St.Joseph
Web site:
http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/
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Operating Company:
City of St.Joseph
Web site:
http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us/
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