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Alexander City, Alabama, USA
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Alexander City Wastewater Treatment Plants
P.O. Box 552
Alexander City, Alabama, 35011-0552
USA
Contact Information:
Contact: Shelby Richardson
Email:
sugarcreekwwtp@bellsouth.net
Telephone: 256-409-2031
Fax: 256-329-9955
Plant Operation: Municipal
Processing: Wastewater
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Web site:
http://www.alexandercityonline.com/wastewater.htm
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Plant/Process Description:
The City of Alexander City operates 2 types of
wastewater plants, Industrial Advanced
Wastewater Treatment Plant, (Sugar Creek AWWTP),
and Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant, (Coley
Creek WWTP). Each of these wastewater treatment
plants have different types of operation modes.
The Sugar Creek Plant is more difficult and
expensive to operate. In addition, the city has
a total of 19 lift stations that pump wastewater
to these wastewater treatment plants.
The Sugar Creek AWWTP is classified as a Grade
IV plant and has a design capacity of 8.5 MGD
(million gallons per day) with a peak of 20 MGD.
At this present time, this plant is only
operating at 60% of the design capacity. The
Sugar Creek Plant is staffed with 12 highly
trained personnel because of the highly
sophisticated equipment. This plant operates and
is staffed 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The
Coley Creek WWTP is classified as a Grade III
Plant and has a design capacity of 1.9 MGD with
a peak of 6 MGD. This plant operates 24 hours a
day 7 days per week and is staffed 8 hours a day
7 days a week.
The Sugar Creek AWWTP and Coley Creek WWTP
operate under the National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) Permit, which
describes the discharge limitation and
monitoring requirements set by ADEM. These
testing parameters have to be analyzed according
to the Standard Methods for the Examination of
Water and Wastewater. The testing parameters for
the Sugar Creek Plant are Llow (MGD)
Carbonaceous Biological Oxygen Demand (CBOD),
Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Ammonia Nitrogen
(NH3N), Nitrate (NO2N), Total Phosphorus (PO4P),
pH, Total Residual Chlorine (TRC), Dissolved
Oxygen (DO), color American Dye Manufacture
Institute (ADMI), Fecal Coliform, and Chronic
toxicity. The Coley Creek Plant has the same
testing parmateters except for color. The result
of each parameter is recorded on the Discharge
Monitoring Report (DMR) each month, where each
of these parameters have limitation on what can
be discharged. If you fail to meet the required
limitations, you will receive a violation letter
and possible fines from ADEM.
The Sugar Creek Plant has 1 certified
superintendent, 1 certified chief operator, 3
certified operators, 2 lab personnel (also
certified operators), 2 maintenance personnel,
and 3 biosolids handling personnel. The Coley
Creek Plant has 2 certified operators. Every
operator has to be certified by Alabama
Department of Environmental Management (ADEM).
All operators have to attend 24 hours of
schooling to keep their certification.
The Sugar Creek Laboratory and its personnel
also have to be cerfitied by ADEM to analyze
wastewater. Our laboratory also analyzes
wastewater from the Coley Creek WWTP. In
addition to being certified in wastewater
testing, our lab is also certified by Alabama
Department of Public Health to analyze drinking
water for bacteriological testing.
The Sugar Creek Maintenance personnel are highly
trained and are responsible for all the
maintenance and troubleshooting at the Sugar
Creek Plant and Coley Creek Plant. In addition,
they are also responsible for all the
maintenance and up keep of the 19 lift stations
located around the city.
The Biosolids personnel have to be highly
trained to operate sophisticated equipment and
use chemicals efficiently to remove the solids
from the plant. We have a crew of 3: 1 to
operate the belt press, 1 to haul slude, and1 to
spread the sludge.
The biosolids program is another complicated
process at the Sugar Creek Plant. This process
uses polymer to remove solids, known as sludge,
from the wastewater. Once the polymer is added,
the sludge is sent through a belt press to
squeeze out the water and form a cake solid. The
cake colids are loaded into a dump truck and
hauled to a permitted land site to be spread.
The sludge from the Coley Creek Plant is pumped
into a tanker an hauled to Sugar Creek Plant to
be combined with Sugar Creek sludge before being
land applied. It is very important the land site
is permitted before any sludge is allowed on
land. The sludge has to meet certain
requirements set by the United State
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before it
leaves the plant. The sludge has to be analyzed
for metals, nutrients, and fecal every 2 months.
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Owner:
City of Alexander
Web site:
http://www.alexandercityonline.com/
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Operating Company:
City of Alexander
Web site:
http://www.alexandercityonline.com/
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