Fairhope, Alabama
CONSTRUCTION COMPLETED UNDER BUDGET
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Councilman Burrell, Mayor Kant at center |
After a ribbon cutting by councilman Burrell, Mayor Kant, construction contractors and plant operators -- sewage plant manager Dan McRory conducted a tour of the facility highlighting upgrades to the intake filtering system, emergency generator, additional "fuzzy" filters and final sterilization of the effluent by ultraviolet light which then discharges via a three thousand foot, thirty inch diameter pipe down the gully and well out into the bay.
The emergency 1.5 KW generator is fully enclosed to limit noise and can operate for a week to power the entire plant -- on one tank of fuel.
Although confident of the purity of the final eflfuent, McRory declined to take a sip of it.
According to a press release:
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new intake filters |
"The
City’s goal is not to just comply with our National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (or NPDES) permit limits but to clean our wastewater
better than anyone and to keep the highest of water quality in our
streams and Bay to enjoy. The upgrades provide additional nutrients
removal and enhanced the effluent quality to ensure that the effluent
that leaves the facility much cleaner than regulatory requirements.
The
current upgrades were completed in February and the construction
contract amount was $100,000 under budget at the time of completion."
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new "fuzzy" filters |
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clean effluent from fuzzy filters |
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final ultra violet treatment |
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