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River Waste Water Treatment Plant |
From:
Inspector's Quarterly
A
Quarterly Newsletter from Quality Control Inspection
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128 MGD Plant
Expansion to be Complete this Year
To keep up with
the ever increasing wastewater demand on Cleveland's west side, the
City of Rocky River is meeting the challenge head on with an $11 million
expansion of its sewer plant.
City officials,
recognizing that the project would require more resources than what
was available on staff, turned to QCI to handle the contract administration
and inspection. "It's gone extremely smooth for such a large and
complex project," says Susan Schmall, QCI's lead project representative.
The existing
plant, was last upgraded in the early 1960s and currently serves
Rocky River and the neighboring cities of Westlake, Bay Village
and Fairview Park. When completed later this year, the capacity
will have been increased from 45 to 128 million gallons per day.
The main parts
of the project - four clarifier tanks and a new enlarged screening
and grit facility - will accommodate the increase in flow volume.
The tanks include a sludge pump and sediment flushers to clean out
the tanks. Workers also are replacing two 10,000-gallon ferric chloride
storage tanks. When the clarifier tanks, screening building and
grit tank are on-line, workers will finish other aspects of the
project.
They include:
- Covering
two sludge thickener tanks
- Renovating
two primary digesters that reduce and break down the sludge
- Replacing
the sluice gates that divert flow.
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