Wastewater Projects

Requests from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and concerns about the ability of the wastewater treatment plant to consistently meet discharge limits prompted the city of Oelwein to evaluate their existing plant. Performance and capacity shortfalls led the City to construct a new...

The City of North Liberty is a rapidly growing community and although the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is less than 10 years old, this rapid growth has caused hydraulic and organic overloading at the plant. In 2003 a Capacity and Evaluation Report was prepared for the existing facilities...

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The Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) was originally constructed as a two-stage, conventional, trickling filter plant (1973) with a small side-stream activated sludge facility (5 MGD) added in the mid-1990s to aid in organic removal. When industrial organic loadings increased in 2004, the...