The Hidden Costs of Replacing a Lagoon with a Mechanical Plant
When confronted with new effluent limits, many municipalities feel their only option is to scrap their otherwise adequate lagoon system and replace it with a mechanical plant, such as an activated sludge, SBR, or MBBR treatment process. There’s a better option: A lagoon can be upgraded to remove ammonia, total nitrogen, and phosphorus; treat BOD […]
Cost-Effective Lagoon Phosphorus Removal: Triplepoint’s PhosBox
Nutrient removal is one of the most pressing challenges facing lagoon operators. State EPAs, in the interest of protecting waterways, have been enacting increasingly stringent effluent requirements for ammonia, nitrogen, and phosphorus. (A previous blog, Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus: The Crackdown Is Coming, covers this subject in detail.) Triplepoint’s NitrOx® Process is a proven solution for ammonia […]
Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus Removal Methods
In Part 1 on this two-part article on wastewater lagoon phosphorus, Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus: The Crackdown Is Coming, we outlined its sources and the reasons regulating bodies are beginning to add phosphorus effluent limits to permits. Part 2 will present an overview of methods of phosphorus removal from wastewater lagoons. Pathways of Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus Removal […]
Wastewater Lagoon Phosphorus: The Crackdown Is Coming
In previous blog posts, we’ve discussed lagoon ammonia, including its sources and how to treat it. In this two-part article, we’ll begin to tackle the other half of the nutrients puzzle: wastewater lagoon phosphorus. Part 1 will cover the sources of lagoon phosphorus and the problems environmental phosphorus can cause. The upcoming Part 2 will […]