Wastewater Long Range Facilities Planning - Palo Alto's Regional Water Quality Control Plant
: It has been in operation since 1934 and now serves 6 communities including Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Stanford, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. Aging equipment, new regulatory requirements, and the movement to full sustainability will require rehabilitation, replacement and new processes. The Long Range Facilities Plan will map out these changes and focus on biosolids treatment and disposal, waste-to-energy technologies, energy use, major pipeline repairs, recycled water treatment, carbon footprint impacts, and the best alternatives for rehabilitation, replacement or improvement.
The steps in treatment process are preliminary, primary, secondary, and tertiary. In preliminary treatment, the large particles are removed. In primary treatment, the water pumps to the tank. The smaller particles are collected on the bottom. In secondary treatment, the bacterial organism eat the waste. During tertiary treatment, tiny particles are filter and passes time compressed. Then, UV light kill rest of bacterias that are harm for human.
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Hi Yeana,
ReplyDeleteThank you for succinctly explaining the different stages of the water treatment process. This helped me to gain a better understanding of this. Despite living in close proximity to one another, it is interesting how our water can come from multiple sources.
Hello Yeana,
ReplyDeleteIt was helpful to see the process for water treatment laid out so well. It is interesting that the Palo Alto Plant is in need of modernization and updating. I am curious what that construction means for the plant's functionality. Will it continue to operate through contruction?