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Water and Wastewater Notes November 2022

November 20, 2022 by Wayne Creed Leave a Comment

Wastewater plant averaged 121,089 gallons a day as of Nov.1. November 6th had the highest output with135,309 gallons a day. The plant staff continues to keep up normal maintenance on the plant and its collection system. All lift stations are performing up to standard.

Note: A wastewater lift station is a pumping station that moves wastewater from a lower elevation to a higher elevation. The benefit of using a lift station in a sewage collection system is that it saves a substantial amount of money in excavation costs, which involves digging for sewer pipes. 

The Utility staff finished a repair on a small leak in the vacuum system just outside of the Heron
Pointe station.


Water Plant staff performed routine maintenance processes including filter backwashing and softener
regenerations, and kept up daily water quality testing and analysis

The plant operated for 64.25 hours with the average daily operation of 9.2 hours, produced 1,050,178 gallons. 130,000 gallons was used for processes
The average daily production was 50,025 gallons, peaking off at 181,671 on 11/05/22.

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