Sewage Filtration And Water Treatment

WDEF News reports:

At least one public waterway in Monteagle was polluted Sunday when a primary treatment basin failed at the city’s waste-water treatment plant.

Almost a 100-thousand gallons of effluent went into Juanita Creek.

Monteagle has two wastewater treatment plants…and this was plant number consisting of an above-ground steel tank.

Monteagle has also begun chlorinating the bypass into Juanita Creek.

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(Effluent usually means water pollution, like the output from a wastewater treatment plant or discharge from factories or other industrial sources. Effluent sump pumps, pump waste from toilets installed under the level of local sewer. When talking about waste water treatment plants, treated effluent is often referred to as “secondary effluent”. This semi-treated water is often used to to feed biofilters with bacteria. [Wikipedia])