Major Projects

The biological process of treating the Hamlet's wastewater will include the existing anaerobic and facultative treatment processes with the treated effluent being discharged into a large capacity storage/evaporation pond. Anaerobic is the treatment that microorganisms do to break down waste matter in the absence of oxygen. The sludge that is created at this initial stage contains anaerobic bacteria and other beneficial microbes. These microorganisms digest the organic matter in the wastewater. The next step in the process is a facultative lagoon cell where the introduction of oxygen creates algae resulting in an aerobic zone, a facultative (mixed) zone, and an anaerobic zone that allows for further treatment of the wastewater by both anaerobic and  aerobic bacteria. The last stage of the treatment process is to move the treated effluent to a storage pond with a large surface area to allow the water to be evaporated into the atmosphere.