Zeeland Waste Water Treatment Plant -- Design flow 1.65
mpg, three primary settling tanks, six aeration basins, with fine bubble
air diffusion, one 46 foot diameter and two 35 foot diameter final
clarifiers, 1.25 acres of polishing ponds, four sludge storage tanks, and
four buildings which house an office, laboratory, shop, sludge pumps,
blowers, influent and effluent pump stations, sludge thickening equipment,
lime feed equipment, and aluminum chloride feed equipment. In 2000, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency awarded Zeeland one of the four
best-operated plants in the Region.
From and EPA
Region 5 press release July 18,2000
EPA NAMES ZEELAND, MI
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
PLANT AMONG BEST OPERATED
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Region 5 has named the Zeeland, MI, wastewater treatment plant
among the four best-operated plants in the Region. The others are
all in Indiana.
Zeeland (First Place, Medium Advanced
category), received the award for: excellent pollutant removal; not
exceeding its discharge permit limits for three years; its
outstanding pretreatment program for discharges from industry; using
a technique, which does not interrupt service to customers, for
relining sewers; and installing a process to remove ammonia. The
plant discharges into the North Branch of the Black River and serves
a population of 8,700.
EPA presented the award on July 20,
10 a.m., at the Zeeland Community Center.
