The next Central Section of the Professional Wastewater Operators Committee meeting will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2016, and hosted by the City of Henderson Water Reclamation Facility.

This is an open meeting, and you do not have to be a member to attend.  Everyone is welcome.  There will also be a gift card given to one lucky attendee, so don’t miss out.

Lunch

Golden Corral

103 N. Cooper Drive

Henderson, NC

Please RSVP to Melinda Ward by 3/15/16 so that I can give the restaurant an accurate headcount.

(Make sure that you have money for a tip.  You can get it when you pay for your food.)

Technical Session

Tom Spain, Superintendent of the Henderson WRF, will be sharing what it has been like transitioning into a completely different plant process after so many years. 

Plant Tour

1646 West Andrews Avenue

Henderson, NC

The City of Henderson Water Reclamation Facility started out with two trickling filter plants on the opposite sides of the City, which are in two different river basins (Tar Pamlico and Roanoke).  The plant had an automatic barscreen, grit chamber with auger, six primary clarifiers, four two stage trickling filters, six secondary clarifiers, a pure oxygen activated sludge tank, four final clarifiers, four tertiary filters, a chlorine contact tank, and a post aeration tank.  The alkalinity for nitrification came from slaking lime in a lime tower.  All of the sludge was blended and thickened in a dissolve air flotation thickener and sent to a pure oxygen digester and then a two stage anaerobic digestion before being pumped to drying beds.  This plant had an incredible amount of equipment which made it very expensive to operate. We replaced most of the plant equipment in the past three years and concentrated on process simplification, reduction of the amount of equipment and nutrient removal.

Program Schedule

Lunch:  11:30 – 12:15

Technical Session:  12:15 – 1:15

Plant Tours:  1:30 – 3:00

Two contact hours for wastewater operators will be awarded to those attendees who participate in the Technical Session and the Tour (partial credit will not be given).

Please call Melinda Ward (336)627-1009, ext. 130 or Lloyd Prontaut (336)431-7708 with any questions.

For Directions, Google or MapQuest the addresses above.