The next meeting of the Western Section of the Professional Wastewater Operators Committee will be held Thursday, July 13, 2017 and will be hosted by Two Rivers Utilities at the Long Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is an open meeting, and membership is not required to attend.  Please share the agenda with others who may be interested. 

                          Lunch and Technical Presentation:                      Plant Tour:                                                                                                       

                          Golden Corral                                                            Long Creek WWTP                  

                          2300 E. Franklin Blvd.                                               3000 Old Spencer Mountain Road                                                                    

                          Gastonia, N.C. 28054                                                Dallas, N.C. 28034

                          (704) 868-7116                                                          (704) 854-6668

The Long Creek WWTP is a 16 MGD advanced BNR facility with an average flow of 6.1 MGD. Preliminary treatment consists of coarse mechanical barscreens and a grit chamber.  Flow then enters the main lift station where five influent pumps lift the influent flow to three primary clarifiers.  The primary clarifier effluent is combined with the RAS and the flow is then split into two biological treatment trains.  The biological treatment trains consist of anaerobic, anoxic and oxic basins.   Following the biological treatment trains, flow is combined and routed to a denitrification basin which consists of anoxic zones for further denitrification and oxic zones for reaeration. After the final clarifiers, flow is routed to gravity anthracite filters. After chlorination and dechlorination, flow is discharged to the South Fork Catawba River.  Solids are anaerobically digested and land-applied as liquid Class B biosolids.