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HOW THE
AQUA SAFE®
SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM FUNCTIONS
The Aqua Safe
sewage treatment plant in many ways is a scaled down
version of larger township and municipality sewage
treatment plants. It employs an extended aeration
activated sludge process. This type of treatment depends
primarily upon the use of air that is introduced by
passing from the blower to four (4) air lines located
around the perimeter of the mixing chamber.
Ecological Tanks Inc., Aqua Safe plants are made up of an
outer mixing tank and a center settling chamber called a
clarifier. Raw unsettled wastewater from your home enters
directly into the mixing tank where simple hydraulic
displacement is accomplished by the introduction of air
which promotes the growth of aerobic organisms in much
larger amounts than would occur naturally. These break
down the organic solids in the wastewater.
From the outer mixing tank or aeration chamber, mixed
liquid enters the cone shaped settling chamber, better
known as the clarifier, from the bottom. No mixing occurs
in this quiet zone where solids separate from the liquid
and settle to the bottom of the clarifier and re-enter the
mixing chamber. The liquid that separates from the solids
in the clarifier continue to flow upward to the discharge
pipe.
The results of the Aqua Safe process is a clear, odorless
effluent discharge, which meets or exceeds state water
quality standards.
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