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APPENDIX H ENGINEER’S REPORT ON PLANT PROBLEMS, APRIL 2012 BULL HIDE CREEK WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT CHALLENGES AND STARTUP OF THE STATE’S NEWEST PLANT WITH PHOSPHORUS LIMITS Paul Wood P.E., Sarah M. Berkey P.E., Meredith G. McCullough P.E., Michael Jupe Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. 2925 Briarpark Drive, Suite 400 Houston, TX 77042 OVERVIEW The Bull Hide Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is located in Lorena, Texas, and is owned and operated by the Waco Metropolitan Area Regional Sewer System (WMARSS), a joint wastewater treatment effort established by the Cities of Bellmead, Hewitt, Lacy Lakeview, Lorena, Robinson, Waco, and Woodway. By sharing centralized service facilities among its member cities, WMARSS has helped to reduce the potential environmental impacts associated with the development of multiple wastewater treatment plants, each dedicated to a single entity. Further, its regionalization efforts have contributed to the protection and preservation of numerous natural resources. Finally, the planning and development of regional facilities has resulted in a reduction in the costs associated with wastewater collection, treatment and disposal, which has assisted the WMARSS member entities in maintaining affordable rates for their customers. As the newest addition of the WMARSS system, the Bull Hide Creek WWTP began operation in February of 2012. The facility serves the cities of Lorena and Hewitt and allows a portion of the load previously treated at the WMARSS Central WWTP, as well as the City of Lorena’s existing WWTP (which is being decommissioned), to be offloaded. The facility was designed to treat an average daily flow rate of 1.5 million gallons per day (MGD) and a peak two-hour flow rate of 4,167 gallons per minute (GPM). The plant’s current Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) effluent discharge permit, issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), contains a daily average phosphorus limit of 1.0 mg/l and CBOD/TSS/NH3N limits of 7/15/3 mg/l, respectively. The plant is designed to obtain the stipulated phosphorus limits biologically, with chemical backup. 103
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DEDICATION I dedicate this thesis t
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NOMENCLATURE BHCCWA CAFO EPA ETJ LU
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5.2 Role of the Researcher ........
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1. INTRODUCTION: THE ROLE OF PERCEI
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2. BACKGROUND: GENERAL ISSUES ASSOC
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wastewater treatment plant in their
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3. LITERATURE REVIEW 3.1. Uncertain
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economic organization, are categori
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3.2. The Psychological Model of Ris
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“Just get it over with because it
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culture, those judged to be “norm
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Dake also explored the role of soci
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will be conducted out again in 2013
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The research showed that people, wh
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attenuation of risk signals and per
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analysis takes the form not of rela
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need and the object, between his li
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influence is derived from meeting v
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communication produces honesty, tra
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5. METHODS 5.1. Research Techniques
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for Proposal) through open records
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Smith, 2009b). This included a laws
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the risks this plant would present
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and Lorena were considering wastewa
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Hewitt joined the Waco Metropolitan
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would result from regional wastewat
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available (Statement of larry todd,
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community and among the other stake
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