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Conclusion<br />

1. Project is currently under construction and will come<br />

online by June of 2014<br />

2. CFD helped us understand clarifier failure mechanism<br />

but no cost effective improvements found<br />

3. <strong>Wet</strong> we<strong>at</strong>her flows receiving secondary tre<strong>at</strong>ment will<br />

be maximized by:<br />

– Incorpor<strong>at</strong>ing step feed for normal oper<strong>at</strong>ion and two wet we<strong>at</strong>her<br />

oper<strong>at</strong>ing modes<br />

– Addressing sludge settleability issues and providing tools to<br />

maintain well settling sludge<br />

– Implementing a high degree of autom<strong>at</strong>ion to accommod<strong>at</strong>e the<br />

highly dynamic winter time flows and simplify tre<strong>at</strong>ment plant<br />

oper<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

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