Waste Water Secrets What Happens After You Flush The Toilet

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Waste Water Secrets What Happens After You Flush
The Toilet?
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• The second we flush, it is all over for most of
  us. But for others, the process of treating
  wastewater has just begun. If you ever wondered
  where it goes, or more important where it ends
  up, we will attempt to answer that question by
  taking you through the entire process.

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Its Part of Every Home and Office

• Every home and business has water and generates
  wastewater. Once wastewater is flushed, it
  travels down a lateral into a main pipe that is
  propelled by the power of gravity. The water then
  eventually travels to the wastewater treatment
  plant. The wastewater travels through miles of
  pipes before eventually arriving at the plant.

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Its Part of Every Home and Office

• A wastewater plant can treat wastewater from
  residential and commercial buildings. The plant
  is designed to clean the sewage water, which once
  cleaned, is discharged to a nearby river. Before
  the water can be discharged to a nearby river, it
  has been processed in such a way, that it comes
  very close to tap water.

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Testing Water for Pathogens

• All water, be it coming into the plant of being
  discharged from the plant, will undergo testing
  for pathogens. This is to assess the quality of
  the water, and whether there is something to be
  concerned about.

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Pumping Out Waste Water

• Sometimes, gravity cant do its job on delivering
  the wastewater. In that case, the wastewater must
  be pumped out using powerful pumps that suck out
  the water from the underground reservoir. Often,
  this process is carried out in designated lift
  stations where the water pumping process takes
  place. Once the lift station can lift the water,
  it then pumps it back into the pipes to let once
  again gravity take over in delivering the
  wastewater to its destination.

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The Treatment Process

• As wastewater enter the treatment plant, it first
  is filtered through a bar screen which is
  designed to remove solids. In fact, you can find
  a variety of things that can come through
  wastewater including, but not limited to diapers,
  underwear, bricks, toys and even false teeth. The
  bar screen is cleaned through a mechanical rake
  system, this system helps separate the trash away
  from the wastewater. This non-organic matter is
  then separated and hauled out to the landfill for
  disposal. More advanced wastewater treatment
  facilities can shred the non-organic materials
  into a fine powder which can then be easily
  hauled to the landfill.

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Grease Ball Formation

• Once the wastewater passes through the bar
  screen, it makes it way to the wet well, where
  grease is collected, grease balls will naturally
  form where lots of grease meets each other. When
  grease is dumped down the toilet, it forms a ball
  with any solid waste item. A good example that
  comes to mind is the grease forming around a
  cigarette bud or a dish rag. Accordingly, these
  grease balls must be collected by staff every
  week or so.

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Time to Appreciate Your Toilet

• Now that you know how your toilet works, youll
  begin to wonder how does the Pennsylvania
  Industrial Water Treatment works, certainly it is
  far more complex than regular wastewater
  treatment.

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Contact Us

• Get more detail about Pennsylvania Industrial
  Water Treatment works. So, visit our website or
  give us call.
• Website
• www.jnblabs.com
• Phone
• 215-485-0226