Go Inside: An Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant

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Process Engineer Miguel Miranda explains the science behind cleaning the sewage of millions of people to a crystal clear standard--effluent that is released into the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay beyond, the biggest estuary in the United States.
Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment process brochure https://www.dcwater.com/sites/default/files/documents/2021-02/blue_plains_plant_brochure_2020_final.pdf

0:00 Welcome to Blue Plains
0:49 Headworks screens
2:02 Odor control
2:15 Efficient pumps
2:36 What "Advanced" means
2:59 Primary clarifiers
3:36 Miguel's role as a Senior Process Engineer
4:01 Inside the control room
6:15 First biological process: heterotrophic bacteria
7:54 Reusing the bacteria
8:19 Nitrification/denitrification reactors
8:45 Giving the bacteria time to work
9:15 Fish tank
9:45 Effluent water sample
10:14 Rejuvenating the Potomac River
10:40 Bloom, Class A biosolids
11:12 A process that "enhances nature" on a much larger scale
11:28 Miguel's dream