Citizens Academy 2019 -- Second Week at the Wastewater Treatment Plant

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After hearing about stormwater management and the flood wall, we're ready to tour!

First stop is where all the garbage that is not sewerage is pulled out of the water...

....by several of these big combing machines

Just a sample of all the things in wastewater that are not biodegradable

We have to take several large containers of this to the landfill daily; and even throughout the night when it rains. Who flushed a Big Gulp cup? And also, flushable wipes do not flush. Put them in the trash can, not the toilet.

Outside the filtration building

Now the combed out water is ready to treat

Geese like to hang out at the Wastewater Treatment Plant, but this group is heading to Florida

We thought these were bats eating bugs and mosquitoes, but a Twitter follower said they're probably chimney swift birds.

Separating this stuff from the water

Night falls at the Wastewater Plant and class is dismissed!