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Show ffTfre Page B4 Thursday, January 8, 2004 ATtmeg-nhepenfre- nt must deal with septic dumps from the National Parks, the BLM and private outhouse businesses. Septic dumps are 100 times stronger than influent water and are therefore diluted. After the sludge is diluted and oxygen is added, it is sent to the bottoms of the primary clarifiers, and from there, pumped directly to the primary digester. Mesophyllic bacteria live in the primary digesters, which process the sludge between temperatures 80 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The sludge is then sent to the secondary digester and from there is dumped into one of 8 sludgedrying beds. The drying beds are three feet deep when wet and six inches deep when dry. During the summer months a bed is filled approximately every three weeks and in the winter months, approximately every five weeks. The EPA requires that sewage sludge is dry before it is hauled to the landfill that air locked a pump on Christmas Day 2002. The Wild Ride By the time sewage-o- r influen t- - has reached the treatment plant it will be 99 The dark bacteria growing on the rocks in the trickling filters at the citys wastewater treatment plant Photo by Michelle Wiley converts influent wastewater to effluent wastewater. Down the drain: A tour of Moab's wastewater treatment plant is revealing included in the above figure, by Michelle Wiley contributing writer Last year more than paintbrush is rinsed out in the 327million gallons of sewage was treated by Moab Citys tooth-brushin- g, . sink, the wastewater flows down the drain, through a wastewater treatment plant. All of Grand Countys (save the minority on septic systems) and showering is toilet-flushin- Greg Fosse, Moab City Wastewater Treatment Plant and each time dishes are washed after dinner or a sewer pipe, out to the waste-wate- a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week, 365 days a year. The entire system is computerized and there is a generator for r treatment plant and eventually to the Colorado g, Lead Operator, and Rick Reeves, Assistant Operator, are employed by the City of Moab to run the show from 8 River. Attend the church of your percent water, due to dilution from showers, washing machines and running plain water for other purposes, and enters the treatment plant as dark grayish-brow- n and with a moderate sewer smell. The influent is lifted up by one of two twisting screw pipes and into a channel that will deliver it to a par shall flume and through a bar screen, where solids, such as rags and grit, are automatically screened out and dumped into trash cans. After the influent goes through its initial screening for solids, it is circulated through a comminuter, or channel monster, as Fosse and Reeves refer to it. The communiter is equipped with a grinder that will grind any material (usually sticks or other narrow or fine debris) that makes it through the initial bar screen. From there the influent moves through, the grit removal chamber, which has an industrial, abovegrou- quality to it and has paddles located in its cavity that spin, causing the influent to rush about like a whirlpool, which forces heavy grit to the sides of the chamber and encourages settlement. The grit is then removed with an airlift pump and sent to the grit separator. Once the influent has been screened for grit three times, it flows to a splitter box, a box that splits the flow evenly to two primary clarifiers, which, nd-pool-like Fahrenheit) would be Quaker Worship Group Sundays, 10 a.m., Family Resource Center Self Storage 81 N. 300 E 1 5 sizes - 2 locations 1 1191 S.Hwy. 191- 259-599- Complete line of Auto Parts 322 S. 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Also informal and ongoing book and movie discussion (La Sal). gatherings.Call For some interesting reading see desiringGod.org, and searchmgtogether.org 686-258- 2 River of Life Christian Fellowship Two miles south of Moab, Hwy. 1 91 Worship 10:00 a.m. - 6 p.m. First Baptist Church SBC Wallace Thames, Pastor -- Adult Bible School 0 420 MiVida Dr. - Info: School 9:45 Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m. 259-731- Grace Lutheran Church 360 West 400 North Rev. Dave Dahl Bible Study 8:30 a.m. Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m. Sunday Friends in Christ Free Lutheran Church Worship Service 9 a.m. 1266 S. Hwy. 191 (Next to Ol' Geezer Meats) 8 0 or Pastor Rich Evans 259-437- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 3 25 West Dogwood Ave., 10:00 a.m. Sunday Meeting 259-736- 259-404- St. Michaels Catholic Church Mass 6 p.m. Saturday Moab Baptist Church 3 356 W. Kane Creek Blvd. Pastor Cole Howe Sunday School 10 a.m. Sunday Morning Svc. 1 1 a.m. Sunday Evening Svc. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Evening Svc. 7 p.m. 259-349- Adventist Church Seventh-da- y 4581 Spanish Valley Dr. S.S. 9:30 a.m. Saturday Worship Service 1 1 a.m. Saturday 5 For information: 259-554- Church of Episcopal Church of St. Francis 1 250 Kane Creek Rd. 10:30 a.m. Sunday - Holy Eucharist - English 7 p.m. (Tuesday) - Martes - Santa Eucaristia - Espandl Church of Christ 259-669- all-da- morning service, evening service to follow. St. Pius X Church 112W400 North 59-5211 7 p.m. Mass Saturday, Apr. 1 - Oct. 1 5:30 p.m. Mass Saturday, Oct. 1 - Apr. 9 a.m. Every Sunday 1 Green River Bible Church Main & Howard St., Green River Pastor Kirk Dunham 564-887- 6 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 1 1 a.m. Worship Service 6 p.m. Evening Worship Service Church of God 10 a.m. Sunday Sch., 11 a.m. Worship Svc. 6 p.m. Sunday evening worship 7 p.m. Wednesday & Saturday 143 S. 3rd E. (1 block W. Apache Motel) Pastor Jack Reed 1 Saints First Ward 259-583- Meeting at 456 Emma Blvd. (behind the North Maverik Country Store) Preacher, Chuck Marshall Sunday Morning Bible Class 10 a.m.; Morning Worship 1 1 a.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m. Wednesday Evening Bible Class 7 p.m. 0 for more information. Call y 4th Sunday services with potluck after Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Bishop Ronald D. Ferguson 9 a.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 10:20 a.m. Sunday Sch. 11:10 a.m. Organizations Second Ward Bishop Merrill Hugentobler 11 a.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 12:20 p.m. Sunday Sch. 1:10 p.m. Organizations Third Ward Bishop Vert Packard p.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 2:20 p.m. Sunday Sch. 3:10 p.m. Organizations Fourth Ward Bishop Ned Dalton 11 a.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 12:20 p.m. Sunday Sch. 1:10 p.m. Organizations Fifth Ward Bishop Ken Bishoff 9 a.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 10:20 a.m. Sunday Sch. 11:10 a.m. Organizations Green River First Ward Bishop Nolan Johnson 10 a.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 11:15 a.m. Sunday Sch. 12:10 p.m. Organizations Castle Valley 8 Castle Valley Dr., President Otis Willoughby 11:50 a.m. Sacrament Mtg.; 10:55 a.m. Sunday Sch. 10:00 a.m. Organizations 1 259-702- Four Corners Faith & Worship Ministries For meeting times & location call Ross or Kelly Olson, 259-004- 1. to City Manager, Donna Metzler, the city has budgeted. $120,000 from SVWSID for the upcoming year. With increasing growth in Spanish Valley, SVWSID voted unanimously last month to pass a resolution that the district shall be responsible for, its pro rata share of capital improvements to the treatment plant.... Metzler However, want doesnt sayS,The City SVWSID to pay their pro rata share. We want them to pay for upgrades to the treatment plant that reflect their growth in the valley. According to Metzler, SVWSID is currently responsible for approximately 20 per- cent of the treatment plants usage. If SVWSID pays for its pro rata share of upgrades to the plant over the next several years, it will pay 20 percent of the costs even if 80 percent of the growth is in Spanish Valley. The treatment plant is carunning at about said Fosse. pacity right now, s And currently about of the households that use the treatment plant are located within the city limits. I dont see the treatment plant needing much in the way of upgrades in the near future. Brent Williams, re- two-thir- quired to pass as a Class A biosolid. Fosse says that locals have approached him about acquiring the sludge for amending their garden soil, however, it is illegal for the Moab City Wastewater Treatment Plant to distribute sewage sludge because higher temperatures are required to kill all pathogens. two-third- Public Works Director, echoed Fosses statements. Negotiations are still in the works for a new sewer agreement between the City and Finances and Politics Last year the city spent approximately $680,000 on SVWSID. Southeast Applied Technology College NOW OFFERING: above-ground-swimmi- A-- 1 Water Sewer Improvement District (SVWSID), which provides sewer services for Spanish Valley residents and does not have its own treatment plant. Accord-in- g to reduce leaching. The end product is considered a Class B biosolid. More sterilization at higher temperatures (160 degrees again, resemble concrete Church Page Sponsors: the wastewater treatment plant, and roughly $100,000 of that figure came from Spanish Valley The treatment plant back up in case ofan emergency, however, Fosse and Reeves are on call at all times if something is to go awry, like the WD-4- 0 cap pools, although these are 15 feet deep and still. A shimmer arm skims grease and other floatables from the surface of the water, though the main objective of the primary clarifiers is to settle out sludge, which is humane waste. From the primary clarifiers the influent is gravity fed up to the trickling filters, which are large cement vessels filled 15 feet deep with rocks. The influent then trickles down through the rocks, which have a combination of algae and an introduced bacteria that converts the influent wastewater to effluent wastewater. Once the influent trickles through the rocks and is converted into effluent, the wastewater is sent to the final clarifiers, where chlorine gas is injected into the water to kill bacteria, such as e. coli. A rake located in the bottom of each final clarifier settles anything out that has made it through thus far. Compared to the influent wastewater at the screw pipe, the effluent wastewater in the final clarifier is clear and smells slightly of chlorine. Weekly testing is performed on the effluent waste-watfor fecal and total coliform counts by an accredited lab in Salt Lake City. Fathead minnows are introduced to the effluent samples and the requirement is that no more than 50 percent of the fish may die in the water. Although the effluent is treated and considered safe to dump into the river by EPA standards, Fosse said he wouldnt drink the water, part of his reason being that the city is not required by the state or the EPA to kill all bacteria. 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