Friday, April 8, 2016

"Waste Water Treatment Plant" Reflection

    Deer Island is a waste water treatment plant that is connected to Winthrop. All of the town's  wastewater goes to the Deer Island, and pass through stages before it is dumped into Boston Harbor. First the waste water goes to the pump station that pumps the waste water up. It travels to the 60 grit chambers which spins out inorganic materials. Those materials are put into a truck that will be sent to  landfills in New Hampshire. The rest of the waste water enters the 4 primary tanks, then to the oxygen reactors. After that the waste water goes through a secondary treatment. Finally it goes into chlorination and declaration. After all these steps the waste water is dumped six half miles in the Boston Harbor. The sludge, that the treatments extracted, is recycled and turned into fertilizer called the Bay Set Fertilizer. They have teams that make sure the waste water dumped out into the harbor is not infecting it. 
    It was interesting to know that the Boston Harbor is flourishing, and is in a better condition after they stopped dumping waste water directly into it. This is when they started to do treatments, keeping the Harbor clean and healthy. It is amazing to see the process waste water goes through to be clean enough to be dumped out. The waste water treatment plant is important to the environment because it keeps clean water from being contaminated by the waste water that is dumped out. It keeps marine life flourishing, and helps us to have safe water. 

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