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Study villa

Study villa The City of Villa Rica, Georgia, located in Carroll County, has two wastewater treatment plants. The West WWTP is a new 2.15 MGD facility designed for future expansions. Key features of the plant design include a new influent raw sewerage pump station; an oxidation ditch with a multi-stage selector ahead of the ditch for biological phosphorus and total nitrogen removal; clarification.  Tertiary treatment, including tertiary clarification and a deep bed sand filter; an auto-thermal thermophilic aerobic digestion system (SNDR secondary by Thermal Process Systems, Inc.). And a plant drain pump station. This facility operated well until the early morning of June 1, 2016, when potential disaster struck. A pipe broke in the basement of the SNDR System and drained 235,000 gallons of highly concentrated sludge onto the floor, which was then pumped back to the headworks via the drain pumps. The exact concentration of this sludge was not known; however, it had been treated for