The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Salesville, Arkansas, (“Salesville”) entered into an April 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations involving the Underground Injection Control (“UIC”) Code and Sanitary Sewer Overflow (“SSO”). See LIS No. 21-033.
The CAO provides that Salesville operates a decentralized wastewater treatment system with drip irrigation dispersal (“Facility”) in Baxter County, Arkansas.
DEQ is stated to have issued a state No-Discharge Permit (“Permit”) to Salesville in 2015. The Permit is stated to have become effective on September 1, 2015, and expired on August 31, 2020.
Salesville is stated to have been provided a request for a Corrective Action Plan (“CAP”) by DEQ to address permitted effluent discharge limitations and SSOs reported by the City in accordance with the Permit. The CAP is stated to have been required to cont
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Stalwart Submersible Mixers Help Montana WWTP Make Big Energy Savings
When the small team at Daffy Hills Lane selected their new mixers as part of plant upgrade in 2004, they chose very wisely indeed – and not just because those same mixers are still dutifully working away today.
Purchased initially so that a 50-HP surface rotor aerator could be switched off during night-time hours of low BOD loading, the two 5-HP (3.7kW) submersible mixers (manufactured by Landia), have created energy-savings of $18,000 per year, meaning that the payback for the whole mixer installation was just less than four and a half years.
“The savings speak for themselves”, said Eric Miller, Superintendent at Chinook’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in the far north of Montana, “but the benefits have been manyfold”.