New York City is seeking an enterprising company to beef up aging infrastructure at a wastewater treatment plant on Staten Island. One requirement? Improvements to the plant's system that turns solid waste into a thick sludge.
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Sludge thickening is just one step in a massive municipal wastewater management enterprise. The city’s 14 wastewater treatment plants process more than 1 billion gallons of runoff each day from our sinks, showers and toilets. That’s enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools and have a little bit left over.Department of Environmental Protection
, a professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University. “Wastewater treatment is really the only way that we can close the loop.”For this project, DEP is hoping to improve sludge thickening at its Oakwood Beach Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility, which sits on Staten Island’s eastern shore and opens into the Lower New York Bay. It’s been in operation since the 1950s and serves more than 240 million people, according to the agency’s website.
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