With aging infrastructure and frequent storm events, Gills Creek WWTP faced significant grit loading challenges. The grit ...

Now, scientists report a brand-new way to repair roads that's also eco-friendly -- by using a remnant of wastewater treatment called grit that's usually disposed of in landfills. Potholes are ...

Installing a new headworks at an existing wastewater treatment plant is much like ... side-by-side 5-mgd pilot to test different grit separation and grit washing technologies.

This conventional activated sludge wastewater treatment plant ... included installation of a new stacked tray grit system, a vortex-type grit separator and conveyor, two new influent bar screens ...

a swirl separator and grit washer, Christopher Englert, a city wastewater treatment engineer, explained in a memo. The bar screens were installed in 1989 and in 2000 and require frequent repair ...

The leftover grit that's used in wastewater treatment is also problematic. Not only is it non-biodegradable, but because it contains pathogens, it can't be recycled as is.

The headworks, with its bar screen and grit removal, are physical ways to remove debris before the wastewater itself goes through a biological treatment system, Strong said. The plant has millions ...

(WCAX) - Montpelier’s wastewater ... had so much grit it actually filled our aerated grit chamber up, broke the mechanism. It was able to flow into further pieces of the treatment process ...