I just talked to our operator. We had a failure with the pump with takes any type of dirt or solids from the bottom of the clarifier and pumps them back to the digester. What you are seeing is some suspended solids like when you scrub your tub or wash your dishes. The solids are the type of things that cannot be broken down by the biological process (sand, dirt) and normally accumulate on the bottom of the basins and are pumped out by a truck every so often. They are still flowing through the chlorine contact basin and being treated / sterilized by the chlorine that’s injected into the contact basin. So while it’s not pleasing to the eye, it is being disinfectant by the chlorine. We have an emergency order in for an emergency temporary pump and it should be here tomorrow.
MUD 12 bard meeting 6:00 p.m. this evening.
Re: MUD 12 Discharge
Posted by Reid on 11/19/2024, 5:50 pm, in reply to "MUD 12 Discharge"
Chlorination of the wastewater will not sanitize that mess before it goes into the canal. Care to pull up a shovel full of canal mud? Pour a little bleach on it and then call it sanitized.
Re: MUD 12 Discharge
Posted by Harry on 11/19/2024, 8:28 am, in reply to "MUD 12 Discharge"
MUD's decision to not have a weekend contact number makes it necessary to use the TCEQ emergency complaint number (800-832-8224).
The weekend convenience of the board members and the operator is clearly more important to them than to the customers of MUD 12.
