March 2014 Columbia Section Meeting – Pasco Processing Center Wastewater Reuse System Optimization

This month we welcome Tim McGuire, Senior Engineer with Cascade Earth Sciences to O’Callahan’s in the Shilo Inn in Richland.

How do you fix a multi-user process wastewater land treatment system near capacity to enable more food processing and more processors? The City of Pasco is solving system capacity limitations by applying practical engineering, agronomy, and irrigation design to improve pre-treatment, operations, and farm management. The City of Pasco (City) treats and reuses the process wastewater produced by four food processors by applying it to agricultural crops grown on the City’s land treatment fields. This presentation will showcase a 20 year old centralized land treatment operation including financial aspects for the processors and the City, and show the pretreatment construction and planning solutions to improve and expand wastewater reuse.

Register at the following link:  http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=tpugxclab&oeidk=a07e93j7tp1eb4999e8