re: Drowning at the sewage plant

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These posters don't know jack about water treatment facilities

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Truth. There arent any rakes or skimmer arms in the tank. Only aerators and pumps. Raw sewage is piped into the plant by pumps located all around the city. The sewage enters the plant and goes through a rake/screen/skimmer (basically a bunch of vertical metal rods. Thats to remove the tampons, condoms, big items people flush away. But its not in the tank. Its water flowing so it passes though the rake and falls in the tank. From there its aerated for at least 12 hours a day in the first tank to let the sludge fall to the bottom.

That sewage is pumped into the next tank where it will further break down, and then that is pumped into the 3rd tank where its basically just water. In the 3rd tank that water is chlorinated to kill most of the germs. Once thats done its pumped into a ditch or canal and the whole process is repeated.