Saving Taxpayer Dollars with Micro-Blaze

Case History: Saving Taxpayer Dollars at a Municipal Wastewater Treatment System

A one-million gallon per day municipal wastewater treatment system [WTS] in central Texas was experiencing excessive grease build-up in four of the city's lift stations. Verde representatives were contacted and asked to make recommendations on a solution to the problem.

Each of the four lift stations was equipped with simple metering pumps set to deliver one quart of Micro-Blaze^® Emergency Liquid Spill Control to the sumps every 24 hours for a total application rate of one gallon per day.

This Micro-Blaze application rate no only accomplished the original goal of the project by digesting the initial grease build-up within the lift stations, but the product kept the facilities clean and the WTS operators soon noticed numerous, additional benefits from the Micro-Blaze applications. Odors that had emanated from the lift stations, the downstream manholes and the plant itself were eliminated. The infamous "rotten egg" smell of hydrogen sulfide - a toxic gas that can be detected by most people in concentrations of parts per billion [ppb] - was also gone!

Subsequent water quality testing was done within the WTS facility discharge permit parameters. Noted was a reduction of total suspended solids [tss] in the plant's outfall. And, ammonia concentrations had been lowered to "non-detectable" levels. Both of those discharge parameters are tightly regulated throughout much of the world.

A dramatic 90% reduction in the frequency of the plant's sludge removal from the solids settling lagoons was also noted.

Using Micro-Blaze^® Emergency Liquid Spill Control created a less noxious work environment and also resulted in significant saving of taxpayers' dollars through sludge removal.

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