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The Metropolitan
Sewer District will celebrate the Grand Opening of the Floyds
Fork Wastewater Treatment Plant on Friday, April 20. Opening
ceremonies will begin at 9:30 A.M. at the plant site, 1100 Blue Herron
(view map), and will conclude with plant tours until noon.
The new plant,
which can treat up to 3.25 million gallons of wastewater per day, will
eventually eliminate eleven smaller package treatment plants that
currently discharge into Floyds Fork Creek. Water quality on the creek
should improve as these smaller plants are taken off line.
The plant will
also be the permanent site of MSD's Student Environmental Education
Center. The center will provide a field day each year for every fifth
grade student in Jefferson County to learn more about water quality
issues.
The Floyds Fork
plant is MSD's sixth regional treatment facility in Louisville and
Jefferson County, all of which are currently under expansion or
facility upgrades. Floyds
Fork Wastewater Treatment Plant Facts
- The Floyds
Fork Wastewater Treatment Plant (FFWTP) went to construction in
1998. Start up (first flow) began in March 2001.
- The cost of
plant construction totaled $15 million and is the first
municipally owned design/build wastewater treatment plant in
Kentucky.
- The plant is
designed to fully treat up to 3.25 million gallons of wastewater
per day with a peak flow rating of 10.4 million gallons per day.
- Treatment at
the plant includes:
- Screening
and grit removal
- Oxidation
ditch/biological treatment
- Biological/chemical
nutrient removal
- Tertiary
filtration
- Ultra-violet
disinfection (instead of chlorine)
- Aerated
biosolids holding
- The plant
facility also features an environmental education center developed
in conjunction with the Jefferson County Public Schools. The
center will provide a day of water quality education for every
fifth grade student from all public, parochial and private schools
in the area.
- Construction
of the plant was accomplished while meeting an 80 percent
reduction in sedimentation that would normally leave the site and
enter Floyds Fork, the highest quality stream in Jefferson County.
- The plant
will eventually eliminate 11 existing small package wastewater
treatment plants that currently discharge directly to Floyds Fork.
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