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•Case Study: Flygt Jet Aerator Coming Up With Air At Kingsland WWTP

Unrelenting population growth created unusually challenging conditions recently for the wastewater treatment utility serving Kingsland, Georgia. The most recent problem involved deficient oxygenation in a critical phase of the treatment plant's process.

This community of 15,000, located just across the Florida State Line and approximately 20 miles from Jacksonville, has experienced a tenfold increase in population within less than a generation. The more than five percent annual growth rate for this area of Coastal Georgia can be attributed to the quality of life and the employment opportunities at a nearby nuclear submarine base and in Jacksonville. The flat topography--and the more than 50 lift stations needed to overcome the lack of gravity flow--compounded the plant's process problems by inducing frequent spikes in the influent flow. The surges eroded the efficiency in the first chamber of the Orbal basin, a three-ring biological oxidation ditch system that reached the market in the 1960s.

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•Case Study: Flygt Jet Aerator Coming Up With Air At Kingsland WWTP

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