Los Alamos WWTP Gains Turndown Capability And Saves Energy With Hybrid Blowers

Los Alamos, NM, the former site of topsecret laboratories where government scientists developed the atomic bomb during World War II, is once again a town at the forefront of new technology.

Nestled in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico in a canyon 6,530 feet above sea level, the Los Alamos Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) serves a community of about 12,000 residents. The plant has a design capacity of 1.4 million gallons per day (MGD) with a peak of 2.8 MGD, but actual demand falls well below those limits. Faced with aging, chronically overheating equipment and inefficient blower operation, the plant superintendent was in search of a better alternative