Wastewater Treatment Facility

Wastewater Treatment Plant

CONSTRUCTION HISTORY TABLE

Construction of City of Massillon’s original sewer system began over 100 years ago. Since that time, the system has been periodically expanded to accommodate additional residential, commercial and industrial users. In 1892 the City’s first wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) consisted of settling tanks, and a dosing tank. In 1937 (5.2 mg/d Primary Treatment Process), major improvements to the treatment facilities were added, which included a Primary clarifier, and Anaerobic Digesters. With the start of 1962 (9.0 mg/d Primary Treatment Process), major improvements to the treatment facilities added were pre-aeration tanks, two additional primary clarifiers, another primary sludge building, and two additional anaerobic digesters.

1937 – 5.2 MGD Primary Treatment Process

  • Flocculation Tank
  • Rectangular Primary Clarifiers
  • Sludge Drawoff Building
  • Anaerobic Digesters
  • Sludge Drying Beds

1962 – 9.0 MGD Primary Treatment Process

  • Added comminutor and screen chamber
  • Abandoned flocculation tank
  • Added preaeration tanks
  • Added two additional primary clarifiers
  • Added another primary sludge building
  • Added two additional anaerobic digesters
  • Added digested sludge holding tank
  • Added sludge filter building

By the mid 1970’s, the facility could no longer properly handle the City’s growing sewage flows. Over loading of the WWTP various components caused unsatisfactory wastewater treatment. Consequently, in 1976 (12.5 mg/d Secondary Treatment and Thermal Sludge Conditioning Facilities), the City of Massillon evaluated its existing treatment control facilities and developed a long range, comprehensive control program. The results were increasing the capacity and efficiency of this facility, specifically by constructing two mechanical bar screens, and grit removal tanks, one additional pre-aeration tank, adding two primary effluent screw pumps, 6 octagonal shaped roughing filters, 3 aeration tanks, two raw wastewater screw pumps, 3 circular secondary clarifiers, 2 chlorine contact tanks, a phosphate removal system, and converting the 1937 digesters to sludge thickeners. The year 1978 brought the abandonment of Thermal sludge conditioning facilities and the beginning of anaerobic sludge digestion process, along with land application of liquid digested sludge.

1976 – 12.5 MGD Secondary Treatment and Thermal Sludge Conditioning Facilities

  • Added two mechanical bar screens
  • Added two grit removal tanks
  • Added one additional preaeration tank
  • Added two primary effluent screw pumps
  • Added 6 octagonal shaped roughing filters
  • Added 3 aeration tanks
  • Added two raw wastewater screw pumps
  • Added 3 circular secondary clarifiers
  • Added 2 chlorine contacts tanks
  • Added phosphate removal system
  • Converted 1937 digesters to sludge thickeners
  • Added sludge heat conditioning equipment

1978 – Thermal sludge conditioning facilities we abandoned and the anaerobic sludge digestion process began along with land application of liquid digested sludge.

In 1985 the construction upgrade of the existing Anaerobic Digesters began. Lime stabilization process was used during this upgrade. A Belt filter press was installed as a backup to the liquid land application process. By 1987 the Sludge lime stabilization process was discontinued upon completion of modifications to the digesters. In 1990 an 800,000 gallon digested liquid sludge storage tank was added. In 1996 the existing rectangular primary clarifiers 1-6 and the Primary Sludge Building No. 1 were upgraded. In 1998 upgrades to the existing square primary clarifiers (Nos. 7 and 8) and Primary Sludge Building No. 2 were performed.

1985 – Construction upgrade of the existing anaerobic digesters. Lime stabilization process was used during this upgrade. Belt filter press was installed as a back up to liquid land application process.

1987 – Sludge lime stabilization process was discontinued upon completion of modifications to digesters.

1990 – Added an 800,000 gallon digested liquid sludge storage tank.

1996 – Upgraded existing rectangular primary clarifiers (Nos. 1-6) and Primary Sludge Building No. 1.

1998 – Upgraded existing square primary clarifiers (Nos. 7 & 8) and Primary Sludge Building NO. 2.

Construction upgrades of City of Massillon’s sewer treatment plant became the focal point of the new millennium. With the increased usage of industrial and residential sewage waste collection from an expanding Western Stark County, the facility could no longer properly handle the growing sewage flows. For that reason the Massillon Regional Waste Water Treatment Plant Upgrade 2000 project came to fruition. The $32 million dollar expansion improvements were (2002 15.8 MGD Advanced Secondary Treatment Process) increasing the size of influent screw pumps, rehabbing existing grit tanks and modifying the grit removal conveyors to screw type including covering the influent screw pumps, grit tanks and open channels, adding a 2.6 million gallon diurnal flow retention basin, a 3 million gallon storm flow retention basin, replacing first and second stage screw pumps, replacing horizontal rotors in aeration tanks with fine bubble aeration and slow speed vertical mixers, upgrading the roughing filters, adding a blower building which houses centrifugal blowers for the diurnal flow retention basin and the aeration tanks, modifying the 3 existing suction lift type clarifiers to spiral scraper type, adding 2 additional spiral scraper type clarifiers, a new building to house new rapid sand tertiary filters and ultraviolet disinfection, changing the gravity thickeners to sludge blending tanks, adding gravity belt thickeners and belt filter presses, and a polymer system for GBTs and BFPs including an addition to solids handling building, adding odor control for the influent screening building, grit tanks, and grit building, solids handling building, thickened sludge holding tanks and sludge blending tanks, adding a sludge storage pad and a vactor dump pad, a filtrate pump station, adding a maintenance building, refurbishing the laboratory and adding a whole plant monitoring system.

2002 – 15.8 MGD Advanced Secondary Treatment Process

  • Added influent flow monitor to 66” diameter trunk sewer
  • Increased size of influent screw pumps from 90” diam to 96” diam
  • Modified automatic barscreens from 1” opening to ½ “opening
  • Rehabbed existing grit tanks
  • Modified grit removal conveyors to screw type
  • Added covers to the influent screw pumps, grit tanks and open channels
  • Added odor control equipment to influent screenings building, grit tanks, and grit building
  • Added emergency overflowing chamber after grit removal process
  • Added 2.6 MG diurnal flow retention basin
  • Added 3 MG storm flow retention basin
  • Added controlled pumps for flow retention basin effluent
  • Added retention basin effluent flow monitoring
  • Added odor control to primary sludge building number 1
  • Added odor control to primary sludge building number 2
  • Replaced first and second stage screw pumps
  • Replaced roughing filter distributors
  • Replaced roughing filter media and siding
  • Replaced horizontal rotors in aeration tanks with fine bubble aeration and slow speed vertical mixers
  • Added blower building which uses houses centrifugal blowers for the diurnal flow retention basin and the aeration tanks
  • Added dissolved oxygen controls for aeration tanks
  • Modified aeration basin effluent flow splitting
  • Modified the 3 existing suction lift type clarifiers to spiral scraper type
  • Added 2 spiral scraper type clarifiers
  • Added RAS metering chamber
  • Modified existing RAS pumps and wet well
  • Modified existing RAS piping flow splitting control
  • Added building to house new rapid sand tertiary filters and ultraviolet disinfection
  • Added plant effluent parshall flume
  • Changed chlorine contact tank to nonpotable water wet well and high river pump station
  • Modified nonpotable water pumps and systems
  • Changed gravity thickeners to sludge blending tanks
  • Replaced thickened sludge pumps with gravity belt thickener feed pumps
  • Added gravity belt thickeners
  • Modified sludge holding tank into a thickened sludge holding tank
  • Modified existing anaerobic digester covers, mixing system and heating system
  • Added belt filter press feed pumps
  • Added belt filter presses
  • Added polymer system for GBTs and BFPs
  • Added addition to solids handling building
  • Added odor control for solids handling building, thickened sludge holding tanks and sludge blending tanks
  • Added sludge storage pad
  • Added filtrate pump station
  • Changed sludge storage tank into sidestream storage tank
  • Added vactor dump pad
  • Added maintenance building
  • Refurbished laboratory cabinets
  • Added plant monitoring system

The 2013 project includes improvements to ancillary WWTP systems, either to support the IFAS system, upgrade existing processes, or replace equipment approaching its service life. Numerous improvements were made to the WWTP headworks.

2013 – 17.0 MGD & Implement a Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR)

  • Replaced the “Chapman Valve” slide gate at the collection system influent structure
  • Replaced both influent screw pumps downstream of the influent structure
  • Raised the high-water elevation of both sides of the existing flow retention basin to elevation 85.0 (plant vertical datum) to increase total storage by a half-million gallons to a total of 6.1 million gallons
  • Added a meter vault and 42-inch magnetic flow meter to the flow retention basin influent piping
  • Replaced the existing influent 24-inch magnetic flow meter with a new 24-inch magnetic flow meter
  • Added a slide gate and modified the influent structure of Primary Clarifiers 7-8 to allow these clarifiers to be bypassed
  • Added a 3-way valve to the discharge line of Sludge Pumps No. 1&2 with 4-inch piping to allow sludge to be recirculated to Primary Clarifiers 1&2 for primary sludge activation
  • Demolished the preaeration tanks and constructed fine screen building
  • Added two fine screens and a washing compactor units
  • Added a headworks odor control system with gas collection piping, exhaust fans, and biotrickling filter tower
  • Demolished the first and second stage screw pumps
  • Added the primary effluent pump station (PEPS) to convey effluent from the primary clarifiers to the IFAS bioreactors
  • Demolished the roughing filters
  • Demolished the aeration blowers feeding the aeration tanks
  • Converted the aeration tanks to the IFAS bioreactor tanks
  • Demolished the tertiary sand filter
  • Added tertiary disc cloth filters
  • Converted the sludge pre-thickeners with new clarifier mechanisms, launders, and launder covers
  • Added a replacement waste gas burner for the anaerobic digesters
  • Replaced digester gas piping and related safety equipment
  • Constructed a new digester gas boiler room in the Solids Handling Building with replacement boilers
  • Performed heating, ventilation, and air conditioning upgrades in the Administration Building and Secondary Clarifier Gallery

INDUSTRY

As required by a federal mandate, in the early 1980's, the City began to study the effects of local industrial wastes. This study determined the character of these wastes, assessed their relative compatibility with the sewerage system, and established industrial pretreatment regulations for all incompatible wastes. As a result of this study the Industrial Pretreatment Division was created. Today, this function is overseen by an Industrial Pretreatment Coordinator who regulates the industrial and commercial waste in the City.