Wastewater Case Studies

Super Shredder^® Disintegrators Eliminate Downtime - The Trenton Sewer Utility handles wastewater and sewage generated for the city of Trenton, New Jersey. The utility typically processes 12 mgd which can quickly rise to 27 mgd during storm events. For the past ten years, the facility has relied upon the powerful grinding capabilities of several strategically placed Super Shredder Disintegrators to ensure that operations run smoothly. Read More about this Super Shredder application here.

Spiralift^® SR: Solves Major Septage Disposal Problem - Septage haulers in a rural Florida County used to offload their truck's gooey contents into a large open field. That all changed when the local residents' complaints about noxious odors led to television and newspaper coverage. That's when county officials directed the local wastewater treatment facility to come up with a better method of septage disposal. Read More about the Spiralift SR installation here.

Sewage Plant Transformed - The Valley forge Pump Station receives daily on average 500000 gallon influent. It has been in operation for about 20 years. While visiting Valley Forge Sewage Plant the plant operator, Jim Brennan, informed us that they have a Taskmaster Shredder installed in front of the pumps, to eliminate the clogging problem. This hydraulically driven Taskmaster Shredder has been installed for about 4- 1/2 years. Read More about this installation here.

Grinder Saves The Day At Shickshinny Sewer Treatment Plant - The Borough of Shickshinny Sewer Plant faced a major operational problem. The plant, which has been in operation since 1979, services mostly residential areas, parts of two boroughs and a neighboring prison. It uses an activated sludge, secondary treatment process to process 500 MGD. Even though Shickshinny's plant had a grinder located in front of the pumps, their pumps were still jamming frequently. Read More about this application here.

Taskmaster^® Grinder Saves Over $36,000 For Kirksville, Mo. - The City of Kirksville, Mo. had a problem. Their 25 year old Smith and Loveless comminutor suddenly stopped working and could not be repaired. Their main barscreen could not handle the complete flow of the plant headworks at daily peak periods which meant that unreduced solids could get into the plant's downstream equipment and cause severe operational difficulties. Read More about this money-saving Taskmaster Grinder here.

Greasy "Air-Craft Carriers" Destroyed By Taskmaster^®! - The Lower Bucks County Joint Municipal Water Works Authority in Levittown, Pennsylvania is an activated sludge primary treatment plant. The facility is responsible for thirteen lift stations in the district and processes 10 million gallons of wastewater per day. Read More about this Taskmaster application.

Taskmaster^® Alleviates Screenings Conveying Problem - The Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a thoroughly modern 65 MGD wastewater treatment plant which uses the Trickling Filter/Solids Contact Process. Like many other facilities across the country, Central Valley is continuously challenged to meet the expanding water treatment demands of a growing residential and industrial community. Read More about the Taskmaster solution here.

Taskmaster^® Solves Sludge Problem - A paper company located in the northeast experienced frequent problems at its wastewater treatment plant. Under normal conditions, sludge from the milling process is directed to this facility and is ground up and placed in a primary clarifier. The sludge is then put through a press where it is dewatered, extracted and sent to a landfill. Read More about this Taskmaster application.

An army of Super Shredders^® Installed at 26th Ward Correctional Institute in New York State - The units shred tough, problem materials in sludge or raw sewage lines. In this installation the shredders perform a preparatory function for the sludge stream prior to the dewatering process before the centrifuges. Read More about this Super Shredder installation.

Super Shredder^® - Just What The Warden Ordered - Inmates in correctional institutions have found a new pastime. By flushing oversized items down their toilets they either accidentally or deliberately cause the facility's wastewater to back up. Often the goal is to gain extra time out of the cell. By flooding their cell or cell block, they force the facility to move them during the cleanup period. These misdeeds have often been rewarding ....that is up until now! Read More about the Super Shredder application.

Spiralift^® SC Solves Screenings Disposal Problem - The City of Collinsville had a problem. The screenings coming off of their bar screen were odorous, wet and costly to dispose of. Three container loads a week of screenings were very costly to dispose of. Initial tests of a screenings washer were discouraging. Although the unit worked well initially, it quickly broke a shaft on the shredder. Read More about the Spiralift SC Solution.

Birmingham Wastewater Treatment: Taskmaster^® Inline Grinders Helps Make Sludge into Forest Feed - Sludge is environmentally recycled - Innovative Recycling Project Franklin Miller installed six Taskmaster TM8500 series inline grinders in front of each primary and transfer sludge pump to create an environmentally sound, cost effective solution to sludge disposal for the Birmingham Wastewater Treatmen plant. Read more about the Taskmaster case study.

Spiralift^® SLX: Prison Effluent First Line of Defense - Plant's wastewater discharge and equipment problems solved Franklin Miller engineers evaluated the Graterford Prison facility in Pennsylvania and,problems associated with the plant's wastewater discharge and equipment problems. They suggested one of their SPIRALIFT auger screening and grinding systems. Read More about the Spiralift^® SLX application.

Spiralift^® SL Solves Headworks Problem: Wastewater Treatment Plant, Napa Valley, California. - The Spiralift is a versatile screening system that is easy to employ for a variety of channel sizes and capacity requirements. Read More about the Spiralift SL Solution.

Taskmaster^® Grinder Ends Septage Headache - Grinder solves problems for wastewater treatment plant facility - Proper treatment of this septage was a problem for the Broward County Wastewater Treatment Plant facility. Read More about the Taskmaster case study.