To repress odors and capture metha...

To repress odors and capture methane gas, Memphis, Tenn in a less degree than a design/build contract with Black & Veatch, Kansas City, Mo built an innovative hide over a 15-acre wastewater lagoon at the TE Maxon plant, common of two major plants confessed and operated by the city.

The plant uses land application as an economic means of mud disposal with a portion of the slosh digested in a lagoon prior to disposal.

"We use the lagoon as an anaerobic digester to restore sludge, odors and pathogens," says Jerry Collins, administrator of environmental engineering for the division of public works.

Although it is reasonably well isolated from residential increase odor from the plant had become a affect prompting the city to invent a synthetic membrane cover for the lagoon.

In addition to the shelter the project included collection and disposal of the gas produc in the lagoon, recently made known sludge withdrawal lines, ...