Municipal Wastewater Treament Plant D

This is another set of data that lists the typical chemicals treated by a municipal wastewater facility. The inlet and outlet chemicals values are given as monthly averages except for the last column where it is given as yearly fiscal average. This plant is located in the New York City area.

													YEARLY AVERAGE
PARAMETERS	APR 94	MAY 94	JUNE 94	JULY 94	AUG 94	SEPT 94	OCT 94	NOV 94	DEC 94	JAN 95	FEB 95	MAR 95	YEARLY AVERAGE
FLOW (MGD)	70	69	68	76	76	78	76	70	80	74	74	72	73.58
SUSPENDED SOLIDS, RAW SEWAGE (mg/L)	83	94	99	91	88	90	90	90	80	79	n/a	n/a	88.4
SUSPENDED SOLIDS, PLANT EFFLUENT (mg/L)	24	22	11	7	8	9	8	22	13	12	n/a	n/a	13.6
BOD, TOTAL RAW SEWAGE (mg/L)	115	115	118	102	115	98	120	118	106	117	n/a	n/a	112.4
BOD, TOTAL PLANT EFFLUENT (mg/L)	14	17	9	8	10	9	11	18	16	15	n/a	n/a	12.7

HEAVY METALS, INFLUENT (mg/L)
Ag, silver	0.0028	0.0025	0.0042	0.00093	0.0033	0.001	0.0028	0.0015	0.0014	0.00093	0.0021	0.0015	0.00208
As, arsenic	0.00054	0.00026	0.00071	0.0012	0.0006	0.00054	0.0015	0.00038	0.00054	0.00052	0.00038	0.00026	0.00062
Be, beryllium	0.00008	0.00003	0.00003	0.00008	0.00008	0.00003	0.00009	0.00013	0.00003	0.00006	0.00003	0.00003	5.83E-05
Cd, cadmium	0.0027	0.00064	0.011	0.0054	0.00042	0.00009	0.0017	0.0012	0.00051	0.00035	0.00065	0.00086	0.0021
Cr, chromium	0.0051	0.003	0.0022	0.0046	0.0048	0.0039	0.027	0.0038	0.0036	0.0034	0.0028	0.024	0.0074
Cu, copper	0.054	0.059	0.053	0.066	0.21	0.05	0.11	0.067	0.042	0.032	0.052	0.029	0.069
Hg, mercury	0.00011	0.00006	0.00006	0.00007	0.00012	0.00026	0.0005	0.00009	0.00006	0.00008	0.00017	0.00006	0.00014
Ni, nickel	0.0033	0.0026	0.0046	0.0031	0.015	0.0076	0.0085	0.0032	0.0047	0.0027	0.012	0.0035	0.0059
Pb, lead	0.022	0.0078	0.013	0.013	0.02	0.019	0.11	0.0095	0.01	0.013	0.0082	0.01	0.0213
Zn, zinc	0.12	0.11	0.076	0.15	0.15	0.08	0.26	0.082	0.063	0.076	0.064	0.05	0.1068

HEAVY METALS, EFFLUENT (mg/L)
Ag, silver	0.0012	0.00096	0.00032	0.00022	0.0002	0.0002	0.00029	0.0015	0.00018	0.00033	0.00024	0.0002	0.00049
As, arsenic	0.00036	0.00028	0.00038	0.00068	0.00064	0.0005	0.00057	0.00037	0.0005	0.00033	0.00029	0.00026	0.00043
Be, beryllium	0.00008	0.00003	0.00003	0.00008	0.00008	0.00003	0.00005	0.00003	0.00003	0.00003	0.00003	0.00003	4.42E-05
Cd, cadmium	0.00019	0.00013	0.00003	0.0004	0.00003	0.00003	0.00032	0.00018	0.00018	0.00004	0.00016	0.00003	0.00014
Cr, chromium	0.0021	0.0054	0.0005	0.0046	0.0011	0.0014	0.002	0.0034	0.0009	0.0036	0.0022	0.0063	0.0028
Cu, copper	0.0078	0.019	0.0056	0.018	0.0075	0.0048	0.0053	0.045	0.0078	0.0057	0.0086	0.0072	0.0119
Hg, mercury	0.00008	0.00006	0.00006	0.00006	0.00008	0.00021	0.00006	0.00006	0.00006	0.00006	0.00006	0.00006	7.58E-05
Ni, nickel	0.0026	0.0036	0.0039	0.002	0.0007	0.0042	0.0031	0.0016	0.0032	0.0018	0.0031	0.0029	0.0027
Pb, lead	0.0024	0.0054	0.0018	0.011	0.0034	0.002	0.0035	0.0099	0.0018	0.0022	0.0032	0.0024	0.0041
Zn, zinc	0.03	0.032	0.02	0.11	0.014	0.016	0.016	0.067	0.019	0.021	0.025	0.029	0.033

NUTRIENTS, INFLUENT (mg/L)
NH3, ammonia	8.1	8.18	7.63	6.07	6.4	6.64	7.95	6.4	8.4	7.3	6.5	7	7.21
organics	11.43	12.08	17.4	8.95	13.13	11.13	6.55	17.15	14.1	13.2	20.5	14.5	13.34
TKN (total kjeldahl nitrogen)	19.5	20.3	25	15	19.5	17.8	14.5	23.5	22.5	20.5	27	21.5	20.55
NO3	0.35	0.3375	0.1675	0.185	0.205	0.31	0.05	0.175	0.51	0.25	0.61	0.265	0.2846
NO2	0.07	0.037	0.071	0.043	0.059	0.089	0.078	0.074	0.101	0.123	0.138	0.06	0.0786
phosphates-total	2.618	2.415	2.513	2.13	2.033	2.068	2.77	2.515	2.33	2.425	3.17	1.925	2.4093
phosphates-ortho	0.935	1.078	1.043	1.203	1.14	1.043	1.39	1.587	1.42	1.15	0.985	1.02	1.1662
cyanide	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02

NUTRIENTS, EFFLUENT (mg/L)
NH3, ammonia	13.48	16.93	15.1	8.96	8.8	10.05	11.54	8.16	10.57	13.58	13.24	12.35	11.90
NO2	0.267	0.048	0.495	0.939	0.99	1.227	0.819	0.817	0.698	0.735	0.527	0.409	0.664
NO3	0.2025	0.1575	0.2625	1	1.325	0.925	1.3032	2.7367	1.4967	0.7474	0.7643	0.5171	0.9532
TKN (total kjeldahl nitrogen)	22	27.5	25	16.5	17.3	20	23.7	15.6	19.4	23.8	24.7	23	21.54
cyanide	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
organics	8.53	10.58	9.9	7.55	8.48	9.95	12.17	7.49	8.86	10.19	11.53	10.68	9.66
phosphates-ortho	1.503	0.943	0.975	1.225	1.413	1.088	1.21	1.655	0.98	0.555	0.99	0.88	1.118
phosphates-total	1.825	1.603	1.298	1.428	1.66	1.283	2.637	2.255	1.535	1.185	2.61	1.105	1.702

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Last Updated: 8/14/96
Analyst/Contact: Tristan Baccay

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