In the early 1990s, two different districts managed wastewater in Clifton, Colorado, between them operating more than 20 miles of old clay and concrete sewer pipe, several lift stations and three separate lagoon systems discharging to the Colorado River.
Today, the districts have been consolidated into one, the lift stations are gone and much of the sewer system has been modernized and now flows by gravity to a beautifully landscaped 2.5 mgd biological nutrient removal facility that meets tightening requirements for ammonia, nitrogen and phosphorus removal. Dewatered biosolids are applied to the land.The dramatic progress was the work of Brian Woods,
