​How WWTP Tours Can Help Operators Get Acquainted With New Processes

The Macon Water Authority (MWA) in Georgia recently completed about $51 million worth of long overdue rehab work on its two wastewater treatment plants. A key change in the rehab was how MWA handles dewatering, moving away from belt presses to a rotary press product. Ray Shell, MWA’s assistant executive director, was interested in a rotary press product from Fournier he heard about, but he says MWA operators were hesitant at first about a change from what they were used to. That’s where the approach MWA took to pre-project planning helped a great deal. A list was created with all the