Jerseyville's Waste Water Treatment Plant Department

	The Jerseyville Waste Water Treatment Plant is located in the Southwest corner of Jerseyville. The Plant that is now in operation is a 1984 upgrade of a plant that was originally built in the early 1960’s. Prior to the “84” upgrade there were two facilities in Jerseyville used to treat waste water. The 1984 upgrade constructed a pump station where the north plant operated and is today designated as the North Plant. The existing wastewater facility is a modified trickling filtration system that is called a RBC or Rotating Biological Collection System Plant. The RBC Plant uses a series of rotating collectors that promote the growth of bacteria that feed on pathogens that are present in raw sewage. The following photos follows the progression of waste water through the plant up to final discharge into the receiving stream. Wastewater Operators are Certified by the State of Illinois through The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Wastewater Operators are not required to verify Continuing Education Credits at this time to retain certification. Jim Meszaros Class I Operator Martin Short Class III Operator Greg Beauchamp Class II Operator
	Jerseyville Waste Water Treatment Plant – Located on Maple Summit Road just south of County Road. This Building contains the plant office, laboratory, and break room for plant operators and maintenance employees.
	The sewage leaving the grit chamber enters one of two Primary Clarifiers. In this basin solids are removed by allowing the heavy solids to the bottom and removing the lighter solids by skimming the top of the water and depositing these solids in a collector. The solids are drawn off twice daily to a sludge thickener.
	Water leaving the Primary Clarifiers enters the RBC building to a flow splitter that directs the sewer to one of three rows of Collector units.
	The water leaving the RBC units flows into secondary clarifiers that are designed like the primary clarifiers. Solids generated in the RBCs are removed with the heavier solids settling to the bottom and the lighter solids being skimmed from the surface.
	Flow entering the RBC’s is split equally between the three rows of collectors and each row has five rotating collector units. The collectors promote growth of organism that further breakdown the sewage. As the organism die their remains become suspended in the sewer to be removed by the secondary clarifiers.
	Each of the five collector units have cup shaped fin attachments that are used to drive the collector. Air is forced into a header to bubbler piping located on the up-stream side of the collector. As the air is forced into the water the cupped shaped fins trap the air creating the force needed to move the collector. Each collector makes one full rotation per minute.
	In 2000 and again in 2003 the Jerseyville Wastewater Treatment Plant was nominated for the Group III – Best Operated Treatment Plant of the Year. In 2003 the Plant received the Award for the Best Operated Class III Wastewater Treatment Facility in the State of Illinois.