In the latest installment of City Jobs, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell works at the Wasterwater Treatment Plant located in Fort Taber in the city's South End.
i have 26 years in the business as an operator never seen such clean sites an we have to do all the processes from beginning to end sampling ras was Bod and look after the Pumping stations as well but i live in the uk.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions
i have 26 years in the business as an operator never seen such clean sites an we have to do all the processes from beginning to end sampling ras was Bod and look after the Pumping stations as well but i live in the uk.
How do you find working as a Wastewater treatment work operator Mario? Interested myself..
"Work I'm not qualified to do."
Well at least he's honest.
Buenísimo el programa! Saludos desde Argentina
8 years later and still Mayor? Must have been doing a good job.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.
Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions
Smells like money 💰...
That’s a wastewater lingo
What if install multi media filter on last process, no need for SOdium bisulphite, only backwash for MMF..just my thought.
Further filtration will not neutralize the cl2 in the water.
Sir tanong lang ako kung ano ano ang mga nagiging problema sa loob ng waste water treatment plants pagdting sa electricals...
Hi sir,
my name is Gokul Govinda Raj
From India 6 years experience for waste water treatment plant incharge laboratory analysis plant management
Can you please explain me about the ETP?
I hope a lot has changed since May 9 2014
Why?
Why's that
That's malodorous stultifying and fetid, reeking, foul smelling, and dubious at best
You are right, but should add this: an extremely necessary work that must be done, otherwise we would drown in our own shit
for sure
cool