His shift has ended, but his knowledge and legacy live on - with each of us here - forever. A true master of our craft. God only knows the countless number of Operators this video will inspire and educate in the decades to come. RIP, brother.
Rip Ryan from a fellow operator out of NYS 🤝🏽 great video.. I was saddened to come across the rip comments, really set me back a bit.. was gonna congratulate you on how well you explained the process of your plant and went over the basics. Been in the field 8 years and love to watch videos of other plants and their processes from time to time.
Thank you everyone for the kind words! I would like to dedicate this video to Ryan Giefer and his family. Ryan passed away in November of 2021. We are deeply saddened by this and we believe this video is a great way to honor his legacy.
i have an interview for engineer post in my state sewage department. i studied your video and i would like to say thank you very much Wisconsin Rapids Wastewater Treatment Plant. i learn a lot just by your video alone. what a hard work you guys are put into this. and your SCADA system is way more advances that what i have ever worked with. love it and love your content. From Malaysia.
The public needs a tour like this one for recycling plants. Although, those plants only sort pack and ship to Asia without actually recycling. But still.
I love how Ryan spoke about the challenges of wastewater treatment and how the plant seeks to continue improving its sustainability and the treatment process. Awesome tour!
Great video, I'm starting to enter the industry and you are very knowledgeable and explain things very well. Running these plants is an awesome responsibility. I'm excited to join the industry
This is the best, most comprehensive, and most detailed tour of a wastewater treatment plant that I have ever seen anywhere. These are the men that make your civilization function. They are the reason you've never heard of anyone getting cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever. Day in, day out, ceaselessly, tirelessly, usually thanklessly. Ryan Giefer, the intelligent, handsome man giving this tour, died in a hunting accident after falling out of a tree stand a few days ago. Keep him and his family in your thoughts for a moment, and consider the countless more like him across this country whose jobs and lives you never hear about, but whose hard work keeps you constantly comfortable and safe in your own daily life. RIP, Ryan.
@@juliemotiff4454 I'm so very sorry for your loss. His very thorough and erudite pedagogical contributions here to an interesting and crucial field of work will live on and be seen by countless thousands more all around the world, who will doubtless find them helpful in building and running their own similar systems.
I have watched a lot of video clips on wastewater treatment and this one is definitely the best-it is comprehensive (inside-the fence and outside-the fence operations), clear, and touches on all major components (including the role of lift stations) and processes. Many thanks for producing this!
I'd passed my licensure examination for Sanitary Engineer about one month ago and decided to take the path of Wastewater Engineering Field and this presentation inspired me and created a passion in me to enhance my skill and to explore wastewater engineering to become effective in this field. You guys showed me that I chose the right path for my career thank you for doing an excellent job in your work
Pre-1940 almost every city dumped the sewage right into the rivers. My home town, I worked for the town, and we still had half the city dumping straight into the river till 2002. Today, there is still about 20% of the cities houses dump into the river
Great video. Nice intro to the science of wastewater treatment. I was very struck by the conscientiousness of the people who run this facility. Civil servants indeed.
Am I the only one that noticed?? At 27:00 - top of the screen, on the tan horizontal pipe labeled “SUCTION DIG 1”… the N in SUCTION is backward. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This man has an astonishing grasp of the technology he oversees! What a confident and detailed explanation of a hugely varying process. Bravo, and thanks!
I love how they synced with the presenter saying"4 Digesters" at 11:51 (granted it showed 5 ducks but it still gave me a chuckle) (Edit added a timecode)
Thank you for sharing this with us. Wow, this was very informative and interesting. Again, thank you so much and for all of your hard work that you do. We NEED you
Thanks for Excellent presentation with easily understandable English. I have indegenised Clarifier Central Drive System with Spiral Bevel Gears and lesser HP motors, 35 years before compared to Dorr Oliver or Eimco in India.
Awesome video very informative. I only have one question. What do you do about the biters? I use tanks and artillery but I didn't see any of that. (Factorio, 🤣)
Great presentation on all of the components of wastewater collection and treatment systems, including the resource recovery systems used to generate methane from the waste sludge. Good job! You are making a difference in our profession.
RIP Ryan Giefer, Wastewater Treatment Superintendent 20 Feb 1989 - 3 Nov 2021 You lived a short life but achieved and contributed big. You're an inspiration to many youngsters around the world.
Yeah, that's it! 🙂 last night, I had to watching this work in the UK. And management of the garbage in London (The best knowledge 👍 by ThaiPBS TV. - มหัศจรรย์การเดินทางของขยะ series 2 ตอนที่ 1) 🙂
Great video! We build WWTPs in region of Southeast Europe but here we prefer SBR technology, just because a lack of space. Your plant is on beautiful, but I suppose placed on a square mile at least. Keep doing good job!
This plant is much more modern than the one where I worked back in the early 90s. Are odors a problem? Headworks can get pretty rank. So, too, can the sludge belt. Do you have ways of mitigating foul smells that might otherwise plague surrounding neighborhoods?
I’m sure I don’t have to repeat what everyone is saying about how excellent, and informative, this video is, I just want to say how sorry I am to hear of Ryan’s passing. It’s unfortunate. My thoughts with his family, at home, and at work. 😔
Instead of combusting the biogas and using a thermal generator, it is cleaner and more efficient to electrochemically oxidize the biogas using a fuel cell (particularly at such small scales). Solid Oxide Fuel Cell is the type for this. FuelcellEnergy even has a solution for waste water treatment application in particular.
@@justinboiter7347 Much easier to get the information from City of Wisconsin Rapids MEDIA RELATIONS department since they are paid to provide information to the public. A call to the operator superintendent, who knows this information like the back of his hand, then post information like they did this video.
Really liked this presentation. Things like this should be incorporated into educational programs in all high schools. Fundamental. Also liked the presentation in another program : "Zurich Werdhoelzli: How does a sewage treatment plant work?" The general population has no understanding and thus no appreciation of the multiplicity of skills involved to prove the quality of life benefits we enjoy.
Im a sewage treatment plant operator here in Philippines for four years I wish I could work in your company to inovate my skills for being a waste water operator I love this job
9:54 Seems to be a ducks swimming in this tank. Look over HIS right shoulder and it is moving to OUR left. Seem again closer at 10:20 . "This water is duck approved." Did you say this plant has a NITROGEN PERMIT? Does that mean you are allowed to send Nitrogen into the river? If so, can you relate the discharge to something a homeowner understands, like "How many pounds of 30-0-0 lawn fertilizer per day?" Thanks
Very interesting, but you should really try to cutt back on saying the word "UMMM" while making a video. It's quite annoying. Other than that great job & thank you.
This tour is decent for people like me (not in the field, but majors in chem & biology, just interested) and I understand GPM, H2S, floc, and other jargon. Some people might not follow the use of jargon well.
Thank you for an interesting presentation. Nice facility. Well run. Nicely presented. Everybody should have a basic understanding of wastewater treatment. You don't mention the odor, but I imagine that there is an aroma. A flow chart might be nice. What percentage of your flow is water versus solids and organic materials? A look at a lift station would be nice. You might also describe the volume between the flow from sanitary and stormwater infiltration. I am sorry for your loss but appreciate your accomplishments. Some of us know and appreciate what people like you do!
The electrical room was funny. Old sparky over there like "yeah you can film in my room....if Im there to supervise" I could just see him thinking "dont Fing touch that!"
You talked about converting nitrogen and phosphorous andother minerals...or those were converted. The hard waste encapsulates them.? Those minerals are expensive to buy as a farmer - do those get wasted? Magnesia . Cal. Threy are all valuable
I did not know that, I’m going to check with my city. Because I have my sub pump underneath my house connected to my sewer line right there next to it with a one way check valve to keep it from possibly back flowing from the sewer line. If I can’t I did not know that. I have roughly 25ftX80ft by 3 feet deep, and sometimes in the winter time underneath my house gets so deep that it’s almost to the trusses on the floor. Instead of digging a long trench to my street and ripping up the sidewalk I personally thought it be easier and faster to connect it to the sewer line underneath my house.
Nice video. Thank you for sharing. I learned a little bit more than what we are doing in our job. I am in the Instrumentation and Control of these STPs and Pumping stations.
Am grateful to the thought of producing this video, I have learned a lot and as an enthusiast in wastewater management I have gained a lot that I know is going to inspire my job, Lots of love from Kenya
Yeah, it's a measurement of dissolved oxygen needed to degrade the organics in the wastewater, and one of the main goals of the treatment plant is to remove these organics. Having a high amount of BOD indicates that there is a high loading of organics in the wastewater and we don't want that in our effluent to be released in the river or ocean and that's why we need to remove the BOD through aeration or activated sludge process.
No way do I want human waste as fertilizer in my yard or in the food I eat. I do not think that is ok at all, no matter if it’s grade a or grade AAA I don’t care sorry.
Great piece of documentary for effective virtual tour. Keep it up and it's helping most of our academics and our students who cannot be physically present
His shift has ended, but his knowledge and legacy live on - with each of us here - forever. A true master of our craft. God only knows the countless number of Operators this video will inspire and educate in the decades to come.
RIP, brother.
His legacy is helping me right now.
Rip Ryan from a fellow operator out of NYS 🤝🏽 great video.. I was saddened to come across the rip comments, really set me back a bit.. was gonna congratulate you on how well you explained the process of your plant and went over the basics. Been in the field 8 years and love to watch videos of other plants and their processes from time to time.
This man cares about his job. Very good video sir.
Love all these types of documentaries.
Thank you everyone for the kind words! I would like to dedicate this video to Ryan Giefer and his family. Ryan passed away in November of 2021. We are deeply saddened by this and we believe this video is a great way to honor his legacy.
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Thank you so much! We love and miss Ryan more than you will ever know. So proud of him and all of his hard work! He loved what he did!
i have an interview for engineer post in my state sewage department. i studied your video and i would like to say thank you very much Wisconsin Rapids Wastewater Treatment Plant. i learn a lot just by your video alone. what a hard work you guys are put into this. and your SCADA system is way more advances that what i have ever worked with. love it and love your content. From Malaysia.
The public needs a tour like this one for recycling plants. Although, those plants only sort pack and ship to Asia without actually recycling. But still.
i took the 2 hour tour of the Deer Island treatment facility which handles Boston and several other communities, it was fascinating.
This is excellent. Good job, brother. Don't question yourself and skip the "um". You have the knowledge.
I love how Ryan spoke about the challenges of wastewater treatment and how the plant seeks to continue improving its sustainability and the treatment process. Awesome tour!
Great video, I'm starting to enter the industry and you are very knowledgeable and explain things very well. Running these plants is an awesome responsibility. I'm excited to join the industry
I'm M1 students in Japan.
My research is to make new WWTP.
This video is very interesting!
Thank you.
This is the best, most comprehensive, and most detailed tour of a wastewater treatment plant that I have ever seen anywhere. These are the men that make your civilization function. They are the reason you've never heard of anyone getting cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever. Day in, day out, ceaselessly, tirelessly, usually thanklessly.
Ryan Giefer, the intelligent, handsome man giving this tour, died in a hunting accident after falling out of a tree stand a few days ago. Keep him and his family in your thoughts for a moment, and consider the countless more like him across this country whose jobs and lives you never hear about, but whose hard work keeps you constantly comfortable and safe in your own daily life. RIP, Ryan.
Thank you! Ryan is my son and I’m so proud of him and miss him so much!
@@juliemotiff4454 I'm so very sorry for your loss. His very thorough and erudite pedagogical contributions here to an interesting and crucial field of work will live on and be seen by countless thousands more all around the world, who will doubtless find them helpful in building and running their own similar systems.
Very interesting and very complex. Thanks for sharing, the tour and info were great!
God bless the engineers, mechanics, and techs who work these plants. The unsung heros of all of modern civilization.
Thank you. Excellent tour. Very interesting! Joe
Thanks for sharing I enjoyed the tour
I have watched a lot of video clips on wastewater treatment and this one is definitely the best-it is comprehensive (inside-the fence and outside-the fence operations), clear, and touches on all major components (including the role of lift stations) and processes. Many thanks for producing this!
R.I.P Ryan, excellent tour.
Well done, guys.Thanks a lot!
This treatment plant tour was excellent! Thank you! Congratulations on all of your achievements and thank you for protecting our environment!
This is a lovely comment, but it is only the opinion of Juan Colon. I'd like to hear how some other Colons feel. And what about the Urethras?
There's a lot more to it than the average person realizes. Thanks for all your hard work.
I'd passed my licensure examination for Sanitary Engineer about one month ago and decided to take the path of Wastewater Engineering Field and this presentation inspired me and created a passion in me to enhance my skill and to explore wastewater engineering to become effective in this field. You guys showed me that I chose the right path for my career thank you for doing an excellent job in your work
Pre-1940 almost every city dumped the sewage right into the rivers.
My home town, I worked for the town, and we still had half the city dumping straight into the river till 2002.
Today, there is still about 20% of the cities houses dump into the river
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Oakland ca used to flush the city on the out going tide
Great video. Nice intro to the science of wastewater treatment. I was very struck by the conscientiousness of the people who run this facility. Civil servants indeed.
Am I the only one that noticed??
At 27:00 - top of the screen, on the tan horizontal pipe labeled “SUCTION DIG 1”… the N in SUCTION is backward. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sorry for the loss of Ryan. He seemed like a true asset to your community and public works as a whole. Such a shame.
My son…so very proud of him!
RIP from a fellow Operator.
This man has an astonishing grasp of the technology he oversees! What a confident and detailed explanation of a hugely varying process. Bravo, and thanks!
10:00 Somebody better tell those ducks they're not going to find any fish in there!
Ducks are great additions to a clarifier or other non aeriated area of the plant, they eat the algae that grows. Aeriated they just might sink
I love how they synced with the presenter saying"4 Digesters" at 11:51 (granted it showed 5 ducks but it still gave me a chuckle) (Edit added a timecode)
Thank you for sharing this with us. Wow, this was very informative and interesting. Again, thank you so much and for all of your hard work that you do. We NEED you
Thanks for excellent tour of Wisconsin's treatment plant!
I do as the algorithm guides
A great and informative plant tour from the start to finish of a wastewater treatment facility/process. Thanks a lot to Ryan and to his group.
Thank you!
Sir you can translate the video in Hindi because you can gat more likes and subscribe
I hope to get hired soon
Thanks for Excellent presentation with easily understandable English.
I have indegenised
Clarifier Central Drive System with Spiral Bevel Gears and lesser HP motors, 35 years before compared to Dorr Oliver or Eimco in India.
Awesome video very informative. I only have one question. What do you do about the biters? I use tanks and artillery but I didn't see any of that. (Factorio, 🤣)
Great presentation on all of the components of wastewater collection and treatment systems, including the resource recovery systems used to generate methane from the waste sludge. Good job! You are making a difference in our profession.
Truly fascinating engineering processes. Real heroes working tirelessly behind the scene.
Love from India
RIP Ryan Giefer, Wastewater Treatment Superintendent
20 Feb 1989 - 3 Nov 2021
You lived a short life but achieved and contributed big. You're an inspiration to many youngsters around the world.
RIP
Yeah, that's it! 🙂 last night, I had to watching this work in the UK. And management of the garbage in London (The best knowledge 👍 by ThaiPBS TV. - มหัศจรรย์การเดินทางของขยะ series 2 ตอนที่ 1) 🙂
Great video! We build WWTPs in region of Southeast Europe but here we prefer SBR technology, just because a lack of space. Your plant is on beautiful, but I suppose placed on a square mile at least. Keep doing good job!
This plant is much more modern than the one where I worked back in the early 90s. Are odors a problem? Headworks can get pretty rank. So, too, can the sludge belt. Do you have ways of mitigating foul smells that might otherwise plague surrounding neighborhoods?
Very good sir. Iam also work the West water treatment plant in Saudi Arabia dhahran Aramco.
Very informative and one of the best detailed video about water treatment process.
I’m sure I don’t have to repeat what everyone is saying about how excellent, and informative, this video is, I just want to say how sorry I am to hear of Ryan’s passing. It’s unfortunate. My thoughts with his family, at home, and at work. 😔
Great tour and explanations, thanks! I love how much this facility helps the environment, look at those happy ducks sitting in the clean water.
Instead of combusting the biogas and using a thermal generator, it is cleaner and more efficient to electrochemically oxidize the biogas using a fuel cell (particularly at such small scales). Solid Oxide Fuel Cell is the type for this. FuelcellEnergy even has a solution for waste water treatment application in particular.
Excellent plant tour! Thanks for putting this together
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I am an employee of the largest sanitation company in the state of São Paulo - Brazil... I would love to exchange knowledge with you...
Raw dogged the sludge judge seeeesssshhhhhhhh
Have new system now using A.O.S advance oxidation system without using chlorine
@ 28:40 he's talking about a HUGE fart running the whole system.. that's awesome 😆💨💨💨
What's your permitted TSS to the river? What about P and Nitrogen?
You can probably look this up online. It’s a state regulation for any plant in that state.
@@justinboiter7347 Much easier to get the information from City of Wisconsin Rapids MEDIA RELATIONS department since they are paid to provide information to the public. A call to the operator superintendent, who knows this information like the back of his hand, then post information like they did this video.
@@bulklogan539 true.
Love the wii sports music
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Great video guys! I learned so much!! Thanks-you for taking the time and doing it!
Y everything happens outdoors? Wouldn’t indoors be more hygienic?
HOW MUCH THIS WHOLE WASTE WATER TRAETMENT COST KINDLY GIVE ME THE AMOUNT BECAUSE WE HAVE PROJECTS HERE NEED TO APPLY THIS WE CAN COMMUNICATE SIR
how much is spend per gallon to treat it so the effluent is acceptable or safe for the environment... or cost per gallon...
Flushable wipes are not Flushable! And neither are clorox wipes!
I work at a sbr in ohio that dumps directly into lake erie. I have a class q operators liscence. I love it
Is there any way for a Mexican to work in that water treatment plant? I am an engineer and I have experience working in water treatment plants.
Really liked this presentation. Things like this should be incorporated into educational programs in all high schools. Fundamental. Also liked the presentation in another program : "Zurich Werdhoelzli: How does a sewage treatment plant work?" The general population has no understanding and thus no appreciation of the multiplicity of skills involved to prove the quality of life benefits we enjoy.
Thanks for sharing I enjoyed the tour
@ 6:40 What if someone poured bleach in the big circle water tank?
how you manage odour in the plant? do you pass the gas through a bio filter?
nice illustration, beneficials to many ones , Cheers
Im a sewage treatment plant operator here in Philippines for four years I wish I could work in your company to inovate my skills for being a waste water operator I love this job
9:54 Seems to be a ducks swimming in this tank. Look over HIS right shoulder and it is moving to OUR left. Seem again closer at 10:20 . "This water is duck approved." Did you say this plant has a NITROGEN PERMIT? Does that mean you are allowed to send Nitrogen into the river? If so, can you relate the discharge to something a homeowner understands, like "How many pounds of 30-0-0 lawn fertilizer per day?" Thanks
Very interesting, but you should really try to cutt back on saying the word "UMMM" while making a video. It's quite annoying. Other than that great job & thank you.
Very interesting. I enjoyed this virtual tour.
Blowers will help keep the NTU down and burn off high NH3 but also will jack up your NO3 numbers. It's a double edged sword 😳.
This tour is decent for people like me (not in the field, but majors in chem & biology, just interested) and I understand GPM, H2S, floc, and other jargon. Some people might not follow the use of jargon well.
Thank you for an interesting presentation. Nice facility. Well run. Nicely presented. Everybody should have a basic understanding of wastewater treatment. You don't mention the odor, but I imagine that there is an aroma. A flow chart might be nice. What percentage of your flow is water versus solids and organic materials? A look at a lift station would be nice. You might also describe the volume between the flow from sanitary and stormwater infiltration. I am sorry for your loss but appreciate your accomplishments. Some of us know and appreciate what people like you do!
The electrical room was funny. Old sparky over there like "yeah you can film in my room....if Im there to supervise" I could just see him thinking "dont Fing touch that!"
You talked about converting nitrogen and phosphorous andother minerals...or those were converted. The hard waste encapsulates them.?
Those minerals are expensive to buy as a farmer - do those get wasted?
Magnesia . Cal. Threy are all valuable
Any job vacancy here
What is done with the liquid when it is outside of disinfecting season?
Have you seen any fissures form around the pump hole?
I did not know that, I’m going to check with my city. Because I have my sub pump underneath my house connected to my sewer line right there next to it with a one way check valve to keep it from possibly back flowing from the sewer line. If I can’t I did not know that. I have roughly 25ftX80ft by 3 feet deep, and sometimes in the winter time underneath my house gets so deep that it’s almost to the trusses on the floor. Instead of digging a long trench to my street and ripping up the sidewalk I personally thought it be easier and faster to connect it to the sewer line underneath my house.
Nice video. Thank you for sharing. I learned a little bit more than what we are doing in our job. I am in the Instrumentation and Control of these STPs and Pumping stations.
Do you happen to having a Sister by any chance..?
Am grateful to the thought of producing this video, I have learned a lot and as an enthusiast in wastewater management I have gained a lot that I know is going to inspire my job, Lots of love from Kenya
Good ol’ Wi Rapids. Where there’re more people than teeth
I’m curious how much easier it would be to process sewage from a community that primarily uses bidets over large amounts of toilet paper.
Thank you for the video above. I came across a ceramic separator and was wondering wherein the system does it fit in?
Were those ducks in the final clarifier? lol
What do you mean by "removing the BOD" ? I thought BOD was a measurement.
Yeah, it's a measurement of dissolved oxygen needed to degrade the organics in the wastewater, and one of the main goals of the treatment plant is to remove these organics. Having a high amount of BOD indicates that there is a high loading of organics in the wastewater and we don't want that in our effluent to be released in the river or ocean and that's why we need to remove the BOD through aeration or activated sludge process.
No way do I want human waste as fertilizer in my yard or in the food I eat. I do not think that is ok at all, no matter if it’s grade a or grade AAA I don’t care sorry.
Very interesting video, thank you
Great piece of documentary for effective virtual tour. Keep it up and it's helping most of our academics and our students who cannot be physically present
do you cover those water treatment holes during storms ,snow,...etc???
antioxidant revolution rejects activated sludge modals #EMRO #TeraGanix
Nice plant, very well explained, cheers from California
Your SCADA is different than mine it's red when running green when not 😳😳.
🤢 He did not wear rubber gloves when handling the sludge judge.
Shame you just dump to river. A reclaimed system would be so much better.
Thanks a ton for creating and sharing this insightful video. I can see my career in this video.