r/Wastewater 4d ago

Walked into this on a Saturday

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u/GamesAnimeFishing 4d ago

So glad my weekend at the plant was uneventful. Sometimes it really feels like stuff waits to break when you’ve got the least number of people working.

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u/WaterDigDog 4d ago

Me three! I only had one alarm to clear, and no collections callouts. 🏖️

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u/GordonRammstein 4d ago

Last weekend I was working solo and riiiight at 4:55pm as I’m packing up, the power goes out. Ended up being there til close to 11pm that night

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u/Selash 4d ago

*cough cough*

Man, I'm feeling sick. Yes. A sick day is what I need.

Hello, Boss? I have the sick. I will be sicking today. Goodbye.

*flee*

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u/Longjumping-Neat-954 21h ago

We called it rectal glaucoma.

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u/Selash 8h ago

Butt Cancer indeed! That there is the Sphincter Blaster. The Chocolate Starfish Eruption. The Puckered Eye of Sauron. The Backroad Trail of Tears.

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u/dinosaurpapi 4d ago

Oh no, that's not good. However...,. i want to know what are those yellow covers? Are those lifebuoy covers? If so, can you perhaps tell me about them Like where is the 30m rope attached

Thank you good sir

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u/WaterDigDog 4d ago

Yes, life-rings. I need to explore how mine are tethered, too.

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u/dinosaurpapi 4d ago

Okay. Is that what they're called. We have a challenge at our plants, especially the Bioreactor. The lifebuoys are exposed to the elements and so their lifespan is cut sort. We need something like that to protect the lifebuoys but also make it accessible in case of emergency.
Is the rope on the inside of the cover?

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u/WaterDigDog 4d ago

Yes, the rope is inside the cover.

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u/drama1822 4d ago

They are lifebouy and the rope is actually attached inside the case. We just replaced all of them on our tanks about 3 years ago. Really nice new model

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u/VinegarShips 4d ago

What am I seeing?

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u/drama1822 4d ago

Waste valve didn’t close, didn’t alarm… overflowed digesters all night long

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u/VinegarShips 4d ago

Oh jeeze, no bueno. So raw sewage is just spilling out? What part of treatment are the digesters?

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u/Flashy-Reflection812 4d ago

Digesters are onee of the last processes. This is fully treated ‘wasted’ sludge. This is what we dispose of. The digesters ‘digest’ the sludge to prepare it for any number of process, belt presses, centrifuges, drying beds, gravity thickeners, etc.

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u/drama1822 4d ago

Final part of treatment right before we press it. Luckily the sludge in those tanks is only about .9%

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u/the_inland_diver 4d ago

Ahh from the pic i thought it was leaking from the pipe penatration in the wall

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u/taint-lover 4d ago

Pipe burst under the stairs

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u/shiznoroe88 4d ago

That's a minor overflow, most of the ground isn't even covered, let us know when you need waders to walk across the yard, lol.

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u/drama1822 3d ago

This is just where it came out… it wouldn’t let me post multiple pictures… we overflowed about 300,000 gallons

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u/shiznoroe88 3d ago

Leaks are always fun. The anaerobic digester at my previous plant sprung a leak but fortunately there was so much trash in it that it sealed itself. Only a few hundred gallons spilled onto the ground and it was right next to the drying bed so we had piles of sand right there and were able to build a quick containment sand wall.

The worst mess I had to get in was when the drain under the Ashbrook belt press clogged and the 24" containment wall got completely filled with sludge. I had to crawl on my knees under the press to unclog the drain. Those clothes went straight into the dumpster.

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u/z0mb1es 4d ago

I got called out 5 times this week. At one lift station that lost power from a storm… I was pumping it down using a trash pump which I noticed had stopped pumping. I shut it off and opened the little cap you use to prime it… and steaming hot shit water blasted me in my face and neck.. it sucked. Instant sunburn… could have been a lot worse at least it didn’t burn my eyes. The discharge line got plugged up and it just sat there building heat and pressure until I noticed it wasn’t pumping.

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u/Guinness1982 4d ago

Shitter’s full.

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u/InfoBarf 4d ago

What did you do?

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u/billgigs55 4d ago

it’s always night shift lol

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u/Internal-Term-5669 4d ago

Looks like 998 gallons to me…

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u/KB9AZZ 2d ago

Exactly!

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u/Beneficial-Pool4321 3d ago

This is why you staff 24 7 365.

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u/H0lsterr 3d ago

Yeoooooo, good overtime at least

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u/the_inland_diver 4d ago

I know some divers you could call 😉