Photo Album OMU 0300336 BV Daviess County 4242006

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Photo Album OMU 0300336 BV Daviess County
4-24-2006

• by L. Peyton Adams
• Madisonville Regional Office
• Kentucky Division of Water

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Camera monitoring of day tanks
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Operators in laboratory at Cavin ready to go work
on sludge pumps
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Owensboro backwash lagoon KYG64 permit influent
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West view from inlet to WTP backwash lagoon
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Effluent box of WTP lagoon whose discharge goes
to ash pond basin of Elmer Smith power plant.
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Cavin Water plant looking south from lagoon.
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Well aeration system and raw sample pull from pit
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Aeration system
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Crom clearwell tank to the east and final
settling basin nearest the aerators
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Backwash tank, filter room, roof bulk storage.
Primary basin
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Well aeration area looking toward NE
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Well aerator base
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Settling basin looking toward the Crom clearwell
tank at basin effluent sampling point for
operators process control
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Operators working on sludge pump
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Basin effluent sampling station in sludge pit room
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Empty abandoned primary settling conduit line
with some corrosion to the catwalk entrance
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Primary settling sample point from catwalk
looking NE
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Weirs and sludge mixing
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CROM above ground clear well
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Overflow flapper at Crom tank
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Overflow flapper at Crom clearwell
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Tile at top of Crom with grout weeping and cracks
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Cracks, decorative tile that keeps falling off,
and top of Crom tank
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Cracking east side of Crom tank
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Manway hatch. Note how the concrete ring slopes
water back toward the foundation.
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Note cracks from freezing and thawing, condensate
that makes an algae growth on tank issue in the
right weather, and how water runs towards the
tank off this ring instead of away from the
foundation.
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Cavin plant from the Crom tank
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The chemical feeder troughs lie with grates in
the driveway to feed the settling basins. To
avoid vehicle drop off in winter etc., the grates
are covered with conveyor material to protect the
basins from drips etc.
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Chemical feeder cleaning in feeder room
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Chemical feeders in diked areas
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Operators cleaning feeder areas
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Day tanks in diked areas with controls and color
coding of piping
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Note scales, color coding of piping, labeling,
and day tank MOR data input points.
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Scales watched by cameras to let operators note
feeder conditions from the Fourth Street tank,
MOR input of pounds of chemical fed from this
procedure.