Title: Photo Album OMU 0300336 BV Daviess County 4242006
1Photo Album OMU 0300336 BV Daviess County
4-24-2006
- by L. Peyton Adams
- Madisonville Regional Office
- Kentucky Division of Water
2Camera monitoring of day tanks
3Operators in laboratory at Cavin ready to go work
on sludge pumps
4Owensboro backwash lagoon KYG64 permit influent
5West view from inlet to WTP backwash lagoon
6Effluent box of WTP lagoon whose discharge goes
to ash pond basin of Elmer Smith power plant.
7Cavin Water plant looking south from lagoon.
8Well aeration system and raw sample pull from pit
9Aeration system
10Crom clearwell tank to the east and final
settling basin nearest the aerators
11Backwash tank, filter room, roof bulk storage.
Primary basin
12Well aeration area looking toward NE
13Well aerator base
14Settling basin looking toward the Crom clearwell
tank at basin effluent sampling point for
operators process control
15Operators working on sludge pump
16Basin effluent sampling station in sludge pit room
17Empty abandoned primary settling conduit line
with some corrosion to the catwalk entrance
18Primary settling sample point from catwalk
looking NE
19Weirs and sludge mixing
20CROM above ground clear well
21Overflow flapper at Crom tank
22Overflow flapper at Crom clearwell
23Tile at top of Crom with grout weeping and cracks
24Cracks, decorative tile that keeps falling off,
and top of Crom tank
25Cracking east side of Crom tank
26Manway hatch. Note how the concrete ring slopes
water back toward the foundation.
27Note 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.
28Cavin plant from the Crom tank
29The 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.
30Chemical feeder cleaning in feeder room
31Chemical feeders in diked areas
32Operators cleaning feeder areas
33Day tanks in diked areas with controls and color
coding of piping
34Note scales, color coding of piping, labeling,
and day tank MOR data input points.
35Scales watched by cameras to let operators note
feeder conditions from the Fourth Street tank,
MOR input of pounds of chemical fed from this
procedure.