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Sycamore's wastewater treatment plant

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Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Fred Busse, director of Sycamore Public Works, explains some of the extraction of biosolids in a storage area for those biosolids in the city's wastewater treatment plant on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The biosolids, also known as sludge, are stored until city employees take the materials to a nearby farm that accepts them after crop harvests. The plant's renovations include plans for a centrifuge that will be able to de-water the sludge at a rate of 22%, an improvement over the 10% rate of the rotary fan press they currently use and also uses less chemical polymers.
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Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com

Fred Busse, director of Sycamore Public Works, explains some of the extraction of biosolids in a storage area for those biosolids in the city's wastewater treatment plant on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The biosolids, also known as sludge, are stored until city employees take the materials to a nearby farm that accepts them after crop harvests. The plant's renovations include plans for a centrifuge that will be able to de-water the sludge at a rate of 22%, an improvement over the 10% rate of the rotary fan press they currently use and also uses less chemical polymers.

  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Fred Busse, director of Sycamore Public Works, points to some of the wastewater treatment plant's digesters and aerator tanks in Sycamore, Ill. on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The existing tanks are about 35 years old and additional tanks are coming in the renovations for the plant.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Some of the wastewater treatment plant's digesters and aerator tanks in Sycamore, Ill. on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The existing tanks are about 35 years old and new tanks are coming in the renovations for the plant.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> The older blowers, which push air into the tanks in Sycamore's wastewater treatment plant, are seen on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. Some newer models have been added in another part of the plant during an earlier phase of the renovations.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Rebar is exposed in some of the more worn areas around the Sycamore wastewater treatment plant's digesters and aerator tanks. The tanks are about 35 years old and time and weather has worn them down in some areas. Additional tanks are coming in the renovations for the plant.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Clear water flows through one last leg of Sycamore's wastewater treatment plant before flowing off into the Kishwaukee River on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013.
  • Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Fred Busse, director of Sycamore Public Works, explains some of the extraction of biosolids in a storage area for those biosolids in the city's wastewater treatment plant on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The biosolids, also known as sludge, are stored until city employees take the materials to a nearby farm that accepts them after crop harvests. The plant's renovations include plans for a centrifuge that will be able to de-water the sludge at a rate of 22%, an improvement over the 10% rate of the rotary fan press they currently use and also uses less chemical polymers.
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