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Marshall Well
Jerome Water Works Department
Updated July 30, 2007
Our Address is:
Office Hours-Monday-Friday:7:30 4:30pm Operations
50 North 100 West
Jerome, ID 83338 Summer: Monday–Friday 6:30-3:00pm (Entire
Crew)
Telephone: (208) 324-7122 Winter:
Monday-Friday 7-4:30pm (Entire Crew)
Contact Information
For more information about the Jerome Water Works Department please contact:
John Boyd – Wastewater Director at 324-7122 and leave a message. We check the machine
daily and will return your calls promptly.
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The Wastewater Team consists of seven Operators- five Licensed in Wastewater and Collections and two Operators in Training (OIT).
| John Boyd, Wastewater Director | Licensed in Wastewater, Water, and Collections | jboyd@ci.jerome.id.us |
| Zane Austin, Division Leader-Collections | Licensed in Wastewater, Water, and Collections | zaustin@ci.jerome.id.us |
| Dennis Gross, Operations Supervisor | Licensed in Wastewater, and Collections | |
| Ken Tse, Operator I | Licensed in Wastewater, Water and Collections. | |
| Kelly Lee, Operator I | Licensed in Wastewater, and Collections | |
| Sean Kirk, Wastewater Operator in Training | ||
| Lee Preston, Collections Operator in Training |
This team was put together in the interests of turning the City of Jerome Wastewater Treatment Plant into an award winning plant. This goal was met when the Idaho Rural Water Association awarded The Jerome Wastewater Treatment Facility as the 2006 PLANT OF THE YEAR.
From left to right: Zane, Dennis, Kelly, John, Ken, Sean, (not pictured Lee)
The goal is a plant that the Jerome citizens can be proud of. With your support and input, we are well on our way to accomplish this goal and continue to seek ways to improve and provide all with the best service possible.
Our Mission Statement
The Jerome Wastewater Dept will continue to provide quality, professional services to all customers. We will keep our commitment to protecting and enhancing our environment by cost effectively operating and maintaining the plant, and exceeding all requirements set forth by the regulatory agencies, to ensure public safety and health
Our Program Description
The Wastewater Team is responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of the Plant, and the Collections System, including lift stations. The Plant is regulated through the Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) permitted through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Team is committed to protecting the environment, and accomplishes this by consistently monitoring the Plant, the ever growing Industries, making sure the discharges are within their permitted boundaries. The rapid waves of change shaking the wastewater industry mean that every one of us has to be as productive as possible.
The Wastewater Team will continue to keep pace with the ever changing times. They will continue to improve their education, making it possible to quickly respond to the new environmental regulations that will help protect the environment. This responsibility represents a key component in this department’s overall mission. The main objective is to protect the environment while providing service to the citizens of Jerome
· The Headworks is being worked on quite and making progress quite rapidly. One screen is installed and the building is going up. (See Headworks Picture).
· The MBR tanks are finished; the walls for the rest of the building and the floor are being poured.
· The sludge pump building is also in the process, with the pump manifold being installed.
· The three emergency generators (gensets)are onsite and the main electrical feed is being installed and then the pad for the gensets being poured.
· The headworks building is being erected. With the MBR being erected towards the middle of August.
· All the previous buildings have been sided with a blue metal siding.
Below is a description of the new State Of The Art Wastewater Process that will be used at the Jerome Facility.
Membrane
Bioreactor (MBR) Technology
The plant can be easily upgraded to include a membrane bioreactor (MBR) process. An MBR uses the activated sludge process to reduce the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and nutrients in the waste stream. It then filters out the solids from the clean water with a membrane. It is an ideal treatment process for plant with highly variable loads or high strength loads like the Jerome Plant has experienced. Kubota/Enviroquip manufactures a flat plate membrane.
Below are details and a map of what the current design is, and what needs to be upgraded at the Jerome Wastewater Treatment Plant.
This building will be constructed primarily to house the membranes, their tanks, permeate pumps, disinfection equipment, and blowers. The building will offer protection and ease of operation especially during cold weather periods, which generally improves operability and prolongs equipment life. It is anticipated that this will be a pre-engineered metal building with a concrete floor and stem walls. The building will be approximately 80’ wide by 120’ long with about a 14’ eave height.
A secondary Bio-Tower will be built south of the Headworks building. This structure is needed
to help treat the amount of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) that this facility will see. This
also incorporates a new Bio-Tower recirculation pit. This will allow the two towers to be loaded
to their design capacity and no more. This will help keep odors to a very bare minimum if any.
A good quality headworks facility will ensure long membrane life. The installation of new headworks building which will consist of two new band style screens with screenings washers and compactors, A new grit trap and mechanism, and a new grit classifier.
These items will completely rehabilitate the headworks facility and will provide adequate screening, screenings washing and dewatering, improved grit removal and classification.
The existing aeration basins will remain in service. With the recent improvement to the aeration system, no major improvements are needed in these basins. Some adjustments will be made in order to accommodate the changes in the flow pattern, which will include the installation of pumps at the outfall of the basin in order to pump the flow to the membrane building.
With a new phosphorus limit possible in the new permit, and as the phosphorus loading increases at the facility, it will be increasingly difficult to meet the effluent limits. Thus chemical addition equipment will need to be installed. The equipment will consist of a chemical storage tank, a few small chemical feed pumps, and conveyance piping to several injection points.
Ultraviolet disinfection equipment will be installed just downstream of the pumps in the membrane building. With membrane effluent, UV disinfection is very efficient and it eliminates the need of adding chlorine and then having to dechlorinate prior to discharging the water.
SCADA CONTROL
The service entrance will be modified to include an automatic transfer switch and distribution panel. The transfer switch will be connected to three standby generators capable of operating the critical loads in the facility.
The utility water system will be upgraded to supply sufficient effluent water to the various yard hydrants around the plant, the headworks facility, belt press facility, and any additional area that may need utility water.
The operators have begun painting the existing structures at the facility. Any structures that need additional painting or coatings will receive treatment as required in order to maintain good appearance and prevent unnecessary deterioration.
The Wastewater Team set out as a goal almost 5 years ago: to bring this plant back to normal operational standards, and then start the quality process to turn this plant into an award winning plant, One that you, the citizen, will be proud to visit and take a tour.
Please call if you have questions that need answered or have comments.
Thank You for your time and interest.
John Boyd
Wastewater Director
City of Jerome