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Herald & Lantern 31 August *83

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Plant Still Plagued By Odor

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SWAINTON - Roy Gillian, Cdunty Municipal Utilities Authority Commissioner, recently criticized the authority’s consulting engineers for the operational problems that continue to plague the Ocean City Region ^.wastewater treatment facilities. ) ‘I am still receiving odor Complaints from city officials and residents of the (area surrounding the new \45th Street plant.Gillian

remarked, “(f, after all the effort and money we have spent trying to correct the problem, people can smell offensive odors at their homes blocks away, then I question the original design of the plant and hold PQA Engineering Co. responsible.” Gillian said that reports have been submitted claiming odors are now emanating from the thickener tanks in additioni to the sludge dewatering

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building. MUA CHIEF Engineer Charles Norkis explained that the newly installed odor control equipment had solved the odor problems at the 3rd, 20th and 32nd Street pumping stations. "We still have a problem at the 46th Street plant due to the fact that the air scrubbing equipment is not completely operational as yet,’’ Norkis said. ”A representative of the manufacturer was scheduled to be in Ocean City to introduce chemicals into the system for the first time and to assist in debugging the operation. We fully expect the odor problem to be corrected at the sludge dewatering building when the system is fully operational,” Norkis said. r Norkis acknowledged that local officials and residents had complained and had cited the sludge thickener tank as the cause of the odors. ”My staff could not find evidence that offensive odors were emanating from the sludge thickener. The sludge thickener and sludge\ dewatering building are adjacent to each other and, therefore, I recommend that we solve the sludge dewatering odor problem first, then we can determine if there is another source of odors We don’t know that now.” GILLIAN. WHO lives in Ocean City, urged the MUA and its staff to review the design of the Cape May Region Plant now under construction to avoid similar problems there “If the Ocean City Plant, the newest and most modern facility to be built, has problems in the design, we should do all we can to avoid them in Cape May and other reigons,” Gillian stated. “Based on our experience in Ocean City, odor control equipment was designed into the Cape May plant and will be installed there,” George Marinakis, executive director, stated. “We have also designed odor control equipment into the Seven Mile/Middle and Wildwood/Lower facilities that will be built in the * future.” Marinakis said the MUA staff agrees with Gillian that no odors should go beyond the property limits of the treatment plant site. ”We are committed to solving the problems, wherever they are. There can be no excuse. If there is evidence of negligence in the design of the system, we will pursue that course also. “Significant reduction in odors has been realized at the pumping stations. Now we must continue to pursue the problems at the treatment plant,” Marinakis stated.

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