• Town of Collierville, Tennessee
• City of Winchester, Kentucky
• City of Alcoa, Tennessee
• Harpeth Valley Utility District
• Morehead Utility Plant Board
• City of Elizabethton, Tennessee

Strodes Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant

Owner

Winchester Municipal Utilities
P.O. Box 4177
Winchester, Kentucky 40392
Killis Sinkhorn
(859) 744-5434

Engineer

CDP Engineers
3250 Blazer Pkwy
Lexington, Kentucky 40509
Mr. Ken Roseman
(859) 264-7500

Contract Amount

$21.3 million

Year Completed

2008

The new Strodes Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant includes a 24.0 MGD influent pump station/screenings facility designed to provide complete pumping redundancy and influent flow measurement. Preliminary treatment includes two mechanical fine screens with an integral screw conveyors and a manual bypass coarse bar screen. All screenings will take place before the wastewater is pumped.

Following preliminary treatment, the wastewater enters a series of basins to begin the biological treatment process. Anaerobic basins are designed to promote the growth of phosphorus-storing microorganisms, providing biological phosphorus removal as required by the Kentucky Division of Water. Four large oxidations ditches provide dissolved oxygen treatment to allow for the removal of 640 mg/L of BOD following the phosphorus removal system.

Following the biological processes, four 105-foot diameter final clarifiers remove suspended solids. The clarified effluent is disinfected using ultraviolet light and oxygenated via a re-aeration ladder. Effluent from the facility is measured using a transit-time flow meter prior to being discharged into Strodes Creek. Waste solids are injected with polymer, dewatered using two new gravity belt thickeners placed above the two existing belt filter presses, and hauled to an approved landfill.