In-System Storage Controls for Reduction of Combined Sewer Overflow, Saginaw, Michigan. Executive Summary

摘要

The report overviews the results of a recently completed five-year combined sewer overflow (CSO) control program in Saginaw, Michigan (10,000 acres, Pop. 85,000) funded by City of Saginaw/U.S. EPA 108 Great Lakes National Program. The implemented control program entailed modification of 13 combined sewer regulation chamber to maximize transient system storage of wet weather combined sewerage for later bleedback to a well-operated Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) having phosphorous removal and ample treatment capacity. These improvements, 'the reduced Best Management Practices (BMP) plan', represent a partial completion of the first of two phases of the City's CSO Facility Plan.