Ft. Valley needed to expand the Walter S. Lanter WRF and had Carter & Sloope Engineers provide the design for the process expansion.

Ft. Valley wanted to pilot a centrifuge at their site prior to the plant expansion. The intent was to see how it would perform with their sludge as well as allow Ft. Valley to take a hands on approach with the equipment to see how they liked operating a centrifuge. Carter & Sloope invited Centrisys to provide a pilot skid mounted centrifuge for a one week pilot.

Ft. Valley ran the pilot at various flow rates and used various polymers to see where the "sweet spot" was for their dewatering their sludge. The Centrisys centrifuge performed very well and Ft. Valley made a decision to use Centrisys as the basis of design for their plant expansion.

The Centrifuge is currently operating and is performing as expected. Everyone is thrilled with the dry solids coming off the centrifuge. The sludge pump used for feeding the digested sludge to the centrifuge is a Netzsch pump.

Carter & Sloope Engineers needed fabricated gates to use throughout the plant and selected Fontaine as the basis of design. These well constructed gates can be found throughout the plant. 

When Carter & Sloope needed to design a baffle curtain in the aeration basin, they called Engineered Textile Products for the design details. ETP worked with the engineers to come up with a design that allowed for the baffle to function properly over a wide range of water depth in the basin. ETP’s durable materials of construction and quality manufacturing techniques were specified and eventually supplied for this project.