A water treatment plant has four clarifiers treating 80 mgd


A water treatment plant has four clarifiers treating 8.0 MGD (0.350 m3/sec) of water. Each clarifier is 16 ft (4.88 m) wide, 80 ft (24.4 m) long, and 15 ft (4.57 m) deep. Determine:

A. The detention time (hr)

B. Overflow rate (gpd/ft2)

C. Horizontal velocity (ft/min)

D. Weir loading rate (gpd/ft) assuming the weir is 2.5 times the basin width

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