For most people, treatment of wastewater from homes and businesses is one of those it-just-happens things taken care of by local governments. But any facility too isolated to connect to a larger sewer system—such as a school, office or retailer—will have to supply its own treatment for obvious practical reasons and to avoid a variety of fines from environmental agencies.These isolated locations often have too much water to treat using a septic tank, so they must provide their own wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), usually a miniature version of city-scale counterparts. The main operational problem these small-scale WWTPs face is flow variability. A small-scale WWTP…
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