Wastewater Reclamation Facilities – City of Wildwood, Florida
The City of Wildwood, Florida has experienced significant commercial and industrial growth requiring expansion of their wastewater treatment facilities. The City’s influent flow included high strength, non-conventional pollutants and widely varying hydraulic characteristics. BFA was retained by the City to provide planning, design, permitting, construction management and resident observation services for a 2.25 MGD wastewater treatment plant upgrade and expansion and public access reclaimed water facilities. Plant improvements and expansion were completed in two phases with facilities consisting of expanding the wastewater treatment plant operations and maintenance buildings, pretreatment system; flow equalization basin; flow paced variable speed influent pump station; new oxidation ditch and retrofit of existing two ditches to operate in Phased Isolation Ditch process mode (Kruger Process); clarifier; top-feed Dynasand filtration system (first in Florida); chlorine contact tank expansion and ton cylinder chlorination system; reclaimed water pump station; plant SCADA system; administration building; and 16,000 L.F. 16” reclaimed water transmission main.
Reclaimed water application sites for 2.25 MGD capacity consist of irrigation of the Lake Miona Golf Course and a 50 acre Rapid Infiltration Basin (RIB) site. Extensive site specific hydrogeological investigations, including ground penetrating radar and fracture zone analysis, were conducted in conjunction with the design and permitting requirements
Notable Features:
- Conversion of existing BNR process to three ditch phased isolation BNR process.
- Non-domestic wastewater characteristics (strength and flow).
- Filter structure designed to allow for additional modules to be inserted in future as flow increases.
- Extensive hydrogeological modeling and use of state of the art technology for sinkhole formation potential.
- Golf course storage pond partially lined to allow for percolation of effluent during wet weather when irrigation is not practiced.