Problem: Big Guys Campground in Brockport, New York, was established in 2020 after the owners purchased the golf course and club house property with the vision to convert the space to a campground with an event center, store, fitness center and other facilities. During the system permitting process it was discovered that there was a known imperiled mussel population located in the stream of the proposed outfall of the wastewater treatment plant.
Solution: Two options were presented by the NYSDEC to the owners. One was to immediately impose ammonia limits that the wastewater treatment plant would need to meet at the end of the pipe before discharging to the stream. The second option was that if the owners choose not to construct a system designed to meet the proposed limits, they could apply a dilution factor based on flow rates from the ponds on property to the same location of the wastewater treatment plant’s outfall. An ECOPOD Advanced Wastewater Treatment System from Infiltrator Water Technologies was designed to meet the new ammonia effluent requirements of 1.25 mg/L (summer) / 2.75 mg/L (winter). The system is designed to handle 16,165 gpd. A single-compartment tank with an ECOPOD E3400D was installed in an epoxy coated steel tank.
Result: The system was installed in three phases to meet the needs of the campground as they expanded during the initial years of operation. Testing has determined that effluent meets the requirements of the NYSDEC for protecting the mussel population.
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