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PROJECT SPOTLIGHTS Water

McComb Wastewater Treatment
Plant | McComb, MS

Neel-Schaffer designed a state-of-the-art wastewater
treatment facility for the City of McComb (MS) that was
the first in Mississippi that uses a unique system to reduce
operating costs and consume its own waste. The $34
million facility processes wastewater for the entire region
in an environmentally responsible manner and serves as
the example for regional solutions to the costly problem of
upgrading wastewater treatment plants to comply with new
environmental permitting regulations.
Using a naturally occurring biological process, the system
uses “bugs” to break down waste and eat the bacteria in
the treated water. The Cannibal™ basin is a large holding
facility that is depleted of all oxygen. Highly aerobic
microorganisms (bugs) within the activated sludge are
introduced into an environment of facultative, low-in-oxygen
bugs, where they are “consumed” by the oxygen-depleted
bugs, hence the “cannibal” application. This cannibalistic
process greatly reduces the amount of sludge produced,
which in turn limits the amount that must be disposed.

2.5-MG Water Storage Tank |
Garland, TX

Neel-Schaffer provided engineering design services for
a new 2.5-MG composite elevated storage tank that was
built on a 1.24-acre tract on the southwest corner of the
intersection of McCree Road and Leon Road in Garland, TX.
The basic services included site civil grading, site paving,
site drainage, on-site water layout, landscaping, irrigation,
fencing, pedestrian and vehicle gates, lighting, electrical,
erosion control plan, security, supervisory control and data
acquisition (SCADA), and design surveying. SCADA and
I&C design incorporated control and monitoring of all new
process equipment and other items identified by the owner
and engineer into the existing plant SCADA system. The
scope of services also included water system modeling and
water storage tank site selection analysis.

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