Week 43, Part 1- UV units & Belt Filter Press room

Heads up to those following this Blog- you're about to get several e-mails in a short span! I've had some blog posts waiting for final review & publishing but the Electrical schedule and some Pre-Start-Up details have taken all my spare time for the last few weeks.

For time reference- Week 43 was the last full week in March so these events are just over a month old. We will catch up quickly!

The UV disinfection units were loaded in a couple weeks ago. Each unit has 10 racks of UV light tubes. Each rack of lights has it's own ballast. There are 3 UV units therefore 30 nice, stainless steel ballast units to be installed. Here a CNI employee has been patiently hooking these up at the west end of each UV unit-





Over at the Operations Building the "Bagging Area", an open work bay next to the Headworks room, needs a vented metal ceiling.



And here it is several hours later-



Meanwhile there is still work to do in the Lift Stations. This is a shot down into the Influent Lift Station. You can see the white hardhat of a CNI crew member-



In the Belt Filter Press room, things are happenin'. John Gabbard is helping get the main piece of machinery put into place- the Belt Press itself-



Against the east wall of the room we see the Sludge Pump. This will draw sludge all the way from the Treatment Basin, a few hundred feet away-



And now the Belt Press is in it's final position-



On the west wall is a 5 hp air compressor-



And within a day or two All Wall finished installing the Metal Liner Panel in this room-