Headworks: One of the Most Important Parts of the Waste System

When you flush your toilet, it’s not the end of the road for your wastewater. The water flows out of your house and into the public waterworks, where it inevitably finds its way into the first—and perhaps most important—part of the public water system: the headworks. As you might expect from the name, the headworks is the first stage of the water treatment process and, as such, it does a lot of literal heavy lifting.

In fact, the purpose of the headworks is to remove large inorganic materials from the wastewater. The goal is to make sure the wastewater is free of toxins and debris when it reaches downstream equipment. Headworks accomplish this wastewater cleaning in Camden County, MO through a variety of methods.

Pumps

The first step in the cleaning process is to simply get the water from an influent well (i.e., the place it ends up after its journey through the public waterworks) into the headworks themselves. This is accomplished with the help of a pump. Engineers can employ one of a variety of pumps to get the water into your headworks. The choice will depend on the size of your operation, the size of the influent well, the contamination levels of the water and several other factors.

Screening systems

Once the water has been pumped into the headworks, it is sent through a complex set of screens. In our modern times, wastewater and wastewater sludge can be reused for a variety of purposes, so thorough wastewater cleaning in Camden County, MO is vital. For example, wastewater is used to irrigate certain places like golf courses. Of course, before it can be reused, the incoming wastewater must be screened and cleared of debris.

Water screens are often divided into three varieties: coarse, fine and micro. Coarse screens are used to filter out large debris like sticks, rocks and trash. Fine screens come next and are meant to remove smaller items that can slip through a coarse screen (think condoms and feminine hygiene products). Micro screens are very rarely found in public waterworks.

Grit removal

Once the larger bits of rubbish have been taken out of the wastewater, it’s time to remove the grit. Grit is the minute particulate that can slide through even the best-maintained fine screen. Another series of screens filters out this tiny matter and then pumps it into a part of the headworks where it can be dewatered and transported off-site.

Let experience lead the way

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