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Out of sight, but not out of mind-- We take a tour of the wastewater treatment plant
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June 21, 2019
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3:13Now PlayingIDAHO FALLS -- Wedding rings, toys, and dentures-- You might be surprised at some of the things that make it down the drain and end up at the Idaho Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The plant handles 9.5 million gallons of wastewater per day from Idaho Falls, the Iona/Bonneville Sewer District and Ucon.
"We have over 300 miles of pipe that actually bring wastewater to this particular facility," Public Works Director Chris Fredericksen says.
What enters the wastewater treatment plant is vastly different from what comes out and, at the end of the process, human waste is hardly considered "waste" anymore; rather, "biosolid."
"Just like newspapers, aluminum cans, plastic goods, we're recycling the water that's been used, so it can be reused again," Wastewater Division Foreman Darrin Lords says.
(Read more at EastIdahoNews.com)
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