For the City of Chico, California, a small and limited staff means system automation is critical to wastewater treatment plant operations.
Chico wastewater treatment plant manager James Carr and Chico lead operator Travis Elliott recently sat down with Water & Wastes Digest to discuss how the City maintains the facility with a smaller workforce. Carollo managing director of technical practices Jim Hagstrom highlights the impacts of anticipated population growth at the plant. Ekster & Associates technical director Alex Ekster explains how machine learning and automatic ammonia control systems are addressing dissolved oxygen issues at the plant.
