Lakeside Equipment's Septage Acceptance Plant (SAP) is designed to separate inorganic solids from the incoming liquids.
Click here to enlarge imageLike most municipalities, the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) was faced with the problem of receiving waste from septage haulers. This raised a number of issues related to user authorization, tracking wastes, operations and billing. With the assistance of Municipal Solutions Ltd. and Lakeside Equipment, the district was able to address these questions to the satisfaction of its operations staff and the septage haulers as end users.
GVRD purchased two Municipal Solutions WTS Access Terminals and the company's integrated Access Security and Billing Software. This allowed the district to meet its objectives with respect to restricting access to authorized haulers, and provided a means of tracking who was dumping what, and when.
The system provides a date and time stamped record of the following items:
• Company and individual truck dumping at the facility
• Identification of the generator of the waste
• Waste classification or type of waste being dumped
• Verification that identified industrial wastes have been pre-authorized
The WTS system features touch pad access with automated billing software. The integrated software solution saved countless hours of reading meters and calculating billing costs and increased the accuracy of the billing information by transferring it all electronically over GVRD's local area network (LAN). In addition, the need to maintain, distribute, and manage costly card or key equipment systems was eliminated.
The weatherproof Access Terminal is used by the carrier truck driver to input an access number, security PIN (Personal Identification Number) and (optional) waste generator and/or waste class before authorizing the waste disposal. Each transaction is date and time stamped and includes the volume of liquid waste being discharged. The transactions are retrieved from the station by the WTS software system at user-defined intervals by telephone communications or LAN. Transactions stored in the access terminal are unaffected by power disruption.
The complete software billing package allows GVRD to set disposal charges based on a single rate per vehicle or based on the waste classification. Billing information is generated automatically with full reporting of information on each account. Historical data is maintained for each carrier for future reference and statistics are maintained for each fill station.
The WTS Software is designed to be user definable by the municipality. Invoices can be billed based on load, volume, axle, sample, etc. or any combination there of. The GVRD decided it would invoice its customers by volume and waste class.
Septage Sludge Handling
GVRD purchased a Septage Acceptance Plant (SAP) from Lakeside Equipment Corp. to separate the inorganic solids from the liquids. The SAP's quick processing cycle and full penetration cleaning minimizes unloading time to help maximize revenue generation for GVRD.
Because captured solids are washed, compacted and dewatered up to 40 percent solids content, disposal costs are reduced. The Lakeside SAP also minimizes maintenance expenses with its all stainless steel construction and a single drive. With only one motorized moving part, the unit is durable and simple in design.
The solids are separated into a bagging system and gathered into a garbage container and hauled to a landfill when full. The liquids flow through the screen and carry on to the head works facility for treatment.
