The System
The Aqua Safe® system is a scaled down version of a larger township and municipality sewage treatment plant.
The extended aeration process is a unique treatment that depends primarily upon the use of air that is introduced by passing from the blower to four air lines located around the perimeter of the mixing chamber.
Aqua Safe® plants are made up of outer mixing tanks and a settling chamber called a clarifier. Raw unsettled wastewater from your home enters directly into a mixing tank where simple hydraulic displacement is accomplished.
The introduction of air promotes the growth of aerobic organisms in much greater amounts than would naturally occur, thus breaking down the organic solids in the wastewater.
From the outer mixing tank or aeration chamber, mixed liquid enters the cone shaped settling chamber, better know as the clarifier, from the bottom. No mixing occurs in this quiet zone where solids separate from the liquid and settle to the bottom of the clarifier and re-enter the mixing chamber. The liquid that separates from the solids in the clarifier continues to flow upward to the discharge pipe.
The result of the Aqua Safe® process is clear, odorless, effluent discharge, which meets or exceeds state water quality standards.
