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Everyone calls me the asshole, but I think I look more like a cat! | SOMETIMES NSFW | โœจ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ, He/Him | 27 | Biting a maned wolf wastewaster enthusiast ๐Ÿ’• | BLM! ACAB! Big fan of pigeons, Garfield, and isopods ๐Ÿ’•โœจ

When designed in 1995, the Wetlands were meant to receive and treat backwash water from filters in the new Reclaimed WTP. Water was split between two treatment trains that send water through an initial settling basin, then to a larger polishing basin, before finally flowing to the recharge basins.

Bildgreen: water from RWTP (and later, ANWRF) to the Wetlands
orange: initial settling basins for sedimentation
lime: "polishing" basin with longer residence time, biofiltration, etc.
blue: aquifer recharge basins; flow from wetlands combined with secondary effluent for recharge and treatment within the aquifer
purple: groundwater extraction wells, which recover groundwater for use by the RWTP and Tucson Recycled Water System

it's #maneymonday, and good GRIEF it's been busy lately! that being said, here's the post I promised about the Sweetwater Wetlands from our visit to Arizona ๐Ÿ‘€

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Arin (drain gang!) ๐Ÿ”œ TFS@maneybabey.bsky.social ยท 4mo ago

I almost missed this week's #maneymonday!!! anyways, one of the many benefits of being a maned wolf is that your long legs make it easy to get a great view of ponds! while I prefer the stormwater variety, here's a constructed wetland we recently visited over in Arizona (lengthier post to come)!