| Winchester, Kentucky: Photo Tour Narrated by Roy Burgher |
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Winchester, a thriving city of Clark County, Kentucky, was founded in 1793 and is now home to over 16,000 people. With optimal transportation, education and natural resources, Winchester has evolved from an agricultural based community to a haven for business development. |  |
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 Director of Operations Roy Burgher (859) 744-5434 rburgher@wmutilities.com |
Plant Superintendent Killis Sinkhorn (859) 744-3031 Average Daily Flow: 6.0 MGD |
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| " Hi. I'm Roy Burgher and I am the Director of
Operations for Winchester Municipal Utilities. In addition to our Wastewater
Treatment Facility, I am responsible for Water, Yard Waste and Municipal Solid Waste. When the above ad was published, we did have a 1 1/2 year waiting list. Our success has grown and currently we have a 2 1/2 year waiting list of farmers who want our product. We have developed a delivery and spreading fee, based on the distance to the farm from our Treatment Plant. My Superintendent, Killis Sinkhorn, will give you a tour of our facility and will tell you more about our biosolids program. Many of you may know of Killis, as he is a former long-time employee of the State of Kentucky and was a key person in developing training programs for water and wastewater." |
| "Hi. I'm Killis Sinkhorn and I am the Plant Superintendent of our Wastewater Treatment Plant located on Van Meter Road. When our biosolids building was started in May of 1998, we had 25,000,000 gallons of excess sludge in our storage lagoons. The biosolids facility was designed to completely process all of the lagoon sludge, as well as our daily sludge production, over the next five years. At that time, our sludge lagoons will be completely emptied." |
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"This is our administration and laboratory building, where my office
is located. You can see the lime storage silo and biosolids processing building in the background." |
| "Our dredge moves around the lagoons and reaches down as far as 14' to
pump the sludge to an aerated 40' square holding tank. The sludge is then pumped
from our holding tank directly to our two belt filter presses." |
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"We have two Andritz™ Belt Filter Presses. In the background you can see our elevated control room and on the other side of the control room is the RDP EnVessel™ Pasteurization System." |
| "We operate both presses simultaneously and generate an average cake solids of 17%." |
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| "Each of our Belt Filter Presses' have a separate control panel, which is located outside of the control room on the elevated platform." |
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| "Once the presses are up and operating, we can visually monitor the press operation from the control room. This photograph was taken from inside the control room." |
"This photograph was taken looking back into our control room." |
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" The Belt Presses discharge onto our Serpentix
Conveyor, which is on 38° incline. This photograph also gives you a better view of our combination elevated control room and motor control center. The motor control center is located on the first floor and houses the MCC for all the motor starters. It is also home to the RDP Heat System Power Control Center, Variable Frequency Drives and SCR controller for our Volumetric Lime Screw Feeder. The first floor also contains a restroom and a small laboratory where we do our pH testing." |
| "The VFD's for the ThermoFeeder™ and ThermoBlender™ are wall mounted and located on the right side of the photograph. In the background you can see the SCR Controller for the Volumetric Screw Feeder." |
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| "Our ThermoFeeder™ is located to the left. In the background, the ThermoFeeder™ discharges into the ThermoBlender™ where lime is added." |
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"In the background, you can see our ThermoBlender™ with LimeAddition Screw. The ThermoBlender™ the discharges into our Pasteurization Vessel." |
"This is our Pasteurization Vessel. We have a temperature probe at the inlet point and one at the discharge point, which makes monitoring product temperature very easy for our operators. We record temperatures on a data sheet. This makes compliance with USEPA and the State of Kentucky for time and temperature a simple task." |
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"This is a view looking over the ThermoFeeder™ back into the operator control room." |
| "This view is outside our biosolids facility. In the center is
our 80 ton lime storage silo. To the right is a window that is our operator control room. To the far left you can see our second Serpentix conveyor, which takes the pasteurized product out to our covered storage pad. |
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| "This is my favorite view, our storage pad essentially empty. The short reversing conveyor allows us to load either one of two trucks. Generally, our storage pad is essentially empty as we deliver product everyday, weather permitting." |
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"Here are our two New Leader delivery trucks. The one in the background is headed to a farm site, while the one in the foreground is being loaded by the reversing belt conveyor. We have an enormous database for time and temperature as well as pH. This minimizes product storage and handling by taking the finished product right from the Pasteurization Vessel to the farmers' fields." |
| "Here is one of the reasons why we have a 2 1/2 year waiting list. This photograph was taken during the drought in the summer of 1999. To the left is tobacco and to the right is feed corn. The farmers that received our product that year had excellent yields despite drought-like conditions." |
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"If you would like to talk to me or any of my staff, such as Willie on the left or Charlene on the right, please feel free to call. |
"Or talk to Harold, regarding the Operation and Maintenance." |
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The Winchester Sun ran an article entitled, "WMU in a Real Sludge-Fest", which describes the past and present processes used in wastewater treatment in the Town of Winchester. To read the Sun's article, please click below:
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| "Historically, Clark County people lived close
to, and off the largess of the land. Each succeeding generation bonded itself to place and region, and interwove the history of their being with events and institutions. Clark County's history might well be a prototype of all rural American development and progress. It has ever had those individuals in its midst who stood out from the crowd and assumed roles of leadership." |
| Excerpted from "Clark County, Kentucky: A History" by
Thomas D. Clark, 1996. ~www.winchesterfirst.com |
