CANTON, ILLINOIS Photo tour by Assistant Superintendent Joe Carrathures. Plant phone number 309-647-1391
The City of Canton, Illinois is located approximately 30 miles Southwest of Peoria and has a population of 14,000. We also process waste water from the local state correctional facility that has approximately 2,000 inmates.
Our plant is designed to handle an average flow of 3.4 MGD and we are currently handling an average flow of 2.5 MGD.
By the way, we have the Space Shuttle as part of our city logo as Canton is the proud home of Astronaut Steve Nagel.
In the foreground is our Aerobic Digestor. Monday through Friday, we pump approximately 50,000 gallons to our Sludge Holding tank. To the left of this photo (not shown), is our primary rectangular clarifiers. We pump 5,000 to 10,000 gallons of primary sludge per day to our Anaerobic Digestor.
Monday through Friday we make three trips to the Water Plant Lime Sludge Lagoon and bring 12,000 gallons of lime sludge (6-8% solids) back to our plant. This sludge goes into our sludge holding tank.
In the background and to the right is our Anaerobic Digestor. To the left is our "converted" Sludge Holding Tank. It was an Anaerobic Digestor with a floating cover.
We added a Vaughn Chopper Pump (800-1000 gpm) to the cover of our Sludge Holding Tank. Boy does this pump make our life a lot easier. Before we put this in, we used an existing pump (200 gpm) which provided inadequate mixing. We would be pumping 1% solids to our press and 30 minutes later we would see 5% solids. What a headache. Now we get great mixing and our feed solids runs about 2.5% all the time.
This is our Pasteurization Facility. We have an Ashbrook Klam Press and a RDP Technologies, Inc. Pasteurization System (Small Community System). Our silo stores over 40 tons of high calcium quicklime.
We have a 2.0 Meter Belt Filter Press that consistently produces 33% dry solids. The Serpentix Conveyor moves the material to the ThermoBlender.
This is our Twin 12" diameter ThermoBlender that discharges into our Pasteurization Vessel.
We have two (2) ways of documenting our compliance with "Time and Temperature." Our system operates as a Class A facility under the Alternate 1, Time and Temperature Requirements for solids that are greater than 7%. Our insulated Pasteurization Vessel provides us with 30 minutes of retention time. At 30 minutes of retention we need to maintain a minimum temperature of 158(F. We have daily handwritten log sheets where we log in the inlet and discharge temperatures every hour. We also have this backed up with a circular recording chart that produces a continuous read out for both our inlet and discharge temperatures.
Our final product is well mixed and is granular. We average about 45% dry solids on the final product and use our old sand drying beds for storage. Note how light in color the product becomes after several days of storage (below).
We figured we needed a truck to spread for farmers so we bought a Gehl "Side Slinger" truck that works well.
This is an alfalfa field where we applied the Class A BioSolids. We are located in an old strip mining area so this field had a low pH to begin with. The farmer was very pleased with the results as this field is now productive.
This is me in our sweet corn field. We had a very dry summer (1997) and this photograph was taken on our 45th day without rain. Our farmer told us the BioSolids really helped save the corn despite our near drought conditions.
I can answer any questions you might have so contact me at 309-647-1391.
