PROTECTING OUR AIR AND WATER WITH FLEXIBLE MEMBRANE
LINERS, COVERS, AND FABRICATIONS

Waste Water Plant Covers

Municipal wastewater operations all need to control odors. Operations that serve large populations are often enormous, well funded, state-of-the-art facilities.  Raw wastewater is cleaned as it is pumped from one area to the next thru sophisticated cleansing, aeration, disinfection, and clarification equipment spread over acres on land.  In some cases, methane gas is captured under floating covers for use in powering the operation. The challenge for smaller communities is to accomplish the same work on a smaller scale with a much smaller budget.

The Village of New Lennox wanted to upgrade their wastewater treatment plant which is located near the central business district.  Home and business owners were complaining about odors, but were unable to come up with significant financing. Finding aluminum covers too costly, the water district decided to employ MPC to cover their settlement/evaporation tanks with a tough, UV resistant PetroGard VI membrane. This allowed the Village to economically convert one of their ponds to a simple but effective anaerobic digestion system, relying on controlled microbial digestion in place of evaporation and mechanical cleaning.