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This is the first in a series of articles by Don Audette exploring the charactertisics and challenges of wastewaterv treatment systems
By Don Audette Special to the Rappahannock News
This is a delicate matter.
Every day, water and really gross stuff disappears down a drain from your toilet, dishwasher, kitchen sink, shower, bathtub, automatic dishwasher, bathroom sink, garbage disposal, etc., vanishing as if by magic. It goes away, never to be seen again. Where it goes is called a wastewater treatment system, which treats the filthy mess and disperses it.
There are two kinds. The wastewater trade calls them “centralized” and “onsite/ decentralized” systems. The centralized ones are for cities, towns, densely populated counties, and major subdivisions. They involve large sewer pipes that carry wastewater far away from a home or business to a managed wastewater treatment plant where effluent (treated wastewater) is usually dispersed by discharging it into a river.
The other kind, the “onsite/ decentralized” systems, treat and disperse wastewater locally, right in your back yard, or, if you are part of a small clustered development, close by.
Take Clevenger’s Corner along Route 211 near Rappahannock County as an example of a centralized system. The managed wastewater treatment plant for this
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