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Facility Name: Burlington Main    
Matthew Dow, Chief Operator    
Burlington    
Main wastewater treatment facility    
03/31/2017    
04/01/2017    
04:00 pm to 03:40 pm    
   
Discharged treated and partly disinfected effluent    
>1,000,000 gallons    
High Flows    
   
WWTF outfall    
Operators changed processes reducing the hydraulic flow and increased the chemical feed.    
Lake Champlain    
Megan Moir, Assistant DPW Director - Water Resources    
   
   
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The rain and snow from Friday and Saturday raised the flows at the plant to a level where the hydraulic load pushed solids out of the process reducing the ability to fully disinfect the effluent. This resulted in an E.coli of 800 col/100mls    
   
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