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Facility Name: Burlington Main    
Matthew Dow, Wastewater Facilities Manager    
City of Burlington    
Main WWTF    
06/18/2022    
06/18/2022    
08:40 pm to 10:25 pm    
   
Discharged treated and partly disinfected effluent    
Approximately 400,000    
Mechanical Failure    
   
WWTF outfall    
Staff responded to the alarm and increased the disinfection dosage and monitored through the night. Staff are still looking into the cause of the RAS pump issues at the time of this post.    
Lake Champlain    
Matthew Dow, Wastewater Facilities Manager    
   
   
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A suspected issue with an RAS pump cause some minor solids loss, leading to the disinfection system not putting out enough sodium hypochlorite to adequately disinfect the treated effluent.    
   
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