
By Erik Larsen
The Brush Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (BCWTP) is located about half an hour north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Cranberry Township. The plant uses physical, chemical, biological and membrane filtration processes to treat an average of 3.4 million gallons of wastewater daily. The wastewater that is collected from homes, businesses, and industries, is treated and the effluent is discharged into nearby Brush Creek and is also used in the spring and summer months to irrigate Cranberry’s Highland Golf Course. It takes a team of 11 people to run the plant to ensure that the effluent is in compliance with the state’s health and safety standards.
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