Wastewater Treatment
EBMUD's efforts to guard the San Francisco Bay begin with meeting or surpassing regulatory standards for wastewater treatment, and by partnering with residents and businesses to help them keep contaminants out of sewers and ultimately the Bay. EBMUD practices a recycling ethic by recycling wastewater for landscape and commercial uses, by creating energy out of byproducts of the treatment process, and beneficially reusing the solids removed during treatment.
Treatment Process
Wastewater from East Bay communities flows to EBMUD's wastewater treatment plant in Oakland near the entrance of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. See the online tour below to get a better sense of how the treatment process works. EBMUD provides secondary treatment for a maximum flow of 168 million gallons per day (MGD). Primary treatment can be provided up to 320 MGD. Storage basins provide plant capacity for a short-term hydraulic peak of 415 MGD. The average annual flow is currently 75 MGD.
Biosolids Treatment
The solids that are removed, or biosolids, undergo a separate treatment process. See the Biosolids Program page for more information.
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