I had never been to a waste water plant before I got to Avondale. Let's just say it wouldn't be my choice destination in the middle of the summer. But, I wanted to visit all the operations of the department within the first month of employment. So, I joined the City Manager and some of the Council Members and braved the smell. Actually, it wasn't too bad.
A couple of year's ago, Avondale's Council approved an expansion of their plant. What I got to see was the older infrastructure at the entrance of the facility which is where most of the smell was coming from but that would be eliminated after the newer buildings were completed.
We walked around the project site while the contractor pointed out where the new buildings would be located. At that point, there was just a lot of graded areas, big ditches with installation of piping, steel framework for pouring of concrete, etc. Basically, they were in the beginning stages of construction with a lot of prepping going on.
However, my favorite part of the tour dealt with the discovery of bacteria utilized to clean the water. I never knew that that is what we used to get rid of the poop (for lack of a better word). I hate to admit it but I always wondered where it went after flushing the toilet and now I know.
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