Water Treatment - You Are Here - Forest Park, Orbost, Vic
S 37° 42.519 E 148° 27.146
55H E 628026 N 5825517
The information sign for Water Treatment, is 'Titled': "Flushing the Toilet Fertilises the Trees", and shows where you are in Forest Park, Orbost.
Waymark Code: WMWR8K
Location: Victoria, Australia
Date Posted: 10/05/2017
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This "You Are Here" arrow indicator is shown on an Information Sign in Forest Park, as part of the 'Snowy River' series, by Waterwatch East Gippsland.
Part of the text narration is:
"You are looking at the Orbost Waste Water Pumping Station. We all produce a lot of waste water. In many areas this sewage is disposed of out to sea. In this community, it is pumped to Newmerella in the westward hills for recycling by irrigation.
To the side: "The sewage is delivered from Orbost and Marlo to two Primary Treatment Lagoons (P).
"This primary treatment mixes oxygen into the water with two floating aerators. This stops it smelling and helps the solids dissolve. The settled solids are then eaten on the floor of the lagoon by anaerobic bacteria (which do not need oxygen to survive.)
"Secondary treatment occurs in two extra overflow lagoons (S) before the effluent overflows to a winter storage lagoon (W) for further treatment and storage until the irrigation season.
"In summer the nutrient rich water is used to irrigate pasture for grazing and a 30 hectare eucalypt plantation.
"All the waste water is contained on site. Bird life is counted on the lagoons and regular water samples are tested to indicate water quality."
[The Orbost Waste Water Treatment Plant at Newmerella covers 220 hectares]
Visited: [0200, Friday, 13 May, 2016] 1133, Saturday, 14 May, 2016
Location Name: Forest Park - Water Treatment
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