Lakepointe Environmental Group services

Our client base consists of knowledgeable and savvy business people who want to provide their operation with improved performance that will enable them  to run their operation with more efficiency, improved water quality, and also providing them a positive return on their investment in our product and services. Some of the clients we service are in municipal and private wastewater treatment operations, snack foods, food production, citrus processing, and the pulp and paper industry.

I am told that when design engineers begin their projections on building a wastewater treatment plant. They calculate the number of expected pounds of influent BOD so that they can convert that BOD number to pounds of sludge in order to design the sludge storage and handling for the new plant. To keep this as simple as possible, and its not that complicated, I am going to figure the anticipated sludge numbers for a one million gallon per day average flow plant, with an influent BOD of 225 mg/l.   1.0 X 225 X 8.34 = 1876.5 pounds of influent BOD, which should and usually produces between 1688.85 and 1876.5 pounds of sludge.  This "yield" is showing a ONE to ONE (1876.5 to 1876.5) or ONE to .9 ratio (1876.5 to 1688.85) of influent BOD to sludge.