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Spring 2009
Cuatro Communidades
The Cuatro Communidades design is the smallest design for the water treatment plant completed by the AguaClara Team. Single width sedimentation tanks were used for the design, and were made to be shallower than previous designs. This The Quatro Comunidades plant is serving 4 communities: Los Bayos, Rio Frio, Las Jaguas, and Aldea Bonito. By design, the plant is relatively smaller - the plant flow rate is 100.4 gal/min. However, this plant will be the first plant to include the sedimentation tank slopes (a.k.a. inlet triangular manifold), an and exit channel, and a hopper hoper for the floc blanket. Given the specific energy dissipation rate, velocities for the entrance channel, connections to the manifolds, and manifolds, are all constrained to not break up flocs and minimize the floc sedimentation. Single width sedimentation tanks were used for the design, and were made to be shallower than previous ones.
Details of the design can be found below.
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