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After disinfection, the water is out into a river, back into the natural water cycle. In our lab, we just poured the water down the drain to conclude our lab.

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This involves the use of chemicals like chlorine or ozone gas to kill tiny living organisms in water. It is added to the water in a disinfection tank. To replicate this step, we used 2 teaspoons of household bleach and stirred it with a clean teaspoon in our disinfection bottle. Our water compared to the control water and mostly likely compared to actual water that undergoes disinfection was a lot more brown and dirty-looking. The bleach did not work well due to an error earlier in our lab.

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The tiny organisms that feed on the nutrients in the bioreactors and some of the germs from human wastes naturally cluster together and form heavy clumps. In large tanks, the water slows down and the clumps of tiny organisms sink to the bottom forming a brown sludge layer, known as secondary sludge. This leaves a clear layer of water on top which is sent for disinfection and sludge on the bottom which is removed and used as fertilizer. In our lab, we let our mixture sit for 1 minute and all the sludge sank to the bottom and created brown water all through. In our lab, we did not have clean water like we were suppose to.

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This process uses a special mixture of tiny organisms to feed on the dissolved nutrients in the wastewater. This occurs in large tanks called bioreactors. Dissolved nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous are removed. In our lab, we added a mixture of fine dry sand and ENO’s into the bioreactor bottle. This represents the special organisms used to remove the dissolved nutrients from the water. To represent the nitrifying bacteria, we used dissolved sugars.

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Wastewater flows very slowly in large tanks. This allows the fine solids and some germs to settle to the bottom of the tank forming a thick layer of sludge. Lighter substances like oils float to the surface. The oils are scraped off the surface and buried in a landfill and the sludge is removed from the bottom of the tank. In our lab, we let the mixture stand flat for 1 minute. The oil and leaves floating on the surface was removed by using a teaspoon and cotton wool. By wrapping a small netting around the cotton wool and teaspoon, we were about to replicate a scraper.

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After passing through the metal bars, the grit is removed in the grit chamber. Here, the water slows down slightly and allows the heavy grit to sink to the bottom. In our lab, we stirred the wastewater mixture quickly and observed what was collecting in the bottom of the bottle which was the grit. Using our finger, we filtered out the water from the grit collecting at the bottom

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When wastewater first arrives at treatment works, it passes through metal bar screens. These screens trap large objects while allowing the rest of the wastewater to pass through. In our lab, we used a netting to substitute for metal bars and the large objects that were trapped were dirt, tea bags, and leaves. The objects caught are normally removed and buried in a landfill, however, in our lab it was taken to a container in the front of the room.

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Wastewater is dirty, used water that is collected in a network of pipes called sewers, that carry it to wastewater treatment works. Wastewater can include large objects, grit, oils, fine solids, tiny organisms including germs, and dissolved nutrients. In our lab we substituted these objects by using warm water, rooibos tea leaves and crushed leaves, cut up teabags, small stones, cooking oil, and sugar.