Everything about The Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant totally explained
The
Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant (also known as Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant) run and operated by The
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is located on
Deer Island, one of the
Boston Harbor Islands in
Boston Harbor.
Deer Island is the second largest
sewage treatment plant in the United States. The plant is a key part of the program to protect Boston Harbor against pollution from sewer systems in eastern Massachusetts, mandated by a 1984 federal court ruling by Judge
Paul G. Garrity in a case brought under the
Clean Water Act.
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The plant removes human, household, business and industrial pollutants from wastewater that originates in homes and businesses in forty three greater Boston communities. It complies with all federal and state environmental standards and subject to the discharge permit issued for it by
EPA and
DEP. Its treated wastewater can safely be released into the marine environment. The plant uses primary and secondary treatment to remove 85% of pollution from the water. The resulting effluent is disinfected and then discharged through a 9.5-mile-long 24-foot-diameter outfall tunnel into the 100-foot deep waters of Massachusetts Bay.
Sludge removed from the waste is sent to an array of 150-foot-tall egg-shaped
sludge digesters, which are major harbor landmarks.
Methane from the digesters is captured and helps power the plant. Digested sludge is barged across the harbor to a plant in
Quincy, Massachusetts that converts it to fertilizer pellets.
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