List of largest wastewater treatment plants
The largest wastewater treatment plants can be defined in several ways.
The largest in term of capacity, both during dry and wet-weathers, is the Jean-R.-Marcotte Wastewater Treatment Plant in Montreal. With full secondary treatment of effluents it would be the Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant of Boston.
In terms of area occupied it is by far Melbourne's Western Treatment Plant.
| Plant name | City | Country | Opening
Year |
Dry-weather
capacity (m³) |
Wet-weather
capacity (m³) |
Area
(km²) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-R.-Marcotte Wastewater Treatment Plant[1] | Montreal |  Canada
|
1984 | 2 780 000 | 7 600 000 | 0.67 | No secondary treatment yet. |
| Detroit Wastewater Treatment Plant[2] | Detroit |  USA
|
1940 | 2 460 000 | 6 435 000 | 0.53 | Wet-weather secondary treatment capacity limited to 3 520 000 m³/day. |
| Stickney Water Reclamation Plant[3] | Chicago | USA
|
1930 | 2 665 000[4] | 5 300 000 | 2.3 | |
| Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant | Boston | USA
|
1968 | 1 438 000 | 4 542 000 | 0.6[5] | Full secondary treatment since 1995. |
| Autotonilco de Tula Plant[6] | Mexico City |  Mexico
|
2015 | 2 000 000 | 3 000 000 | ||
| Hyperion Sewage Treatment Plant[7] | Los Angeles | USA
|
1925 | 1 041 000 | 3 000 000 | 0.81 | Wet-weather secondary treatment (since 1950) capacity limited to 1 821 000 m³/day. |
| Seine Aval Wastewater Treatment Plant[8] | Paris |  France
|
1940 | 1 460 000 | 2 900 000 | 8 | |
| Shanghai Zhuyan I Wastewater Treatment Plant[9] | Shanghai |  China
|
2004 | 1 700 000 | |||
| Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment[10] | Hong Kong | China
|
2001 | 2 765 000[11] | |||
| Bailonggang Wastewater Treatment Plant | Shanghai | China
|
1999 | 2 000 000 | |||
| Gabal el Asfar Wastewater Treatment Plant | Cairo |  Egypt
|
1 700 000 | 2 500 000[12] | |||
| Beckton Sewage Treatment Works | London |  UK
|
1864 | 2 330 000 | 1 | ||
| Morigasaki Water Reclamation Center[13] | Tokyo |  Japan
|
1966 | 1 540 000 | 0.41 | ||
| Western Treatment Plant | Melbourne |  Australia
|
1897 | 485 000 | 110[14] |
Wastewater treatment capacities are expressed in cubic meters per day. The area occupied by the plants are in square kilometers.
See also
References
- ^ "La Station d'épuration Jean-R. Marcotte". ville.montreal.qc.ca (in French). Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Detroit WWTP NPDES Fact Sheet". www.michigan.gov. State of Michigan. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ Tarantola, Andrew (2011-09-30). "Chicago's Stickney Wastewater Treatment Plant Is the Crappiest Place on Earth". gizmodo.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ "Water Reclamation Plants". www.mwrd.org. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ Shirley, Jolene S. "Boston Harbor Pipe Dreams Come True! USGS Visits the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant and a Cleaner Harbor". soundwaves.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
- ^ "Atotonilco Wastewater Treatment Project". Water Technology. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant". www.lacitysan.org. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ Service public de l'assainissement francilien (2013). "Usine d'épuration Seine aval" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Grundfos is part of the world's second largest wastewater treatment plant | Grundfos". www.grundfos.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ "Treating Hong Kong's wastewater". www.abb.ca. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works, Hong Kong". www.biwater.com. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "ACCIONA awarded contract for Africa's largest WWTP". www.acciona.com. 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2016-08-05.
- ^ Bureau of Sewerage Tokyo Metropolitan. "Morigasaki Water Reclamation Center" (PDF). www.asianhumannet.org. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Western Treatment Plant - Melbourne Water". www.melbournewater.com.au. Retrieved 2017-01-03.