Keeping it Clean: North Liberty’s Water Pollution Control Facility

Since North Liberty’s Water Pollution Control Facility came online in 2008, it has produced a super-clean outflow that normal wastewater facilities cannot match. The facility, a Membrane Bio-Reactor plant, was the first of its kind in Iowa, and it produces an effluent, or outflow, that routinely exceeds drinking water standards for turbidity.

This fall, Drew Lammers, Operations Supervisor at North Liberty’s Water Pollution Control Facility, took us through the process of treating wastewater and explained how then MBR plant has turned the once muddy and turbid creek into an oxygen-rich habitat for a thriving fish community.