Hydraulic Capacity Reviewed
On July 27, 1989 the DEP issued a consent order. They had determined that the ridge and furrow beds were not capable of taking the original designed flow of 200,000 gallons per day, and limited the discharge of wastewater in the watershed of Bantam River to an average daily flow of 100,000 gallons. The consent order outlined a number of conditions including water quality monitoring, an investigation of the hydraulic capacity of our ridge and furrow filter beds, and the design and installation of a distribution system that would uniformly distribute effluent from the treatment plant to our ridge and furrow filter beds. The district agreed to the consent order without the right of appeal.