LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY The Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District’s (MSD’s) main treatment facility is the Morris Forman Water Quality Treatment Center (MFWQTC). This plant provides biosolids processing for all treatment facilities operated by MSD. MSD is committed to rehabilitating or replacing some of the existing biosolids processing facilities at the MFWQTC, which consist of sludge thickening, anaerobic digestion, solids dewatering, thermal drying, and marketing and distribution of the thermally dried pellets. This system uses rotary drum dryers to produce heat-dried biosolids from the sludge generated at 5 MSD Water Quality Treatment Centers. MSD is committed to upgrading their solids processing to sufficient capacity for the MFWQTC through the year 2040.
Gonzalez Companies was part of the team that developed a Project Definition Document (PDD), which represents an approximate 10% design for the replacement of the aging biosolids processing facilities. The 10% design document will be utilized by design-build entities to prepare bids. Specific components addressed in the PDD include new solids screening equipment, pre- and post-dewatering centrifuges, thermal hydrolysis pretreatment, combined heat and power (CHP) capabilities and digestor complex retrofits/improvements.
