Waste Water Treatment
History of Wastewater treatment Plant
The Treatment plant was built in the late 1920’s. There are records
that date back to 1929. We are the seventh oldest treatment plant in
Indiana. The Original plant by today’s standard was pretty crude but
in its day it was state of the art at the time. The Sewage Works as
a whole has had three major expansions over time. The first was in
1956. The plant was upgraded and sewers were extended into several
areas around town. The next was in 1968 again the plant was expanded
and the Del-Monte lagoons were built. In the 1968 work more sewers
were installed through out the city. There was also a major lift
station installed at the end of Kyger Street to service the
industrial park. The main sewer that runs west on State Road 28 was
installed. The last expansion was 1978. With this came the present
treatment plant. Lift stations were added in the Maish Road area and
a lift station was placed at the end of Alhambra Avenue. The new
main sewer interceptor running through town was installed in the
bank of Prairie creek.
The Operation of the plant is non-stop. We are a 24 hour, 7 day a
week, 365 day a year operation. All of the employees are considered
maintenance operators. This allows that all employees can perform
any and all tasks that are presented to them. We maintain and work
on all of the equipment in house. The only that that is farmed out
is a motor repair. All operators are required to be able to run all
daily lab tests. We have a complete operational lab. We monitor all
of the industrial facilities in Frankfort. We are mandated by the
State to operate and maintain a pretreatment program. We land apply
all of the Bio-Solids removed from the treatment process. Last year
we disposed of 1.6 million pounds of Bio-solids.
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