When FEMA determined that the Foster City levee system did not meet minimum requirements for flood protection, this $72-million improvement project moved forward with several goals.
Back in 2013, the California Coastal Commission denied the permit for Morro Bay’s then 60-year-old wastewater treatment plant, directing the city to relocate the facility to a more inland area consistent with the Coastal Act policies.
Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s Atlantic Treatment Plant, which has a permitted design capacity of 54 million gallons per day, operates as a high-rate activated sludge plant that is able to achieve biological oxygen demand and total suspended solids removal.