Welcome to the Blue Plains Virtual Overview -- an interactive, user friendly, comprehensive and integrated multimedia overview of DCWASA's Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (AWTP).

Rendering of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant with several egg-shaped digesters as they might look once completed.

Wastewater is collected by the District of Columbia sewer system and from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs and is delivered to the Blue Plains AWTP.  The Blue Plains AWTP is the largest advanced wastewater treatment facility of its type in the world.  This overview will leave you with an understanding of the basic processes that happens at the Blue Plains AWTP and serve to provide a unique Blue Plains experience.

Navigation Help

This virtual overview takes you, step by step, through the whole wastewater treatment process.  These steps, covering both the liquids and solids sides of the wastewater treatment process, are marked on an overhead shot of the Blue Plains AWTP to help make this virtual overview easy to follow.  Clicking on a step will give you a brief description of that step, as well as, a set of thumbnails related to it.  Clicking on a thumbnail will give you a better view of the image and more information.

Technical Requirements

This presentation requires the Macromedia Flash 5 plugin for your internet browser.  If you do not already have the Flash 5 plugin, please go to the Macromedia website to download it.

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