Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex
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Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex
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Infrastructure Clarifier Installation, December 2022
New clarifier and sludge thickener equipment and systems were installed at the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex as part of water treatment plant upgrades intended to increase the influent water residence time and metals precipitation and facilitate sludge handling and pressing.
Other major upgrades have included installing a new multimedia filtration system, new cartridge filters, new pumps/plumbing, and a new polymer feed system.
Full plant upgrades were brought online in December 2022, and the optimized WTP was commissioned and fully operational by December 2023. The upgrades were projected to increase water treatment plant capacity from about 130 to 180+ gallons per minute and reduce system operation and maintenance requirements and costs.
