USAF Mobility Program Wastewater Treatment System

Abstract : The U. S. Air Force Bare Base Mobility Program involves a highly mobile force of 1000 to 6000 men who can be moved any place in the world on a very short notice. The support systems for this force include a wastewater treatment system which can treat wastewaters to the required degree prior to discharge to the environment. The wastewaters which are generated at a bare base include photographic, aircraft and vehicle washrack, human, shower and lavatory, hospital, dining room, kitchen and laundry wastewaters. A waste treatment system which involves (1) separate collection and incineration of human waste, and (2) treatment of all wastewaters except concentrated photographic wastes in a system which includes chemical clarification, flotation, filtration, activated carbon adsorption and chlorination is recommended. The sludge, concentrated photographic waste and the skimmings from the aircraft and vehicle washrack wastes are incinerated and the ash from the incinerator is disposed of on land.