Wastewater Treatment Plant Virtual Tour 

R.I.P Ryan, excellent tour.

His shift has ended, but his knowledge and legacy live on - with each of us here - forever. A true master of our craft. God only knows the countless number of Operators this video will inspire and educate in the decades to come. RIP, brother.

This is the best, most comprehensive, and most detailed tour of a wastewater treatment plant that I have ever seen anywhere. These are the men that make your civilization function. They are the reason you've never heard of anyone getting cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever. Day in, day out, ceaselessly, tirelessly, usually thanklessly. Ryan Giefer, the intelligent, handsome man giving this tour, died in a hunting accident after falling out of a tree stand a few days ago. Keep him and his family in your thoughts for a moment, and consider the countless more like him across this country whose jobs and lives you never hear about, but whose hard work keeps you constantly comfortable and safe in your own daily life. RIP, Ryan.

God bless the engineers, mechanics, and techs who work these plants. The unsung heros of all of modern civilization.

There's a lot more to it than the average person realizes. Thanks for all your hard work.

Thank you everyone for the kind words! I would like to dedicate this video to Ryan Giefer and his family. Ryan passed away in November of 2021. We are deeply saddened by this and we believe this video is a great way to honor his legacy.

I have watched a lot of video clips on wastewater treatment and this one is definitely the best-it is comprehensive (inside-the fence and outside-the fence operations), clear, and touches on all major components (including the role of lift stations) and processes. Many thanks for producing this!

Rip Ryan from a fellow operator out of NYS 🤝🏽 great video.. I was saddened to come across the rip comments, really set me back a bit.. was gonna congratulate you on how well you explained the process of your plant and went over the basics. Been in the field 8 years and love to watch videos of other plants and their processes from time to time.

I love how Ryan spoke about the challenges of wastewater treatment and how the plant seeks to continue improving its sustainability and the treatment process. Awesome tour!

I'd passed my licensure examination for Sanitary Engineer about one month ago and decided to take the path of Wastewater Engineering Field and this presentation inspired me and created a passion in me to enhance my skill and to explore wastewater engineering to become effective in this field. You guys showed me that I chose the right path for my career thank you for doing an excellent job in your work

This treatment plant tour was excellent! Thank you! Congratulations on all of your achievements and thank you for protecting our environment!

This man has an astonishing grasp of the technology he oversees! What a confident and detailed explanation of a hugely varying process. Bravo, and thanks!

This man cares about his job. Very good video sir.

Great video. Nice intro to the science of wastewater treatment. I was very struck by the conscientiousness of the people who run this facility. Civil servants indeed.

RIP Ryan Giefer, Wastewater Treatment Superintendent 20 Feb 1989 - 3 Nov 2021 You lived a short life but achieved and contributed big. You're an inspiration to many youngsters around the world.

Sorry for the loss of Ryan. He seemed like a true asset to your community and public works as a whole. Such a shame.

Truly fascinating engineering processes. Real heroes working tirelessly behind the scene.

Thanks for excellent tour of Wisconsin's treatment plant!

A great and informative plant tour from the start to finish of a wastewater treatment facility/process. Thanks a lot to Ryan and to his group.

Am grateful to the thought of producing this video, I have learned a lot and as an enthusiast in wastewater management I have gained a lot that I know is going to inspire my job, Lots of love from Kenya

Great presentation on all of the components of wastewater collection and treatment systems, including the resource recovery systems used to generate methane from the waste sludge. Good job! You are making a difference in our profession.

This was a great tour, and I am a chairman of a sewer authority in PA. Also waste water system of the year in PA for 2015. The description of flushable wet wipes was perfect. We called in the EPA and the PA DEP Outreach program and that helped to train our operators and Walt Higgins (EPA region 3) and Mark Neveil (DEP outreach) were instrumental in working with us in 2013 and 2014. When an award is given there are always so many people behind the work done to get the award.

Thank you for sharing this with us. Wow, this was very informative and interesting. Again, thank you so much and for all of your hard work that you do. We NEED you

The process of reforming the wastewater treatment system will be important for the future. Thank you so much, Your information is very useful 👍🙏😊

Very interesting and very complex. Thanks for sharing, the tour and info were great!

i have an interview for engineer post in my state sewage department. i studied your video and i would like to say thank you very much Wisconsin Rapids Wastewater Treatment Plant. i learn a lot just by your video alone. what a hard work you guys are put into this. and your SCADA system is way more advances that what i have ever worked with. love it and love your content. From Malaysia.

I’m sure I don’t have to repeat what everyone is saying about how excellent, and informative, this video is, I just want to say how sorry I am to hear of Ryan’s passing. It’s unfortunate. My thoughts with his family, at home, and at work. 😔

i took the 2 hour tour of the Deer Island treatment facility which handles Boston and several other communities, it was fascinating.

Love all these types of documentaries.

Im a sewage treatment plant operator here in Philippines for four years I wish I could work in your company to inovate my skills for being a waste water operator I love this job

Great video guys! I learned so much!! Thanks-you for taking the time and doing it!

Excellent video, very informative. The presenters were very knowledgeable and concise.

Very informative and one of the best detailed video about water treatment process.

Thank you. Excellent tour. Very interesting! Joe

This is excellent. Good job, brother. Don't question yourself and skip the "um". You have the knowledge.

Great tour and explanations, thanks! I love how much this facility helps the environment, look at those happy ducks sitting in the clean water.

This right here is gold. Thanks so much for sharing your daily day to day that we all take for granted. I’m glad that you guys also shared all of your awards. You guys deserve it and it shows how passionate you all are with your craft. Treatment stations across the country should use your processes as a standardized template throughout all facilities. I’m just amazed at the way this place is run; self sufficient in its energy needs, always cognitive on cost cutting and budgets. Even waste from the wastewater treatment plant is repurposed and reused! Superb job everyone; you all are doin gods work.

Very interesting. I enjoyed this virtual tour.

Thanks for sharing I enjoyed the tour

Nice video. Thank you for sharing. I learned a little bit more than what we are doing in our job. I am in the Instrumentation and Control of these STPs and Pumping stations.

Great job..many congratulations

Thanks for such a great informative video. Great work and well done on yours and the team achievements.

Great piece of documentary for effective virtual tour. Keep it up and it's helping most of our academics and our students who cannot be physically present

This is a fantastic walkthrough of how the treatment process works.

Excellent plant tour! Thanks for putting this together

excellent overview into wastewater treatment.

Thank you guys for a job well done. Also congratulations and keep up the fantastic work.

Excellent educational discussions very helpful ! Regards.

Nice plant, very well explained, cheers from California

Man it is amazing reading and learning about this in class and then watching it in real life.

Great video, I'm starting to enter the industry and you are very knowledgeable and explain things very well. Running these plants is an awesome responsibility. I'm excited to join the industry

What a great team diligently focusing on improvements. Plenty of room for improvement here in the UK.

Well done, guys.Thanks a lot!

Thank you for your scientific informations sir. I usually yearn to learn from expert like you. May God bless you.

Thanks a ton for creating and sharing this insightful video. I can see my career in this video.

nice illustration, beneficials to many ones , Cheers

excellent treatment plant, good job!

I learned something and found it very interesting. Good Job!

that was an excellent tour!

Really liked this presentation. Things like this should be incorporated into educational programs in all high schools. Fundamental. Also liked the presentation in another program : "Zurich Werdhoelzli: How does a sewage treatment plant work?" The general population has no understanding and thus no appreciation of the multiplicity of skills involved to prove the quality of life benefits we enjoy.

This SCADA system is so nice. And a very well run plant.

Such a nice informative video, thank you so much!

I'm M1 students in Japan. My research is to make new WWTP. This video is very interesting! Thank you.

excellent tour

Thanks for Excellent presentation with easily understandable English. I have indegenised Clarifier Central Drive System with Spiral Bevel Gears and lesser HP motors, 35 years before compared to Dorr Oliver or Eimco in India.

thank for your neat explanation

I've learned a lot from this, thank you very much!

Very interesting video, thank you

This is amazing.

It's really helpful sir please make such more interesting videos

Great jobs

This was very interesting. Very informative. Do you ever see the possbility of being able to process waste down to the point of being potable water at the end point?? What's the lowest water intake level you have ever been at?? What's the highest?? What are the biggest fluctuations in waste intake and quality that you see durring the year???

Thank you!

The electrical room was funny. Old sparky over there like "yeah you can film in my room....if Im there to supervise" I could just see him thinking "dont Fing touch that!"

Awesome tour and great explanation of the treatment process. It really helped out a lot to have you walk us through each step as you are there. I appreciate it!

Great video! We build WWTPs in region of Southeast Europe but here we prefer SBR technology, just because a lack of space. Your plant is on beautiful, but I suppose placed on a square mile at least. Keep doing good job!

I do as the algorithm guides

Thanks for sharing

wonderfull content very educative.

Awesome video very informative. I only have one question. What do you do about the biters? I use tanks and artillery but I didn't see any of that. (Factorio, 🤣)

Thank you for this.. Hope to work with you someday.

I work at a sbr in ohio that dumps directly into lake erie. I have a class q operators liscence. I love it

Thank you for the video above. I came across a ceramic separator and was wondering wherein the system does it fit in?

Thank you for an interesting presentation. Nice facility. Well run. Nicely presented. Everybody should have a basic understanding of wastewater treatment. You don't mention the odor, but I imagine that there is an aroma. A flow chart might be nice. What percentage of your flow is water versus solids and organic materials? A look at a lift station would be nice. You might also describe the volume between the flow from sanitary and stormwater infiltration. I am sorry for your loss but appreciate your accomplishments. Some of us know and appreciate what people like you do!

This plant is much more modern than the one where I worked back in the early 90s. Are odors a problem? Headworks can get pretty rank. So, too, can the sludge belt. Do you have ways of mitigating foul smells that might otherwise plague surrounding neighborhoods?

Very good sir. Iam also work the West water treatment plant in Saudi Arabia dhahran Aramco.

Pre-1940 almost every city dumped the sewage right into the rivers. My home town, I worked for the town, and we still had half the city dumping straight into the river till 2002. Today, there is still about 20% of the cities houses dump into the river

This tour is decent for people like me (not in the field, but majors in chem & biology, just interested) and I understand GPM, H2S, floc, and other jargon. Some people might not follow the use of jargon well.

do you cover those water treatment holes during storms ,snow,...etc???

Great.

very informative this is what will save and conserve our already polluted world thanks again

Love the wii sports music

I did not know that, I’m going to check with my city. Because I have my sub pump underneath my house connected to my sewer line right there next to it with a one way check valve to keep it from possibly back flowing from the sewer line. If I can’t I did not know that. I have roughly 25ftX80ft by 3 feet deep, and sometimes in the winter time underneath my house gets so deep that it’s almost to the trusses on the floor. Instead of digging a long trench to my street and ripping up the sidewalk I personally thought it be easier and faster to connect it to the sewer line underneath my house.

Am I the only one that noticed?? At 27:00 - top of the screen, on the tan horizontal pipe labeled “SUCTION DIG 1”… the N in SUCTION is backward. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Have you seen any fissures form around the pump hole?

masterly

I like it

@ 28:40 he's talking about a HUGE fart running the whole system.. that's awesome 😆💨💨💨

how you manage odour in the plant? do you pass the gas through a bio filter?

I’m curious how much easier it would be to process sewage from a community that primarily uses bidets over large amounts of toilet paper.