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Alexandria, VA built a dual-purpose nutrient management facility

Alexandria, VA dual-purpose nutrient management facility

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AlexRenew, the city's public wastewater utility, built a nutrient management facility that improves local water quality and provides green space an essential community asset. This space includes an athletic field, the restoration of a brownfield, and new vegetation.

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Alexandria, VA

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State-of-the-Art Nitrogen Upgrade Program | AlexRenew

Over the past ten years, AlexRenew has made significant enhancements to its treatment process to meet new, stricter nitrogen removal standards. Through the State-of-the-Art Nitrogen Upgrade Program (SANUP), AlexRenew has been helping to improve the overall quality of Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay watershed. 

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The project received an Envision Platinum Rating from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. This 18-million-gallon facility helps balance the amount of ammonia-nitrogen that goes into AlexRenew’s biological reactor basins. Some key features include a regulation-size athletic field located on top of the process tanks, connections to bike and pedestrian paths, restoration of a brownfield, and new vegetation where there had been 143,000 square feet of asphalt.

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