摘要 |
A wastewater treatment system includes independent wastewater treatment facilities. Each of the facilities has wastewater treatment subsystems and is monitored by a central monitoring location. Wastewater collection subsystems hold wastewater to be treated. Monitoring subsystems measure wastewater process parameters. Control devices receive control commands and, dependent upon the command received, alter parameters of the wastewater treatment subsystems. A communication device connects the wastewater treatment subsystems and the control devices and sends information corresponding to the wastewater process parameters measured by the monitors, receives control messages corresponding to the control commands, and transmits control commands the control devices to alter wastewater process parameters. The central monitor manages the watershed by receiving information, evaluating changes to be made, sending the control messages, and coordinating the monitoring of the independent wastewater treatment facilities by allowing the independent wastewater treatment facilities to at least one of trade, sell, and exchange excess effluent capacity. |