The further treatment of sewage effluent by biological methods following sedimentation.
sewage dumped in certain ‘sensitive’ areas of the sea would be given secondary treatment
as modifier a secondary-treatment stage comprising aerobic biological oxidation and final settlement
Example sentencesExamples
- The next stage is secondary treatment, which is designed to remove soluble organics from the wastewater.
- This waiver allows for less than full secondary treatment of the sewage being discharged into the ocean off Huntington Beach.
- Ecosystem damage and fish toxicity occurred downstream from mills that did not use chlorine, even in advanced mills with secondary treatment processes.
- Do most sewerage treatment plants only use secondary treatment?
- Most treatment plants also have secondary treatment, whereby sewage is stirred and oxygen is blown in to help beneficial bacteria breed and eat up the ‘solids.’