Superintendent
Charlton Brown
3626 London West Road
PH:(419)347-7453
FX:(419)347-8850
e-mail: cbrown@shelbyohio.org
Shelby’s Waste Water Treatment Plant is located on London West Rd. north of the city.
904,051,000 gallons were treated in 2011. All waste is decomposed biologically. The only chemicals added are chlorine to kill disease-causing bacteria and sodium bisulfite to remove the chlorine before the final effluent from the plant is discharged. The wastewater is monitored continuously for a variety of parameters to ensure that no stream degradation will occur.
Superintendent Charlton Brown and 4 other operators work daily to keep your streams and rivers clean and to maintain an EPA-certified waste water treatment plant.
Click here for the history of the Shelby Wastewater Treatment System compiled by Charlton Brown in 2010.
2011 ANNUAL FACTS
2,500,000 gallons treated per day
75,400,000 gallons treated per month
904,051,000 gallons treated per year
Leachate collected: 5,467,084 gallons per year
Land applied sludge (bio-solids) 1,232,000 gallons.
Annual Rainfall 60.12 inches
The dissolved oxygen to the Blackfork River averaged 9.9 mg/l compared to the Blackfork River's average of 9.1 mg/l. The City of Shelby's Wastewater Treatment Plant contributes higher oxygen content then the Blackfork River's own environment.