Our Bay: Blue Plains: Bay's biggest polluter

Massive sewage plant in line for costly upgrades

By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer

Published 07/04/09

WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the end of a peninsula, hemmed in by Bolling Air Force Base, the Potomac River and a highway, sits the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Pamela Wood — The Capital Instrument technician Lawrence Jackson and Salil Kharkar, manager of process engineering, discuss water quality readings just before treated wastewater is released into the Potomac River from the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant. The plant spreads across 150 acres in Southeast Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. It is the largest single source of nitrogen pollution to the Chesapeake Bay.

The plant's operators boast that it's the largest advanced sewage-treatment plant in the world.

But it's also the Chesapeake Bay's single largest source of nitrogen, the nutrient that drives harmful algae blooms that contribute to the infamous, oxygen-deprived "dead zones" each summer.

At meeting after meeting, leaders of the bay-restoration movement bring up Blue Plains - noting that when the plant is upgraded, it will cause a...

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