California Winery Upgrades Its Wastewater System

In arid California wine country, a vineyard sought to update its wastewater treatment process and use former dispersal ponds to irrigate valuable grapes.

Aug 07, 2014 | by David Steinkraus |

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California Winery Upgrades Its Wastewater System — The finished installation of secondary treatment equipment at Jordan Vineyard & Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. The rectangular green lids of the four Orenco Systems AdvanTex AX-100 units are at right. To their left are the four circular lids of the 8,000-gallon tank that doses the AdvanTex pods and a nearby drip field. The tall box with the wooden backboard holds an Orenco control panel, while the low green box in the right background contains a fan that provides extra oxygen to the AdvanTex p

California Winery Upgrades Its Wastewater System — These two 10,000-gallon tanks from Fiber Enterprises of Redwood City, Calif., were installed to perform primary treatment and flow equalization for the Jordan Vineyard wastewater system in Healdsburg, Calif.

California Winery Upgrades Its Wastewater System — Workers from George Young and Sons Construction set a float with Orenco switches into the 4,000-gallon Fiber Enterprises tank that is part of the secondary treatment system at Jordan Vineyard & Winery in Healdsburg, Calif.

California Winery Upgrades Its Wastewater System — Jeff Julian sets up the Orenco panel at Jordan Vineyard & Winery. The process was more complicated than usual because there are two panels. One controls an equalization system, and the other, about 2,500 feet away, controls the Orenco AdvanTex treatment system and Geoflow drip dispersal system. The two are linked with a phone line so a problem at the secondary treatment site causes the AdvanTex panel to tell the equalization panel to stop sending water through the system. The phone line als

California Winery Upgrades Its Wastewater System — This vintage 1976 package plant was the old domestic wastewater treatment system at Jordan Vineyard & Winery in Healdsburg, Calif. It has now been replaced with best-available technology that provides cleaner effluent and allows the business to use winery process wastewater for irrigation.

Jordan Advantex Pods

Jordan Equalization Tanks

Jordan Float Installation

Jordan Orenco Panel

Jordan Package Plant

It was a relatively straightforward job, but the land posed challenges. Jordan Vineyard & Winery in Sonoma County, Calif., wanted to redo its wastewater system. Since 1976 the business had operated a combined domestic and process wastewater system, and now it needed an upgrade. The cause was two-part. One part was the age of its original package plant. The other part was the advantage of water reuse.The package plant was simply at the end of its life, illustrated by the rust streaks on its exterior. “I was in a meeting with the county regulators one day, and the facilities manager

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