New Sanitation Plant Produces Cleaner Tigris

LSA ANACONDA, Iraq -- Thanks to a new wastewater treatment plant built and opened here last month, the Army is now helping create cleaner water for the people of Iraq.

The plant, which processes 1.6 million gallons of wastewater per day, will be used in conjunction with an older treatment plant on LSA Anaconda that processes 1.1 million gallons, said Lt. Col. Chuck F. Blaschke III, an engineer for the 35th Area Support Group.

Blaschke, a National Guard Soldier from Lee’s Summit, Mo., said the plant was built so that excess wastewater did not need to be sent outside of LSA Anaconda to be processed, and to help the environment in Iraq.

Now, all the wastewater that is produced on Anaconda can be treated here, Blaschke said.

The plant, which took more than 500 days to construct and cost approximately $5.6 million, is not only providing a more efficient and effective treatment facility, but also creating cleaner water for Iraq.

“We are pumping cleaner water into the (Tigris) canal than we are taking out,” Blaschke said.

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