This section of Frequently Asked Questions deals with Fairborn water reclamation center questions. The Fairborn Water Reclamation Center is a City owned and operated production facility that uses the City's contaminated water as a raw material and produces environmentally acceptable water to return to the Mad River and N-Viro Soil, a top soil like material to return nutrients to our soil and to improve its texture and structure. The amount of water that comes into the Center varies on a daily basis. It ranges from 3 million gallons per day when the weather is dry up to 12 million gallons per day when the weather is rainy. Each year this amounts to enough reclaimed water to create a lake one mile in diameter and eight feet deep.
Nature already has a process to deal with contamination.
In forests and bodies of water, animal wastes as well as dead plants and animals are broken down into basic substances by the bacteria naturally present in soil and water. These basic substances ultimately re-enter the food chain as nutrients for plants. Unfortunately Nature can't handle the amount of contamination our society puts in the water it borrows from the environment. Therefore, the Water Reclamation Center uses the bacteria provided by Nature on a massive scale and accelerates the process to preserve our water quality. To do this the contaminated water coming into the Center is mixed with a large volume of these naturally occurring bacteria.