Water and Wastewater Terms Beginning B

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burping

A term used to describe what happens when billowing solids are swept by the water up and out over the effluent weirs in the discharged effluent. Billowing solids result when the settling tank sludge blanket becomes too deep (occupies too much volume in the bottom of the tank).