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A clarifier in wastewater treatment is the primary process to separate solids and water. Clarifiers are designed in a variety of shapes, but primarily for large wastewater treatment facilities, are large circular open-air tanks where wastewater enters, usually through a center tower and the flow slows significantly thus allowing solids that are in suspension to settle to the floor. The settled solids are directed towards the center using very slow moving collection scrapers. The clearer effluent, now at the top of the tank, exits the tank usually through V-notch weirs to be further treated before being released for reclaim use or into surface water.

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