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Treatment System

Installed Aboard Texas

A&M Training Ship

Texas A&M University's Texas

Maritime Academy, College Sta- tion, Texas 77843, has installed a sewage waste treatment system aboard its training ship, Texas

Clipper, eliminating the dumping of raw sewage in harbors and at sea.

The 15,000-ton vessel is one of a small number of ships in the world with a waste water system, noted Adm. James D. Craik, TMA superintendent. Admiral Craik said the system meets all existing Fed- eral and state water pollution re- quirements.

The Texas Clipper project has led to a proposed research program for merchant vessels in general.

The ship is berthed at Texas

A&M's new Mitchell Campus on

Pelican Island in Galveston. It serves as a dormitory and dining hall for TMA cadets during the regular school year, in addition to being used for summer training cruises to Europe and other parts of the world each summer.

Admiral Craik said the $100,000 fresh water system includes one 3,000-gallon pre-treatment tank, one 7,500-gallon final treatment tank, one 15,000-gallon holding tank and two multipurpose trans- fer pumps.

Pipes and pumps have been cross-connected to provide re- searchers with the capability to either induce chemicals or transfer wastes for further treatment, Ad- miral Craik explained. The system is designed for 250 men at 30 gal- lons per day treatment for each man. The admiral said the five- stage treatment cycle produces a high quality, clear and odorless effluent.

Design engineering was pro- duced by the Galveston naval ar- chitectural firm of Designers and

Planners, a subsidiary of Todd's

Shipyards Corp., with installation by McDonough Iron Works, Gal- veston. The 15,000-gallon holding tank and two pumps were provided by Todd Shipyards Corp., Galves- ton Division.

Bio-Pure, Inc., of Tualatin, Ore., produced the treatment equipment.

The system was installed with- out using state-appropriated or

Federal funds, Admiral Craik em- phasized.

TMA has 82 sophomore, junior and senior cadets enrolled at the

Galveston campus. Freshmen are enrolled at Texas A&M's College

Station campus.

The Texas Clipper is used to train the students in practical as- pects of their education, leading to licenses as merchant marine offi- cers and Naval Reserve officers.

Capt. Alfred Philbrick, TMA ex- ecutive officer, pointed out there is little information available on treatment units for existing ships, and new merchant vessels only have holding tanks that are flushed at sea. He has proposed a research program to the Federal Water Pol- lution Control Administration which would utilize the Bio-Pure system on the Texas Clipper.

One of the research projects is the feasibility of utilizing harbor water with the ship's waste, treat- ing and discharging an effluent in- to the harbor that represents con- siderable improvement over the original. Another consideration would be a system which could operate on harbor or sea water, since fresh water systems are not realistic on merchant ships at sea.

He also suggested the testing of harbor water in world ports to de- termine its effect on shipboard waste systems.

Captain Philbrick said the end result could not only be pollution- free waste from the ship, but also the treatment of polluted water from the harbor.

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