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It has good parking, pleasant pedestrian access and it’s beautiful. It’s one of the few places you can easily get close to the muddy waters. Mud Island is probably the most visited river park in the Mid-South, and with good reason. You can see it quite clearly from google earth too! And this is unfortunate for the river’s reputation. This all sounds good, but as you continue downstream you’ll see that the effluent hugs the left bank past the mouth of the Wolf River and along Mud Island Harbortown Park. The biogas generated by the covered lagoon system is sold to a nearby industry and used to fuel an electric generation operation on-site. The digested sludge is dewatered with belt filter presses and the dewatered sludge cake is stored in a surface disposal facility on-site. The waste activated sludge is sent to a covered lagoon system for anaerobic digestion. Stiles Facility treats an average daily flow of 80 million gallons of wastewater using a treatment regime that consists of coarse bar screens, fine bar screens, grit removal, activated sludge contact-stabilization followed by secondary clarification and discharge into the Mississippi River. Outrageous piles of foam accompanied the outflow until several years ago a de-surfactant was added and the foam disappeared.įrom a City of Memphis Report, The M.C.
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#MUD RIVER ISLAND FULL#
In high water the pipe is covered but the smell remains, and the outflow emerges in giant billowing boils full of bubbles. If you didn’t know what it was you might be tempted to jump in with your playboat and do a couple of 360s in the whirlpools and surf the standing waves. Indeed from Google Earth it looks like a mountain river pouring into the Mississippi. At low water the outflow gushes out of a giant pipe along the bank and creates a lively whitewater feature. If the wind is out of the north, you won’t smell it until you’ve paddled past it. Safe Travel Through a Notched or Overtopped Back Channel Dike.Options for Moderate (Intermediate) Paddlers.Forecasting and Monitoring River Levels.