Raise a Glass to a Complex Winery Wastewater Treatment System

A large-capacity and expandable membrane bioreactor design will keep California’s Castello di Amorosa in production for many years to come

Raise a Glass to a Complex Winery Wastewater Treatment System

The completed wastewater treatment system for Castello di Amorosa winery shows only the Orenco Systems and Xerxes risers and vents on top of the Xerxes 22,000-gallon tanks. Any of the treatment trains can be shut down for maintenance or when wastewater flows are low. Restarting a train requires moving mixed liquor only a few feet from an operating train. (Photos courtesy Wine to Water Sales Group)

The Castello di Amorosa winery opened in Calistoga, California, in 2007 with a series of large septic tanks and a pressurized distribution system of trenches with rock and pipe to handle its wastewater flows.

“I don’t know how long it really lasted,” Sheldon Sapoznik says....

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