{"id":142,"date":"2012-06-15T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2012-06-20T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T09:00:07","slug":"bod","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/bod\/","title":{"rendered":"BOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143 alignnone\" title=\"BODDOprobe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/BODDOprobe-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/BODDOprobe-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/BODDOprobe.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The BOD test measures the amount of waste in the water, referred to as \u201corganic strength.\u201d\u00a0 Microorganisms in the wastewater need food and oxygen to live and reproduce.\u00a0 Thus, they break down organic wastes for food and use dissolved oxygen in the process.\u00a0 By measuring oxygen in wastewater with a dissolved oxygen meter before and after a 5-day incubation period, the relative organic strength of the wastewater can be calculated.\u00a0 The greater the oxygen depletion, the more waste in the wastewater.<br \/>\nBOD NOTE*<br \/>\nThe YRWWTP removes ~98% BOD and TSS before final discharge into the Yakima River.\u00a0 If untreated wastewater was discharged to the river, nearly all of the dissolved oxygen in the river would be depleted as microorganisms broke down wastes for food.\u00a0 With no dissolved oxygen, fish and other aquatic life would suffocate and die.\u00a0 In addition to being unsightly, foul odors would develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BOD test measures the amount of waste in the water, referred to as \u201corganic strength.\u201d\u00a0 Microorganisms in the wastewater need food and oxygen to live and reproduce.\u00a0 Thus, they break down organic wastes for food and use dissolved oxygen in the process.\u00a0 By measuring oxygen in wastewater with a dissolved oxygen meter before and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}