The Rehabilitated Mudor sewage treatment plant at James Town was monitored\nover a period of 4 months (October 2017 to January 2018). This study\nanalyzed the physical, chemical and biological parameters of the raw sewage\nand the treated effluent from the plant. The result indicates that the total removal\nefficiencies were 98.8%, 91.2%, 62.8%, 28.6%, 81.7%, 43.6%, 82.5% and\n99.6% for BOD, COD, TSS, Nitrate-Nitrogen, Phosphate-Phosphorus, Ammonia-\nnitrogen, Sulphate and faecal coliform respectively. More than 13 parameters\nneeded to be met according to the Ghana Environmental Protection\nAgency (EPA) guideline were satisfactorily met whiles ammonia, total suspended\nsolids and phosphate were slightly out of range. From the results obtained,\nthe overall performance of the rehabilitated plant was satisfactory and\nhas seen some improvement with respect to the former recorded performance\nof the plant. With monitoring operation parameters for waste water plants\ndischarge guidelines becoming stringent over the past years, it could be said\nthat management of the Mudor rehabilitated treatment plant is on the right\ncause with full scale operation of the plant barely less than a year. Increase in\nthe process steps through rehabilitation resulted in several significant improvements\nin effluent quality parameters.
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