Water and Wastewater Terms Beginning E

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elutriation (e-LOO-tree-A-shun)

The process of washing digested sludge with fresh water, plant effluent, or other wastewater to remove fine particulates or to change the alkalinity, reducing the demand for conditioning chemicals and improving settling/filtering characteristics of the solids.