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What is the key difference between primary and secondary sewage treatment?

Primary sewage treatment is to remove large and small solids through filtration and sedimentation while secondary treatment also known as biological treatment used microbes to consume organic matter. Primary treatment reduces BOD upto 20 to 30 percent. Secondary treatment reduces BOD upto 80 percent.


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