Method of augmenting flow in a wastewater treatment plant

A method of treating wastewater comprising the steps of providing a first chamber adapted to receive wastewater, a second chamber also adapted to receive wastewater, a common wall between the first and second chambers, the second chamber including a lowermost chamber portion in which sludge is adapted to settle, a lowermost opening in a lowermost portion of the common wall being in immediate and direct fluid communication with a lowermost chamber portion of the first chamber and with the second chamber lowermost chamber portion;

• transferring sludge from the second chamber lowermost chamber portion into the first chamber lowermost chamber portion through the lowermost opening, conducting wastewater from an uppermost water portion of the wastewater in the first chamber into the second chamber adjacent an uppermost portion of the second chamber, and thereafter continuing conducting the wastewater from the second chamber uppermost portion downwardly into the second chamber lowermost chamber portion to create wastewater current flow augmenting the transfer of the sludge from the second chamber lowermost chamber portion into the first chamber lowermost chamber portion through the common wall lowermost opening by continuous recirculating flow.