The golf club had an existing extended filtration plant but due to further expansion the plant need upgrading to meet its EA consent criteria. The additional work to the system included tertiary treatment in the form of three horizontal flow reed beds and an extensive soakaway.
This popular tourist attraction and restaurant had out grown its existing sewage treatment plant capacity. WCI installed a new septic tank before the existing plant, altered the existing plant`s treatment capacity and pumped the treated effluent to further secondary treatment, clarification and reed beds. The discharge from the beds flows into the local watercourse.
The nursing home was expanding to include a new dementia care wing. As a result the EA requested a new system to deal with the extra client and staff numbers. A three stage sewage treatment plant was installed discharging to two horizontal reed beds into a consented flowing ditch.
The school had been historically discharging into a large `pond` for as long as anyone could remember. All the surface water was separated from the foul flow. The pond was cleaned out and landscaped to enable it to be fashioned as a surface water retention pond. The foul was redirected into a septic tank discharging via two reed beds to a soakaway.
The Earl of Plymouth Estate required sewage treatment for its new Food Centre, Craft Centre, Hotel, Cafe and public toilets. The only land available involved pumping septic tank effluent under a busy road and into secondary treatment, clarification and tertiary reed beds.
The site was suffering with a failed soakaway . A pump chamber was installed at the back end of the septic tank and the effluent was treated via a reed bed and soakaway. The reed bed was designed to mirror the existing pond and complement the proposed cob summer house.