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News Release from: Biwater Treatment | Subject: Buxton WwTP
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 August 2003
Dual site for new Buxton Wastewater
plant
Biwater Treatment has started work on the UK PDS 8.2 Million upgrading of Buxton Wastewater Treatment Plant, which will use fine bubble diffused aeration and MBR filtration on a separate site
Biwater Treatment has started work on the UK PDS 8.2 Million upgrading of Buxton Wastewater Treatment Plant Although some existing structures will be refurbished and converted, the process route is new, utilising fine bubble diffused aeration and MBR filtration complemented by improved sludge handling facilities
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 20 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Design flow is 16.7MLD, with a loading of 1230 kg/d BOD.
The topography of the plant is unusual, with the inlet works and sludge and storm handling plant on the existing site, and aeration and MBR in a redundant quarry on higher ground nearby.
The A6 and a major local road run between the sites, and flows will be transferred through an underground pipe crossing that has already been installed as the first stage of the project.
The completed scheme will meet the new consent of 15:25:5/10 (BOD:SS:NH3), a combination of the Fishery and River Quality Objectives consents.
The membrane plant will yield an effluent suitable for discharge into the adjacent stretch of the River Wye, and the downstream filter beds that polished the effluent from the old plant will be demolished and returned to a natural state.
Because Buxton is in a conservation area just outside the Peak District National Park, environmental and aesthetic considerations played an important part in the planning process.
To help satisfy these concerns, Biwater carried out a number of environmental impact studies in conjunction with Severn Trent, and produced 3D images of the plant as it will appear from the principal vantage points.
The 77-week programme will be completed in July 2004.
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