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News Release from: LAS International (Europe) | Subject: Sutton St James
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2008
Aero-Fac wastewater treatment system for
Anglia
Construction has commenced at the new Aero-Fac environmentally friendly wastewater treatment plant that will serve the village of Sutton St James in the Lincolnshire fens for Anglian Water
LAS International has started 2008 on a roll with the ground breaking for a new Aero-Fac wastewater treatment plant for Anglian Water to serve the village of Sutton St James in the Lincolnshire fens The plant, a first for an English water company, builds on the success of similar plants operating in East Anglia, at West Newton on the Sandringham Estate and Holkham on the Holkham Estate
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 20 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both these privately run plants were inspected and evaluated by Anglian Water before the Aero-Fac process was selected as the best solution for their customers at Sutton St James.
John Forkin, Anglian Water Contracts Manager, said: "We are committed to providing environmentally friendly and cost efficient solutions.
The Aero-Fac system offers a low carbon footprint solution, both in terms of construction and long term operational costs.
The system has no odour during normal operation and the earth banks around the cells give a visual aspect which is in keeping with the rural environment".
John Gillett, Managing Director of LAS International, explains that the Aero-Fac system incorporates a number of unique features.
"Not the least of which is a self-digesting sludge process that requires no pre-screening, sedimentation tanks or clarifiers, no sludge removal, dewatering or conditioning, and best of all, no routine sludge disposal and the associated lorry traffic in and out of the works.
All sludge is continuously self digested within the initial treatment stage.
The Sutton St James plant will also be the first in the UK to incorporate the Bio2Bloc ammonia removal process".
This modular, floating SAF system enables year-round compliance with ammonia consents but, in keeping with the overall design philosophy, minimises energy consumption by operating only when needed.
The new plant at Sutton St James is designed to provide wastewater treatment for approximately 830 people and was judged by Anglian Water to have the lowest overall carbon footprint of all the considered alternatives.
The project is being delivered by the One Alliance which is a collaboration between Anglian Water, Grontmij and Barhale Construction.
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