WCS Environmental Engineering know-how has been chosen to ship wastewater remedy at a landmark industrial growth in east London.
Momentum is a strategic logistics scheme reworking a 20-acre brownfield website subsequent to the River Thames in Rainham. Being delivered by HBD and Barings in three way partnership partnership, Momentum will comprise 4 models and is designed to be a ‘carbon impartial, sustainable house that meets occupiers’ accountable enterprise and environmental, social and governance obligations’.
The contractor on the scheme is Readie Building.
WCSEE will ship a full remedy system, with main, second and tertiary phases, to handle wastewater produced by as much as 1,380 staff every day. The below-ground system will comprise a main settlement tank, a Hybrid-SAF™ – submerged aerated filter – unit to supply secondary organic remedy and a sand filter to take away any extra suspended solids from the handled wastewater earlier than it’s discharged.
The system has been designed to deal with flows to tight environmental requirements of 10mg/l organic oxygen demand (BOD), 15mg/l suspended solids, and 3mg/l ammonia. As such, the sand filter will present a stage of tertiary remedy to deliver consent requirements above what is generally anticipated from a organic course of.
WCSEE technical supervisor Dominic Hamblin mentioned, “We’re happy that Readie Building has chosen WCSEE know-how to ship wastewater remedy for the Momentum growth. Now we have labored with Readie beforehand on an analogous challenge and perceive the necessities of large-scale industrial developments.
“Our modular remedy models are constructed off-site and could be simply transported. The know-how has a 30% smaller footprint than comparable applied sciences and their compact design permits models to be put in in places the place house is at a premium, akin to a busy business website.
“Our HiPAF-SAF vary meets stringent European environmental discharge consent requirements with out using chemical compounds, and has the additional benefit of a built-in timer for the blowers, which might halve the quantity of vitality used to deal with effluent. The know-how is commonly specified by UK water utilities and is an efficient selection for delicate places.”
James Birch, senior amount surveyor, Readie Building, mentioned: “Momentum is a landmark industrial scheme with excessive environmental credentials. As such, we happy to once more be working with WCSEE to put in strong wastewater remedy to make sure safety of the encircling setting.”