WCS Environmental Engineering expertise has been chosen to ship wastewater remedy at a landmark industrial improvement in east London.
Momentum is a strategic logistics scheme remodeling 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 Development.
WCSEE will ship a full remedy system, with major, second and tertiary levels, to handle wastewater produced by as much as 1,380 employees every day. The below-ground system will comprise a major settlement tank, a Hybrid-SAF™ – submerged aerated filter – unit to offer 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 degree of tertiary remedy to carry consent requirements above what is generally anticipated from a organic course of.
WCSEE technical supervisor Dominic Hamblin stated, “We’re happy that Readie Development has chosen WCSEE expertise to ship wastewater remedy for the Momentum improvement. Now we have labored with Readie beforehand on an analogous venture and perceive the necessities of large-scale industrial developments.
“Our modular remedy models are constructed off-site and will be simply transported. The expertise has a 30% smaller footprint than comparable applied sciences and their compact design permits models to be put in in areas the place house is at a premium, similar to a busy business website.
“Our HiPAF-SAF vary meets stringent European environmental discharge consent requirements with out the usage of chemical substances, and has the additional benefit of a built-in timer for the blowers, which may halve the quantity of vitality used to deal with effluent. The expertise is recurrently specified by UK water utilities and is an efficient alternative for delicate areas.”
James Birch, senior amount surveyor, Readie Development, stated: “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.”
