Severn Trent Water, through its key capital delivery partner MWH Treatment Ltd, has selected Bluewater Bio’s high rate multi-media filtration technology, FilterClear, for the provision of a Tertiary Solids Removal (TSR) plant at its Itchen Bank Sewage Treatment Works in Warwickshire.
BwB are providing a fully automated 4v2550 tertiary solids removal plant In order to achieve compliance with the new consent of 0.3 mg/l – with a contractual target of 0.24 mg/l - for phosphorus. Once completed, the FilterClear solids removal plant will be capable of treating in excess of 115 l/s.
Completed FilterClear installation for Severn Trent at Brockhampton STW
BwB’s scope will include design, manufacture, supply, installation and commissioning of a new TSR plant, with delivery scheduled for Autumn 2020.The contract marks the Company’s sixth phosphorus removal scheme with Severn Trent and first for AMP 7. The project will be delivered under the most up to date NEC suite of contracts, NEC4.
Fergus Rooksby, Commercial Director of Bluewater Bio, commented:
“We are delighted to work with both Severn Trent and MWHT on this P removal scheme. As we are now moving into AMP 7 this first contract, as part of the early start programme of works, allows us to keep up the momentum in establishing FilterClear as an ideal solution for a chemical dosing approach to low phosphorus consents.”
“Itchen Bank is our 6th contract with Severn Trent and serves to illustrate that FilterClear technology and Bluewater Bio are a reliable and attractive solution to clients’ P removal needs for the up and coming AMP. Coupled with recent successes elsewhere in Welsh Water, United Utilities and Wessex Water our position as technology provider for the coming AMP looks highly encouraging.”
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