Sewage Filtration And Water Treatment

Interesting new water treatment technology that has been patented in the UK. According to the press release, the process would not produce practically any sludge at all.

BioShaft is a green innovative wastewater treatment technology based on Bio-Filtration utilizing biomass carriers. These plants are made using the BioShaft Turbo Reactor that is at the heart of the wastewater technology. The plants have many benefits over traditional wastewater treatment, including the virtual elimination of sludge and odors and requires significantly less land. It is patented in the UK and the patent is pending in the United States. To date there are more than 30 waste water treatment plants throughout the world using this technology.

“The unique BioShaft fixed film process virtually eliminates sludge. Bioshaft is a biological treatment process that uses thousands of special carriers designed to create a large surface area for biofilm growth. This enhances the wastewater treatment process while reducing the footprint of the plant. By collecting and reintroducing this biofilm in to the process again, it allows us to virtually eliminate sludge!”

[Press release]

WDEF News reports:

At least one public waterway in Monteagle was polluted Sunday when a primary treatment basin failed at the city’s waste-water treatment plant.

Almost a 100-thousand gallons of effluent went into Juanita Creek.

Monteagle has two wastewater treatment plants…and this was plant number consisting of an above-ground steel tank.

Monteagle has also begun chlorinating the bypass into Juanita Creek.

[Full article]

(Effluent usually means water pollution, like the output from a wastewater treatment plant or discharge from factories or other industrial sources. Effluent sump pumps, pump waste from toilets installed under the level of local sewer. When talking about waste water treatment plants, treated effluent is often referred to as “secondary effluent”. This semi-treated water is often used to to feed biofilters with bacteria. [Wikipedia])

A door to door salesman and his group were charged over a scheme to sell unnecessary water purifiers to residents in Montgomery County. The group posed as government officers and told the residents that they are going to test their drinking water and reported it was not suitable for drinking, after which they informed the residents that a water purification system costing around $7000 is required to solve the problem.

The water treatment systems Cabello was selling were made by Puretech Water Treatment Systems Inc., a company Cabello worked for in 2006. It was found that Puretech gave him the equipment and handled the paperwork to seal the deals with the residents. Puretech was ordered to pay fines.

The water treatment systems have been uninstalled from the people who bought them and their money was returned.

Cabello’s group usually went to residences right after there had been a break in water distribution when water is often colored by rust in the pipes and the people thought there was something wrong with their tap water, so it made sense that a goverment official wanted to make an analysis.