Biwater Treatment has secured its third major contract incorporating membrane bio-reactor filtration - for the Northern Ireland Water Service's Ballyclare wastewater treatment works in County Antrim.
Biwater Treatment has secured its third major contract incorporating membrane bio-reactor filtration - for the Northern Ireland Water Service's new Ballyclare wastewater treatment works in County Antrim. The GBP9.1m project is being carried out by the Biwater Graham Joint Venture, following on from the previous Biwater MBR schemes at Campbeltown for Scottish Water, and at Severn Trent's newly completed Buxton WwTW. All three plants are for a population equivalent of around 29,000 and use Zenon environmental membranes.
Designed to cater for projected population growth and development needs over the next 25 years, the new Ballyclare works is scheduled for completion in July 2005.
It will replace the overloaded existing facility, which was built in two phases in the 1950s and 1970s, and two smaller works at Ballynure and Straid.
The MBR plant will ensure that the final effluent is of a quality suitable for discharge to the Six Mile Water, a sensitive salmon and trout river.