Blackburn Meadows Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade

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1. The new sludge treatment facility enables the neighbouring farmlands to use the recycled sludge as manure. (re 1) 2. Tho attenuate odour control (ref 3) 3. Improvements to the storm overflow system, which holds additional volumes of wastewater during periods of heavy rainfall, reducing the risk of flooding and pollution incidents in the vicinity of the works.(ref 2) 4. Installing a new Sludge Digestion Plant (ref 2) 5. unused part of the former sewage works to be reclaimed and turned into a nature reserve - Blackburn Meadows which has the potential to be a flagship green space contributing to the regeneration of the Lower Don Valley. (ref 4 and 5) 6. Use the sludge from the treatment plant is used to produce methane gas and generate power through a combined heat and power plant (ref 6). 7. Phase 2 will replace the existing preliminary and primary treatment processes replaced and the existing secondary treatment process augmented, ensuring the facility meets tough final effluent guidelines under the EC Freshwater Fish Directive. (ref 6) 8. Will reduce the level of ammonia discharged from the site down to a quarter of its current level, and through improvements to the storm overflow system (ref 5).

Blackburn Meadows Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) was upgraded recently. Upgradation works were carried out to improve the quality of effluent being discharged into the River Don and reducing the risk of flooding and pollution incidents in the vicinity of the works. (Ref 3) In Phase 2 a part of the land has been converted to a local nature reserve (Ref 4 and 5). In Phase 2, the plant upgrade work includes the installation of eight new primary settlement tanks. These huge circular tanks are constructed using cast-in-situ reinforced concrete and boast a diameter of 40 m and a floor sloping at 7 deg (ref 6)

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