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Royston Drenthe

Andy Van Der Meyde

There is no chance at all the Treatment works is closing.

For anyone interested. Have a look at this. The Early Construction PDF gives an insight into silt removal, filling a dock in and foundations. Worked on the site during on and off over the last 25 years so having seen the process happen I find it interesting. Not sure it mentions it, but one of...

I'd imagine the process will be similar, even if not on such a heavy weight scale. But just guessing

The plant can treat 356,000 m3/day. That 356,000 tonnes of sweage that slowly pass through various giant processes. The SBR plant on Wellington dock has a 16 tanks, each 40mx49.5mx6.5m, giving each tank a volume of over 12000m3. Times 16, that's over 200,000m3 A cubic meter of water weighs 1...

Not a chance. Do you realise how many Millons of litres of liquid are in the Tanks that are sat on the Wellington Dock. It's a double decker plant with 16 enormous tanks all constructed out of reinforced concrete. What ever goes in the BM will be light weight in comparison even with the people

Yes they did look at it. It was years in the planning, but ultimately they had no choice but to build there so cost didnt really come into it. The footprint of the existing site was to small. They added a secondary treatment plant on Sandon Dock in 1998 but it couldnt meet new compliance levels...

Wellington Dock next door was a £200m extension to the Sewage works which was also a working dock prior. It was achieved by sealing it with a cofferdam, pumping in thousands of cubic meters of sand to displace the water (so the walls don't collapse) then drilling thousands of concrete piles to...