Versatility Gildersome Surface Treatment
Sustainable Urban Drainage has been a well known concept for many years. Reedbed Filtration has been successfully used to treat surface water and waste water from housing developments.
The sheer versatility of Reedbeds can be seen in the following excerpt from one of our presentations. Normally sewage is directed to one central point where treatment takes place. But with Reedbeds they can be placed right where the problem occurs. This way Reedbeds can be placed in locations around the village, to maximize treatment at the point where the problem occurs, and to reduce engineering costs of creating one single point of treatment.
Here in Gildersome, a new build housing development directs surface water through a Reedbed, into a pond system, to overflow into the passing ditch system.
First Planted October 2003 Early January 2005 September 2006
Surface water passes through a Reedbed to clean up silts and road runoff.
So we can have development and progress, working together with natural systems, and still it is economical. Indeed, in directing the surface water in this way, there is less pressure on the sewage system. As a result less instances of untreated waste water from domestic and industrial customers will be discharged into rivers and streams.