ClearPod Case Study: Advanced Pump Chamber

ClearPod Case Study: Advanced Pump Chamber

Location: Ontario, Canada

Partner Installer: ESSE (http://www.essecanada.com/)

Problem:

Our on-site partners at ESSE identified a client with a hydraulically overloaded sand filter bed (15 – 20 year old system). The client was looking at a $35,000 cost to replace the existing filter bed.

ClearPod Solution:

ClearPod was incorporated as part of a complete upgrade of the existing installed system. This existing system included a septic tank and a subsequent 1000 gal pump chamber. As part of the upgrade the pump chamber was retrofitted with a filtered effluent pump and a time dosing control panel. The ClearPod unit was placed in the first compartment of the pump chamber to polish the septic tank effluent before it ‎is pumped to the sand filter bed.

Results:

Performance – Recent wastewater sampling from this test site has indicated effluent from the pump chamber of 28.2 mg/L cBOD and 22 mg/L TSS. This results indicate an approximate removal rate of BOD / TSS of 80 – 90% and significantly reduced load to the subsequent sand filter bed.

Upgrade Opportunity – This clearly demonstrates the benefit of a wastewater polishing process after the septic tank when incorporated with a large time dosed pump chamber. This “advanced pump chamber” solution can incorporate the drop-in ClearPod technology to a 1000 – 1500 gallon tank and time dose flow to the existing leaching field infrastructure.

Cost Benefit – The upgrade solution came in at 30% the cost of replacing the existing leach field with the entire project incorporating new risers, effluent filter, pumps, time dosing panels, leach field bioremediation and the ClearPod unit