Liquid purification or separation – Flow – fluid pressure or material level – responsive – Float
Patent
1996-05-14
1997-12-30
Upton, Christopher
Liquid purification or separation
Flow, fluid pressure or material level, responsive
Float
210170, 210253, 210256, 210301, 2105322, 210540, 210602, 210747, C02F 332
Patent
active
057025932
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for treating contaminated stormwater runoff from roads and adjacent lands. A multi-stage and self-contained integrated module is designed to collect the first flush of stormwater runoff (which contains the majority of pollutants) and to treat the pollutants using sedimentation, filtration and constructed wetlands. The apparatus is mass-produced to provide standardized hydrologic controls, important to the reliability of the constructed wetland component of the apparatus. Raw stormwater enters the central sedimentation chamber of the apparatus which is divided into multiple segments designed to provide a series of sedimentation/filtration chambers. At least one chamber is provided with a removable filter bulkhead. Effluent from the final sedimentation chamber is discharged to the constructed wetland system which surrounds the central sedimentation tank. Water flows through the perimeter wetland system in subsurface/saturated conditions and contacts the root zone of the constructed wetland where biochemical interactions attenuate pollutants. A skimmer tube may be positioned in at least one chamber to pass water from near the surface through an adjacent bulkhead to the lower part of the next chamber. A hydrologic control valve in the apparatus regulates the flow of water from the central sedimentation tank to the wetland and the effluent discharge rate out of the wetland. This control and the standardization of the construction allows for precise hydrologic controls designed to provide a 5-10 day holding time within the apparatus.
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Horsley Scott W.
Platz Winfried
Stormtreat Systems, Inc.
Upton Christopher
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