System provides treatment for new commercial plaza
Problem: When a developer wanted to build a new commercial plaza in Orleans, Massachusetts, adjacent to the town’s off-ramp from the Mid-Cape Highway, the state Department of Environmental Protection required that a wastewater treatment and disposal facility be installed onsite to protect local groundwater. This commercial center generates up to 20,000 gpd of moderate- to high-strength wastewater. The system was permitted under Massachusetts Groundwater Discharge pollution control regulations requiring the system to meet a standard of less than 10 mg/L total nitrogen.
Solution: The project engineer selected a Bioclere treatment system from Aquapoint for
