A new AutoCamp glamping facility just outside the west entrance to Joshua Tree National Park in San Bernardino, California, required a wastewater treatment system that could handle daily flows from the 55 Airstream campers estimated at 100 gpd per Airstream. Located in a sensitive environment that included large, mature tree growth, the system also needed to provide minimum disruption to the landscape and visual impact to guests.
CHALLENGE
San Bernardino County wastewater treatment regulations require NSF245 treatment. The system is also in the Joshua Basin Water District, which requires <10 mg/L TN effluent on top of the San Bernardino County requirements due to the sensitive area.
SYSTEM DESIGN
An ECOPOD staged denitrifying system in Jensen Precast Tanks was selected based on the simple operation, minimal maintenance and robust treatment it could provide. Wastewater is piped to the 5,500 gpd ECOPOD treatment system from each of the Airstream locations and from a main building structure that houses a craft brewery, restaurant and food commissary. The large precast concrete tanks were shipped to the job site. The 15,000-gallon BOD and Nitrifying ECOPOD reactor was battery style with three 5,000-gallon battery units, which were assembled at the job site. The ECOPOD reactors were installed inside two concrete tanks. One 5,000-gallon primary setline tank with an effluent filter and a second 3,000-gallon flow equalization tank with duplex time dosed pumps. Following installation, the top to the tanks were sealed. It then travels to a stone and pipe dispersal field.
WHY ECOPOD?
Delta ECOPOD Commercial Advanced Wastewater Treatment Units offer treatment capacities from 1,500 to 250,000 gpd in preengineered treatment plants for commercial or decentralized wastewater treatment needs. ECOPOD units are engineered to treat a wide range of wastewater flows and characteristics offering exceptional cBOD and TSS treatment. The system is designed to meet each project’s individual treatment goals. It can be built to serve as the complete treatment system or in conjunction with another technology to provide secondary or tertiary treatment. Additionally, the system can be configured to work with virtually any dispersal method or direct discharge.
RESULT
The owner and engineer were happy because Infiltrator proposed a robust and easy to operate system that required minimal maintenance and was designed to achieve the effluent total nitrogen requirement of <10 mg/L. The project engineer was Kimley Horn, and the contractor was Advantage Septic Systems located in Hemet, California.
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