Problem: Two neighboring residences located on Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton, New York, had collapsing cesspools that needed to be replaced with a low-nitrogen treatment unit pursuant to new sanitary mandates implemented by the town and county. The project was complicated by the properties’ proximity to the harbor and the resultant high-water table. 

Solution: Advanced Wastewater Solutions and A&A Sewer and Drain teamed up to replace the failing cesspools with FujiClean CEN5 onsite treatment units leading into pressurized shallow drainfields consisting of an Orenco Simplex Pump Station discharging into two rows of chambered drainfield. The FujiClean CEN units will remove upwards of 80% of nitrogen from the wastewater effluent through its “contact filtration” treatment whereby the wastewater is recirculated through aerobic and anaerobic chambers in direct contact with proprietary fixed film media, facilitating biological digestion and mechanical filtration. The PSD further reduces total nitrogen and provides treatment of other contaminants by evenly distributing the effluent within 18 inches of the topsoil horizon where increased microbial activity and nutrient absorption occurs. 

Result: Under a special “emergency replacement” program adopted by Suffolk County, AWS and A&A were able to bypass the usual months-long sanitary design and approval process and replace both failed cesspools with cutting-edge onsite treatment technology in a total of three days. 

FujiClean is the world-leading manufacturer of onsite advanced wastewater treatment with over 2 million installed and operating systems. Compact and energy-efficient models are available in one-tank systems from 450 to 6,000 gpd. No preceding septic tank is required. NSF 40/245 denitrification units are best in class for Suffolk County, New York, BAT Bay Restoration Fund in Maryland, and BBUWP in Alabama.

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