WARREN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
INNOVATIVE/ALTERNATIVE WASTEWATER TREATMENT & DISPERSAL SYSTEM WARREN, VERMONT
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
Meeting/exceeding client's needs:
Economical solution within original budget
utilizing 75% EPA
Demonstration Grant.
Meets all goals and concepts of the client
as listed above.
Meets aggressive schedule of client- Less
than 6 months
from beginning of design to substantial completion, including
extreme
winter construction.
Fast-track design/build project included
engineer-assisted
direct purchase of long lead-time components in advance of bids for
installation. This resulted in shortening of the project
duration and saving money for the Client.
New applications of innovative/alternative
technology:
This is the first Innovative/Alternative
System permitted
by a Vermont Environmental Regional Engineer under the Small Scale
Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Rules.
Treatment system utilized
innovative/alternative design
utilizing textile filters, which fit in less than half the area of
previously
allowed systems.
Dispersal system utilizes many readily
available materials in
shallow, gravel-less trenches that optimize microbial removal of
contaminants within the topsoil stratum.
The system control panel utilizes a modem
and user-friendly
software
for remote monitoring and control to increase flexibility and to reduce
O&M costs by allowing operator access from their home computer.
Social/economic
considerations:
Replaced existing failed septic system
at elementary
school.
Intended to help correct drinking water
contamination at
elementary school that had apparently resulted from the existing
failed septic system.
Provides public and professional education
and outreach to
educate
the Towns-people in I/A systems to be used in the proposed Village area
decentralized wastewater project.
Complexity:
Utilizes innovative/alternative technology
in conjunction with
many
readily available local materials.
State-of-the-art control panel and remote
monitoring that is commononly
in much larger systems.
Fast track design/build project
included
engineer-assisted
direct purchase of long lead-time components in advance of bids for
installation.
Extreme winter construction of wastewater
treatment system facilitated
by innovative, yet simple system design.
Technical value to the profession:
Demonstration to Federal/State agencies in
use of
Innovative/Alternative technology to be considered for subsurface
wastewater disposal systems throughout Vermont.
System provides an economic alternative that
works in
heavier soils with higher groundwater and has a much smaller footprint
than previously allowed technologies.
