Compliance Reporting

Wastewater Treatment Plant Management

Wastewater Treatment Plant Management is more important now than ever to ensure environmental compliance and that water as one of our most important resources is no longer degraded.

Whether you own, operate, or manage a municipal or industrial facility that produces wastewater, it is important to understand how significant of a role wastewater treatment can play in the overall health of a business and the surrounding environment.

Wastewater treatment, operation and maintenance is a complex process – one that is essential for the successful treatment of wastewater before it is discharged into the environment.

There are multiple ways to treat wastewater with some systems providing more effective treatment than others. The more effective the treatment process, the more potential there is for re-use of this treated wastewater and the lower the impact will be on the receiving environment.

AVRIO is an environmental management company focused on sustainable, energy efficient water and wastewater treatment. Our team consists of trained professionals with extensive experience in the design and management of wastewater treatment systems in both the industrial and municipal sectors.

AVRIO can carry out a review and analysis of existing on-site operations, raw wastewater streams, wastewater constituents and wastewater volumes. This provides us with a baseline knowledge of how a facility is currently operating and allows us to identify potential areas for improvement.

Following a review, AVRIO can propose operational changes to provide sufficient wastewater treatment, ensuring compliance with licence parameters while further making optimisational adjustments to minimise resource consumption, chemical consumption, and reduce overall wastewater treatment plants costings.

AVRIO offer ongoing wastewater treatment plant management services to ensure a facility remains in continued environmental compliance with all relevant emission limit values associated with such facilities.

As part of continuous management or one-off service offerings, AVRIO can offer additional services such as:

Wastewater Treatment Plant Manual Preparation
Wastewater Treatment Plant Training
Chemical Suppliers
Technology Suppliers

CASE STUDY

Wastewater Treatment Plant Management

Wastewater Treatment Plant Management (Manual Development)

AVRIO were appointed by a large Industrial Emissions Licenced facility within the Food & Beverage sector to develop and implement wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) manuals for several of their facilities located throughout the U.K, Ireland and greater Europe.

The purpose of the development of these wastewater treatment plan manuals was to:

Ensure that the WWTP’s are operated to the highest possible standards;
Improve maintenance practices;
Ensure that assets provided are maintained;
Educate operators and equip them with the essential skills;
Provide operators with a knowledge of treatment standards, and
Create and awareness of the extent and uses of the equipment provided;
Ensure compliance with facility license ELV’s.

The operation of each WWTP differs based on their layout, capacity, wastewater characteristics and the equipment installed. Therefore, as part of this project AVRIO were required to carry out a review of the existing on-site operations at each facility WWTP.

Following this review, AVRIO developed site specific WWTP manuals that clearly described each stage of the treatment process. This included a detailed description of the primary, secondary and tertiary stages of treatment and identification of all necessary critical control points to ensure optimal performance will be maintained throughout each process.

On completion, AVRIO carried out training at each of the facilities to ensure all staff involved in WWTP operation, management, supervision and maintenance fully understood each aspect of the manual and were fully equipped to operate the plant and the technologies therein.

Several of these facilities have had routine inspections from the relevant governing bodies, in which the WWTP manuals were reviewed. All governing bodies were satisfied that the manuals fully described the treatment processes and all process controls to be implemented to ensure a high standard of operation into the future.