Advanced Septic System Pump Chamber – ClearPod
- Cost effective, environmentally sustainable on-site system upgrade
Partner Installer: ESSE (http://www.essecanada.com/)
Problem:
Our installation partners at ESSE identified a client with a hydraulically overloaded sand filter bed (15 – 20 year old system). The client was looking at a $35,000 cost to replace the existing filter bed.
Failing Filter Bed
Solution:
ClearPod was incorporated as part of a complete upgrade of the existing installed system. This existing system included a septic tank and a subsequent 1000 gal pump chamber. As part of the upgrade the septic system pump chamber was retrofitted with a filtered effluent pump and a time dosing control panel. The ClearPod unit was placed in the first compartment of the pump chamber to polish the septic tank effluent before it is pumped to the sand filter bed.
ClearPod integrated as part of advanced septic system pump chamber
Results: ClearPod Case Study – ESSE 03-2016-1.1
Performance – This results indicate an approximate removal rate of BOD / TSS of 80 – 90% and significantly reduced load to the subsequent sand filter bed.
Upgrade Opportunity – This clearly demonstrates the benefit of a wastewater polishing process after the septic tank when incorporated with a large time dosed pump chamber.
Cost Benefit – The upgrade solution came in at 30% the cost of replacing the existing leach field with the entire project incorporating new risers, effluent filter, pumps, time dosing panels, leach field bioremediation and the ClearPod unit
