Marsh/pond sewage treatment plants

Technical Report · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1976

OSTI ID:7361439

Small, M M

At Brookhaven National Laboratory today there is operating a 10,000 gallon per day sewage treatment system that consists only of a marsh and a pond. The influent to this system is raw sewage blended with septage and sludge. The effluent is potable water. The system is odor, rodent, fly and mosquito free. It produces no sludge nor airblown particles. It is a pleasant site to have next door, complete with fish, birds and wildlife. It produces a useful annual crop which is salable. This project is the prototype of similar systems which are proposed for communities up to 10,000 people. They can be built at a cost of about 60 cents/gal day and operated at less than one man year expense.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: E(30-1)-16
• OSTI ID: 7361439
• Report Number(s): BNL-21237; CONF-760526-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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