Ecoteric Systems Ltd have successfully tendered for the installation of a waste water treatment plant and reed bed at Butser Ancient farm.
Butser Ancient Farm, ten miles north of Portsmouth and located in the recently designated South Downs National Park, is an open air museum of life in the Iron Age and Roman Periods. There are several reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses and a Roman villa. Ancient livestock breeds and crop varieties are grown at the farm. The farm was founded in 1972 by the late Dr Peter Reynolds to test out archaeological theories by experiment.
As well as being open to the general public for a wide variety of events and special demonstrations, the farm places special focus on education and accommodates 14,000 school children through visits every year, as well as students through to postgraduate level. A new visitor centre is proposed and the existing cesspool is to be made obsolete, to be replaced by a packaged sewage treatment plant and constructed wetland for tertiary treatment. The Reed bed and polishing pond will be a further education feature for school children and adults alike.
The Farm, now managed by Simon Jay and Maureen Page forming the Butser Education Community Interest Company, has been awarded grant aid from the South Downs Sustainable Development Fund to deliver this interesting and exciting project. Ecoteric Systems Ltd have successfully tendered for the installation of the treatment plant and reed bed. A featured polishing pond will be constructed and connected on a commercial farmers neighbouring land and a grant for this has been secured through English Heritage. We are delighted to be invited to become involved in helping create an educational package and to promote the concept and building through the media.
Work is scheduled to start on 8th November and we shall keep you posted on the development and performance of the system.
Work is scheduled to start on 8th November and we shall keep you posted on the development and performance of the system.
As water management consultants, we design, construct , monitor and maintain bespoke natural filtration systems, sewage treatment and treatment/purification systems.
Global water consumption is doubling at a rate that is more than twice the rate of population growth. Fresh water is a finite and precious resource, which has, in recent years, largely been taken for granted.
As our climate becomes drier and warmer, so the need to call on efficient, ecological purification systems (such as gravel bed hydroponics) grows at a rapid pace.
Our systems also maximise water conservation through recycling and water purification.
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