My entry for this month’s special or not comes from my recent work at the Esso fuel terminal at Avonmouth.
It’s a fairly large site and as you’ll know from Puma, getting on to these sites and actually getting some work done can be tricky and time consuming. You can see the scale of the site and location of the plant in the attached photos.
I originally went to site around a month ago and looked at an aged and failed treatment plant. Previous attempts to resurrect it had been unsuccessful so we were called in to investigate. The plant itself is unusual in that it doesn’t use a blower in the treatment process, instead it uses a form of pumped irrigation over filter media. The plant contains two pumps, one for sludge return and the other irrigation. Neither of the two pumps in the plant were operational. The sludge return pump had failed and the control panel was passed it’s best, so I proposed to replace the pump and rebuild the control panel.
The job went ahead and was a success, and the irrigation was quite spectacular to watch and not like any other plant I’ve worked on. It’s definitely interesting to see how older treatment plants operated and how the approach to sewage treatment has changed and progressed over the years.
It was a very satisfying job to carry out and the customer was very pleased with the outcome.
Working at WCI allows us to work with some amazing people and at some special places. This post is part of a series celebrating all the special things we get to do.
