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Field Data now available for the StormFilter EnviroPod

Local Peer Reviewed Field Data now available for the StormFilter EnviroPod (SFEP) Treatment Train

April 2011. Findings from case study featuring StormFilter EnviroPod treatment train has been completed and Peer Reviewed by Queensland University of Technology. The field evaluation follows on from a study performed on the same device by James Cook University.

JCU reported on the quality of the watershedís receiving waters, the chemical characterisation of the road runoff and the performance of the SFEP over four runoff events. Further investigate by Stormwater360 was done in order to permit a qualitative assessment to which the two relative datasets agree.

The project included the services of Cairns Water, to monitor and maintain the equipment and provide sample analysis. Queensland University inspected the site and peer reviewed the process and report. Data was collected from 6 storm events, predominantly during the dry seasons of 2008 and 2009. No recognized field testing protocols for stormwater sampling for Suspended Solids, Nutrients & Metals are currently available within Australia and had to be adapted from overseas. Results from the field studies indicate that this treatment train consistently achieves sound reductions in Suspended Solids, Nutrients & Metals, using nothing more than conventional filtration, ion-exchange technologies in conjunction with dry contaminant storage.  As such, a very practical contribution can be made to reducing the sediment and nutrient load transported into our waterways, where site constraints make a WSUD approach impractical.

Background

The StormFilter EnviroPod (SFEP) treatment train is a compact implementation of multiple stormwater treatment elements (Figure 1). It is comprised of an EnviroPodÆ (EnviroPod) gully pit insert pre-treatment filter and a Stormwater Management StormFilterÆ (StormFilter) radial cartridge filter with ZPGTM media. The SFEP is typically designed to provide stormwater treatment in  ultra urban environment by meeting water quality standard whilst increasing yield and hence cost effectiveness for developers. For more information please register or login to stormwater360.