IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM - FINDING THE SOLUTION

The Problem:

• Do you live out in the country where there is no mains drainage
  system?

 

• Do you have a septic tank and soakaway drains system that is blocked up, overflowing and creating a nasty smelly boggy area in your garden?

 

• Is the Environment Agency asking you to improve the quality of the discharge from your package treatment plant?

 

• Is spraying your wastewater onto fields killing the vegetation and/or polluting local watercourses?

Do you have any one of the following problems to deal with:

• Green-field sites with no mains drainage
• Septic tanks discharging directly to open ditches and water courses
• Dense, heavy, impermeable soils that fail percolation tests
• Saturated and blocked soakaways
• High water tables
• A borehole, spring or water course too close to use a soakaway
• Cesspools that require regular emptying
• A package treatment plant is unacceptable or is overloaded
• A friendly ecological solution is required
• A high quality effluent is required by the Environment Agency
• Additional treatment is required by the Environment Agency
• Treatment of polluted waters is required for recycling and secondary use

The Solution:

If your home or your business is in a rural area or in one of the many country villages where there is no mains drainage system, you need to have some other way of treating and disposing of your sewage or any other polluting wastewater you might produce. The traditional approach has been to install a septic or settlement tank and discharge the effluent directly to a stream or into a soakaway. Discharging directly to a stream is no longer permitted and in many cases septic tank and soakaway systems simply can’t cope or are totally unsuitable for the soil conditions.

At Cress Water we specialise in offering solutions to any one of the problems listed above utilising the natural biological processes that take place in:

• Reed-beds
• Ponds
• Wetlands

These systems, alone or in any combination, are used in Cress Water's ecologically friendly treatment solutions to produce a clean effluent that can be discharged to a watercourse or to ground without risk of pollution or prosecution.

Highly effective, economical to run and with low maintenance requirements, our systems provide an ideal solution in many situations and have the added benefit of creating attractive ornamental or wildlife features - see the Case Studies Page.