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Alternative Wastewater Treatment Systems on the World Wide Web
Ocean Arks International is a non-profit research and educational institution dedicated to restoring polluted waters. In 1986 they developed the prototype for a Living Machine, the generic name for what is now a family of licensed, ecologically based, environmental restoration and waste water treatment technologies.
On the 13th of October 1995 Jonathan Porritt opened Europe's first Living Machine at the Findhorn Foundation. This ecologically engineered sewage treatment plant is treating sewage from 330 people living at the Findhorn Foundation and is providing a research and educational facility to develop this technology throughout Europe.
There are 20 Living Machines currently
operating and/or in design. They include:
Location - Waste - Flow (gallons per day) - Year of construction
Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island - Sewage - 16,000gpd - 1989
Paws Inc., Indiana - Sewage - 3,000 gpd - 1990
The Body Shop, Toronto - Sewage - 3,000gpd - 1993
Ballanger Creek, Maryland - Sewage - 50,000gpd - 1993
City of San Francisco, CA - Sewage - 50,000gpd - 1994
Audobon Society, Florida - Sewage - 7,500gpd - 1994
Wyong, NSW, Australia - Industrial Wastewater - 200,000gpd - 1995
Henderson Foods, Nevada - Industrial Wastewater - 32,000gpd -
1995
Findhorn, Scotland - Sewage - 18,000gpd - 1995
The Body Shop,U.K - Production Wastewater - 13,000gpd - 1996
Wetland Wastewater Treatment Plant, Arcata, CA. Ninety-four acres of ponds and fresh water wetlands treat municipal wastewater, while the hardstem bulrushes of the marshes are cultivated to produce gasohol.
The SWAMP project began in 1991 as an alternative proposal to the construction of a conventional Physical/Chemical treatment plant for the tertiary polishing of Niagara-on-the Lake sewage.
Stensund Folk College in Trosa, south of Stockholm, Sweden. The school´s wastewater is treated in a greenhouse, where it is used to produce plants and fish in an integrated cultivation system.
Advanced Integrated Pond (AIP) systems, St Helena, California.
