Scottish Water has completed £2.2 million upgrade at its Dunfermline Waste Water Treatment Works (WwTW) which serves approximately 82,000 customers across Fife.
The investment will improve the reliability and sustainability of the facility while continuing to protect and enhance the environment.
The catalyst for the major upgrade was the end of the long term contract with an external operator and the opportunity to better control and improve odours at the plant.
The decision was taken in late 2015 to re-design and relocate the sludge processing plant from the open air to inside an odour controlled building on the existing site.
The project encompassed the design, supply and installation of a new sludge thickening system and housing it indoors. This included, replacing the existing pumps, adding new sealed skips and refurbishing the odour control system.
Don MacLean, Scottish Water’s Project Manager of the improvements said:
“The new installation, which is already used successfully at many Scottish Water sites across Scotland, will result in reduced noise levels and visual impact of the site to passing traffic.
“In addition, we are currently scoping and designing a lime dosing system which will further treat the waste and allow it to be used as fertiliser spread which is more economical and environmentally friendly than using landfill.”
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