Northern-Ireland headquartered firm TES Group have recently completed the design and build of two new wastewater treatment plants on behalf of Irish Water in Co. Mayo.

The Belcarra and Lahardane WwTP’s were required to meet National and European environmental legislation with TES selected as the design and built contractor following a competitive tender process. TES are also responsible for the operation of both Belcarra WwTP and Lahardane WwTP for a period of 3 months.

The new Belcarra WwTP included the following:

• Maintain current treatment levels during Design Build stage
• New primary settlement tanks
• New forward feed pump station
• New Secondary settlement tank
• New sludge return pump station
• Refurbishment of existing control building
• Design and manufacture of new MCC

The new Lahardane WwTP included:

• Inlet flow measurement and sampling
• New inlet pump station with provision for storage
• New chemical dosing package with bunded storage
• New fine bubble diffused aeration (FBDA) system
• New secondary settlement tank
• New sludge waste/return pump station
• New final effluent (washwater) pump station

The TES team were responsible for all works under the projects including civil, mechanical and process design, civil works, MEICA works and operation of the plants.

Commenting on the completion of the projects, TES Project Manager Connor Hodges said:

“we’re delighted to successfully complete our latest projects for Irish Water, the project delivery team has worked hard over a number of months to concurrently deliver two new Wastewater Treatment Plants that fulfil all of the criteria set at the beginning of the project by Irish Water and TES teams.”