The two key benefits of the SPEL Floating Treatment Wetland are a much higher treatment surface area (around 10,000 times bigger than a conventional wetland) and the low cost of maintenance.
This system can be used in almost any water body needing treatment, the minimum depth of 1.4m (dry weather) is required to ensure the plants don’t take root into the pond bed. As the system flourishes the root network grows to form a living filter and becomes its own microcosm feeding on the microbes, pollutants and bacteria to deliver much cleaner water.
The simple maintenance process involves uncoupling the floating module(s), moving them to allow the pond base to be dredged, then repositioned. Your treatment system will then be immediately operating at optimum level. By contrast, once conventional wetlands are exhausted, the complete system needs to be replaced and replanted with its associated extra costs and down time.
Cleaning water of pollutants is an on-going challenge for communities across the globe as the demand for environmental improvement grows in line with the need to find cost-effective and sustainable methods to remove everincreasing amounts of contaminants from diverse bodies of water.
SPEL’s revolutionary low cost, highly flexible system of floating treatment media is meeting this need. This innovative system has strong scientific credentials based on the outcomes of independent trials, is an environmentallysound process, and meets business requirements for sustainable solutions.