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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 578234
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/578234
The first purpose-built combined sewage and refuse plant to be built in Scotland. It was opened by the Secretary of State in 1953. The sewage treatment plant comprises grit channels, screens and settling tanks, biological filters and a humus tank. The refuse plant, now no longer in use, comprised a reception hopper, trummel screen for the removal of ash, stones etc., magnetic separator for the extraction of ferrous
metal, picking belt for the separation of non-compostables and BJD hammer mill for chopping turnips.
For composting, material is prepared in layers of straw, pulverised refuse and sewage sludge. After a composting period of 13 weeks, the material is screened and bagged for sale under the trade name Eradite.
The plant was designed by J. C. Wylie to deal with sewage from a population of 5000 and refuse from a population of 8000. The contractor for construction of the plant was Dumfries County Council.
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R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
