case studies

Biwater provides water and wastewater treatment services to millions of people around the world.

Our experience spans the entire industry and our services include:

  • water treatment
  • wastewater treatment
  • infrastructure ownership, investment and operation
  • water asset management and consultancy
  • water leisure facilities

Biwater brings its competitive combination of technical excellence, project management expertise and independent financial strength to every project the company undertakes, assuming the role of partner rather than simply a supplier or contractor.

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Southern Region
This was a £33.6M scheme to provide a primary treatment plant at Eastbourne Marine Treatment Works in order to help deal with a rapidly increasing population.

Northern Ireland
This £45M scheme was the most complex EU Urban Wastewater Treatment and EU Bathing Water Directive compliance scheme ever undertaken in Northern Ireland.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £1.2M project to make improvements, including an activated sludge plant, to the existing wastewater treatment works at Atherstone.

Scotland
This £6.8m scheme provided sewage treatment facilities to Tobermory on the Island of Mull for the first time. In addition the Biwater team also developed an innovative and sustainable 'Island Wide Sludge Strategy.'

Northern Ireland
This was a £10M project to provide Whitehouse waste water treatment works with a secondary treatment works and sludge thickening facilities.

Severn Trent Region
This was an £11.7M project to carry out improvements and asset renewals to sections of the existing waste water treatment works at Monkmoor.

North West
This was a £21.5M project to make improvements to Watchgate water treatment works as well as providing sludge treatment facilities.

Scotland
This was a £7.2M project entailing the design and construction of a wastewater treatment works at Rothesay on the West Coast of Scotland.

North West
This was a a £14M project to improve the quality of Oswestry WTW whilst maintaining the sites operability.

North West
The purpose of this £16M project was to reduce the risk of a cryptosporidium breakout and to increase the capacity of the Cumwhinton water treatment works.

Scotland
This was a £1.25M project to provide four different sites with septic tank and combined sewage overflow installations.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £3.1M project to replace part of the existing works at Codsall with a new four pocket Activated Sludge Plant as part of the Fisheries and River Quality Outfall Directives as well as an asset replacement requirement from Severn Trent.

North West
This was an £11M project to make improvements to Franklaw Water Treatment Works to ensure compliance with new Drinking Water Inspectorate guidelines.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £6.5M project designed to improve the existing WwTW at Hartshill in order to meet the new ammonia consent.

Scotland
This was a £3M project to provide the coastal community of Kames and Tighnabruaich with new wastewater collection and treatment facilities in order to comply with the requirements of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Regulations in Scotland.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £6.1M project to provide a new biological P-Removal process at Ledbury Sewage Treatment Works in order to meet UWWTD discharge consent figures.

Scotland
This was a £20M Joint Venture with George Leslie for the replacement of the wastewater treatment works at Johstone and Linwood with pumping stations.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £2.5M project to provide a new double oxidation ditch at Minsterley Sewage Treatment Works. It was acquired in order to to meet a tightening consent as part of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive.

Northern Ireland
This was a £9.1M project to replace the existing wastewater treatment processes at Ballyclare in order to comply with statutory requirements and to provide additional treatment capacity to satisfy population growth.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £5.1M project for the provision of a new Activated Sludge Plant to replace the existing secondary treatment at Packington wastewater treatment works.

Southern Region
This was a £3.2M scheme to provide a solution to high turbidity levels at Wichling pumping station. Completed against the backdrop of an extremely tight DWI consent the team worked across the whole of the Christmas and New Year break to reach the target date.

Scotland
This was a £4.5M project to provide new wastewater collection, transfer and treatment facilities in order to comply with the requirements of Urban Wastewater Treatment in Scotland.

Southern Region
This was a £3M project to provide a new water treatment plant to replace the existing iron removal plant at Goudhurst.

Southern Region
This was a £722,000 project entailing the construction of a potable water booster pumping station in the disused boiler house at Longham WTW.

Southern Region
This is a £14.9M scheme of enhancements at the existing wastewater treatment works in Mogden.

Scotland
This was an £8.3M project for a greenfield turnkey waste water treatment plant located on the west coast of Scotland.

Severn Trent Region
This was a £1.3M project to make improvements to the existing WwTW at Wheaton Aston in order to meet new effluent consent figures.

Southern Region
This was a £200,000 project to improve the quality of secondary treatment at Coverack STW as agreed by South West Water with the Environment Agency.

Anglian Region
Ensuring additional water resources for the Isleham supply zones

Anglian Region
Provision of a two-vessel solution each rated for 65MLD.

Anglian Region
This £1.1 million project was to provide an additional source of water to feed Marham supply zones

Anglian Region
This scheme forms part of the Anglian Water AMP4 supply and demand strategy.

Scotland
Biwater work with Scottish Water Waste Services providing solutions for solid waste

Severn Trent Region
£4m investment in the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant.

Severn Trent Region
Minworth Wastewater Treatment Works is the largest wastewater treatment plant in Severn Trent. This £125m investment included capital maintenance, along with an extensive programme of replacement, refurbishment and improvement to existing assets.

Severn Trent Region
Coleshill Wastewater Treatment Works (Main works including Inlet Works)

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit & Modular Deep Bed Filters

Severn Trent Region
Inlet Works

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing & Sludge Holding Capacity

Severn Trent Region
This project involved carrying out civil, mechanical and electrical asset renewal works within the Primary Settlement Tank area of Coleshill Sewage Treatment Works as part of an ongoing major enhancement and improvement scheme across the site.

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit & Washwater System

Severn Trent Region
Activated Sludge Plant/Biological Nutrient Removal

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit

Severn Trent Region
BNR Double Oxidation Ditch

Severn Trent Region
Under the urban wastewater treatment directive (UWWTD) and Crow Act (Countrywide and Rights of Way) works were required to have phosphate removed from the discharge. This was achieved by the construction of a Lintott Series 5 chemical dosing unit with 50 m³ of chemical storage with a duty/duty/standby dosing system.

Severn Trent Region
The scheme comprised replacing the existing inlet screens and screenings Handling equipment while retaining the existing civil channel and providing access steelwork to new equipment. A new washwater ring main was installed connecting to the existing ring main system.

Severn Trent Region
Lutterworth STW was been included in the AMP4 programme to meet a new consent of 20:45:5/10/2P/4Fe in line with the Crow Act (Countryside and Rights of Way).

Severn Trent Region
The scheme involved the construction of a new chemical dosing unit to dose aluminium sulphate upstream of the inlet works’ flow measurement flume to meet the 2 mg/l phosphorous consent imposed by the Crow Act (Countryside and Rights of Way).

Severn Trent Region
The project involved the installation of sandfilter in order to reduce the amount of suspended solids in the final effluent. These changes were necessary in order to meet the 20/30/10 mg/l consent in place.

Severn Trent Region
The project involved the installation of a chemical dosing system to dose ferric sulphate upstream of the primary settlement tanks in order to remove phosphorous.

Severn Trent Region
Shepshed sewage treatment works serves the town of Shepshed in North West Leicestershire. The works is a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP) with on site surplus activated sludge thickening and discharges to the Black Brook, which is a tributary of the River Soar.

Severn Trent Region
Wanlip STW is one of Severn Trent's major sites serving the Leicester area and surrounding satellite villages.

Severn Trent Region
Wanlip STW is one of Severn Trent’s major sites serving the Leicester area and surrounding satellite villages.

Severn Trent Region
Wanlip STW is one of Severn Trent’s major sites serving the Leicester area and surrounding satellite villages.

Severn Trent Region
The scheme consisted of the replacement of the existing sewage treatment works in the village of Winwick, Northamptonshire.

Severn Trent Region
The project involved the installation of a new tertiary treatment sandfilter and associated filter feed pumping station and motor control centre.

Severn Trent Region
Wanlip sewage treatment works is one of Severn Trent’s major sites serving the Leicester area and surrounding satellite villages.

Severn Trent Region
The project involved the construction of a Lintott Series 5 ferric sulphate chemical dosing unit with 5 m³ of chemical storage with a duty/duty/duty/duty/duty dosing system.

Severn Trent Region
Wanlip sewage treatment works is one of Severn Trent’s major sites serving the Leicester area and surrounding satellite villages.

Severn Trent Region
The project involved the construction of a Lintott Series 6 chemical dosing unit with 5m³ of chemical storage with a duty/standby dosing system.

Severn Trent Region
Barlestone sewage treatment works is located in the village of Barlestone, Leicestershire. The existing site was upgraded in order to meet a more stringent discharge consent. This was achieved by installing a tertiary treatment sandfilter to treat a portion of flows fed by the new sandfilter feed and recirculation pumping station.Barlestone sewage treatment works is located in the village of Barlestone, Leicestershire. The existing site was upgraded in order to meet a more stringent discharge c

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit and Additional Sludge Capacity

Severn Trent Region
The urban wastewater treatment directive UID required 61,000 m³ of additional storm tank capacity, this was achieved by the conversion of existing rectangular primary tanks.

Severn Trent Region
Minworth sewage treatment works (STW) is Severn Trent Water's largest plant which treats the sewage arising from a population equivalent of 1.75 million from Birmingham and the Black Country. The works treats the sludge arising from a population equivalent of 2.5 million which is made up of the works indigenous sludge, sludge transferred by pipeline from Coleshill STW and sludges imported from smaller treatment works sites in South Staffordshire and North Warwickshire. Industrial sludges are als

Severn Trent Region
The new inlet works was physically modelled to ensure optimum hydraulic performance to cope with the large flows and surges. 3-D modelling was used to design the steelwork platforms to ensure safe access to all equipment. It was used to minimise the interfaces between equipment which reduced site rework.

Severn Trent Region
The existing works consisted of 6 No ASP’s. An additional activated sludge plant 7 (ASP) was constructed for the biological nutrient removal (BNR) process in preparation for new drivers in AMP 5 with 1mg/l P-consent.

Severn Trent Region
Phase 1.1 Primary Tank Island: Minworth is Severn Trent’s largest sewage treatment works serving a population equivalent of 1.75 million from Birmingham.

Severn Trent Region
As part of the AMP4 scheme an extensive programme of capital maintenance was undertaken. Primary thickening sludge plant improvements were necessary to replace the centrifuge plant.

Severn Trent Region
An extensive programme of capital maintenance was undertaken. Twenty-four existing final settlement tank (FST) bridges were replaced and fitted with peripheral handrailing with fall arrest.

Severn Trent Region
As part of the AMP4 scheme an extensive programme of capital maintenance was undertaken. The liquor treatment plant was refurbished to improve the reliability and process performance.

Severn Trent Region
The upgrading of existing activated sludge Plant 1-6 consisting of twenty-four lanes.

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit

Severn Trent Region
Modular Deep Bed Filters

Severn Trent Region
Chemical Dosing Unit and Sand Filter