The Coastal Community of Tarbert, which is located on the East Coast of Kintyre at the head of East Loch Tarbert on Loch Fyne, had been identified by Scottish Water as requiring new wastewater collection, transfer and treatment facilities in order to comply with the requirements of the Urban Wastewater Treatment in Scotland.

The project included:

• a collection and transfer system with a combination of new gravity sewers, rising mains, existing infrastructure, existing pumping stations and three new wastewater pumping stations.
• inlet screens
• 2 primary settlement tanks
• sludge tank
• works liquor return pumping station
• odour control unit
• long sea outfall into Loch Fyne
• potable water booster station

Mechanical Equipment:

• new satellite pumping stations
• new transfer pumping station
• 1 No combined 6mm mesh screen and grit removal system with integral screenings washing
• Penstocks
• hand rake screen and trough
• 2 No rotating half bridge scraper bridges
• 1 No sludge holding tank
• 1 No washwater booster set package
• 1 No odour control unit