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'Water' way to win national award
Posted on 02/11/2009
Highways, Transportation & Waste Management
A landmark water recycling project has picked up a national green award.
'Living Water’ near Billesdon won the accolade at the prestigious Highways Magazine Excellence Awards in London at the end of October.
Waste water which washes off roads contains dirt and vehicle oil and would normally be sent to landfill.
At the innovative County Council facility, this is purified and filtered back into a specially created lake which now forms a popular public amenity area at Billesdon.
The County Council maintains more than 100,000 roadside gullies which collect nearly three million litres of waste water each year.
Professor Mike Preston, Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Action, said: "We have been using the Billesdon facility since 2004 and were one of the first in the country to use this technology to treatment contaminated gully water.
“Many other councils have visited us with a view to installing something similar in their own areas.
"Living Water significantly reduces the quantity of contaminated waste material that has to be sent to landfill and provides us with ‘safe’ tipping facilities.
“Through the re-use of water in wetland and marsh areas, it also supports the local Billesdon community and encourages the development of wildlife.”
The treatment process at Billesdon does not rely on any energy to make it work as gravity provides most of the push.
For more information on the Living Water facility, visit: www.leics.gov.uk/roadwater
Notes:
Living Water won the ‘Environmental Sustainability in the Highways Sector’ award at the Highways Magazine Excellence Awards held on 22nd October at the Millennium Hotel, Mayfair, London.
More information about the Excellence Awards is available at: www.hmea.co.uk