Wastewater Treatment
Natural Systems Utilities implements wastewater treatment systems consisting of collection (typically small diameter), treatment, and disposal. Our wastewater systems deploy on-site bioregenerative wetlands and other nature-based and biomimicry solutions.
Treatment wetlands and other nature-based technologies are at the heart of the wastewater treatment component of NSU’s designs. Whenever possible, NSU’s systems harness the natural processes involving sun, wind, wetland vegetation, soils, and their associated microbial assemblages to assist in treating wastewater. We design our systems to take advantage of many of the same filtration and metabolic cycles that have evolved in natural wetlands. NSU deploys these ecologies within a more controlled environment in which we can intensify or accelerate their biological efficacy to convert waste streams into benign natural by-products, often enhancing the local habitat.
Treatment wetlands can be designed in a variety of configurations and with various augmentation technologies, some of which are exclusive to NSU’s engineering partners. NSU considers numerous factors and site conditions, including topology, soil conditions, hydraulic load, and land availability as well as reuse opportunities in order to design the most feasible and sustainable water infrastructure. As a result, NSU can use land to a greater or lesser extent, depending on its availability within the project. In all cases, these natural systems technologies are integrated openly as a landscape asset of the master plan, providing both living infrastructure and community green space.