Patent ID: 7582216
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: C02F,E03F

Abstract:
1. A water treatment system comprising: a system inlet adapted to receive a fluid flow; a first system outlet; a treatment chamber having a treatment chamber inlet in fluid communication with the system inlet and a treatment chamber outlet in fluid communication with the first system outlet, the treatment chamber providing a fluid passage from the treatment chamber inlet to the treatment chamber outlet and being adapted to remove one or more contaminants from the fluid flow; a second system outlet separated from the system inlet by a weir, the weir being adapted to prevent the fluid flow from passing into the second system outlet when the fluid flow is below a predetermined height, and allow at least a portion of the fluid flow to pass, untreated, into the second system outlet without passing through the treatment chamber when the fluid flow is above a predetermined height; wherein the second system outlet is isolated from the first system outlet such that fluid passing through the second system outlet in such a manner as to flow back up into the treatment chamber outlet has been inserted can not impinge upon the treatment chamber outlet.