Each tank is about 1,000 gallons, and is constructed as a pond with transparent walls. A variety of emergent plants grow in these tanks, along with snails, fish, and numerous microorganisms. A bubbler in each tank keeps the room odor free and the animals healthy. After solar tank treatment, the flow moves to a clarifier where settleable solids are recycled or wasted. The addition of methanol encourages bacterial growth which effects denitrification to below 1 ppm.
Final disinfection is by ultra-violet irradiation.
The flow is measured and then goes to a leaching field through a dosing chamber. As an extra option, we have arranged the marsh in true jungle fashion, with banana trees, flowers, a parrot flying free, numerous turtles, fountains and even a daily monsoon, complete with sound effects. It is not your average wastewater treatment plant.