Patent ID: 6998038

Claim:
A system for removing material from a flowing liquid, the system comprising: a housing; one or more cartridges disposed in the housing, wherein each cartridge has an outer permeable wall and an inner permeable wall that form a media region between the walls, wherein a media is disposed within at least part of the media region to remove at least a portion of the material from the flowing liquid, said one or more cartridges also having an inner cartridge lumen in fluid communication with said inner permeable wall, and a cartridge outlet in fluid communication with the inner cartridge lumen; a cartridge chamber disposed in the housing having a treatment region that houses the one or more cartridges, wherein the cartridge chamber is bounded by a chamber floor and an end wall that defines a sediment capture region, and wherein the cartridge chamber also includes a chamber inlet to accept the flowing liquid, a chamber outlet that passes through the end wall to discharge treated liquid, and a conduit positioned above the floor that extends from the one or more cartridges to the outlet; and a support elevated above the floor of the cartridge chamber by legs and an hinged mount attached to a side wall of the chamber to laterally stabilize the one or more cartridges in the chamber, wherein at least a portion of sediment coming into the chamber through the inlet is deposited in the sediment capture region, and wherein said support may be swung to a position permitting cleaning of sediment from the floor.