Restaurants and Adventure Tourist Facilities

Mix bus loads of tourists (with the associated queue at the toilets), with the food preparation and washing up, a safe well managed sewage treatment and disposal system is a must.  Dave has perfected a treatment process to store the peak wastewater volumes and treat the sewage over an extended time.

This significantly reduces both the costs and land area required for effluent disposal.  Dave has been invited to present a paper at national wastewater conferences on this treatment process and he is a leader in this field of expertise.

Site:	Roadside restaurant/cafe on State Highway 1 south of Taihape.
Wastewater Volume:	15,000 litres per day
Wastewater Design: More Photos >	This facility was opened by the Minister of the Environment - Rt. Honorable Dennis Marshall who commended the proprietors Janet and Dianne, on the extra expense Flat Hills had gone to, to provide an environmentally friendly restaurant/cafe. Dave designed and supervised the installation of a Low Pressure Effluent Dosing (LPED) system incorporating automatic sequencing valves to alternately dose 1200 metres of LPED trenches in the disposal area.

Site:	Mokai (just south of Taihape)
Wastewater Volume:	Up to 5000 litres per day
Wastewater Design:	On this very restricted site space is at a premium.  With busloads of tourists arriving (and being scared sh..less) the ablution facilities get a real workout.  Dave designed an advanced secondary treatment system with the effluent being trickle irrigated into the garden areas around the café. The system is designed so it can be extended in modular form with minimum excavation and disruption as the facility expands.