HOW TO TREAT WASTEWATER FOR FLOATING RESORTS IN SEA TOURISM
Sieu Chung Ky – Floating houses or floating resorts in marine ecotourism areas is a trend in the world. It attracts a lot of tourists to experience it because of its adventure, romance, and feeling like in paradise.
However, the problem of technical solutions causes many architects and investors headaches. It’s the treatment of domestic wastewater for resorts or floating houses. So how to handle it on the spot while still ensuring aesthetics and saving the environment? Will the waste be used to raise fish on-site or must it be transported to the mainland?
To answer these questions, Architect. Tran Ngoc Hung (Houston, USA) shared:
“In the US, people will use floating houses (Honey pot macerator) to store sanitary wastewater, then puree it, pump it up the city’s connecting pipe and send it to the city about the treatment plant.”
Honey pot macerator is a compact apparatus mounted underneath the floating house. The red part at the bottom has the function of grinding waste.
The process of transporting wastewater to the city needs to ensure that the pipe system does not leak and that rainwater does not enter the sanitary sewage system (because the roots of the trees cause the pipes to crack.)
If the floating house is too far from the wastewater treatment plant, they will use the sewage pump to store it in it (Septic tank, like a septic tank in Vietnam). They use automatic pumps, diffuser pumps, and spread the filtered water to a separate area of grass only.
Often places far from the wastewater treatment plant will not have a water supply system but must use pump wells. The radius of injection place for a septic tank (as Houston law, USA) must be at least 30-45m from the well to ensure the safety of well water.
Architects. Ngoc Hung added:
“It is a preliminary way to treat wastewater for floating houses of advanced countries to ensure the beauty of marine ecotourism as well as not affect the natural environment.”
These particular tourist facilities tend to use 24 volts of pumps. The reason is that submersion in water is less dangerous than 110 volts. If you put the pump in the septic tank, there is no problem.
This is a new convenient product because there is no need to punch the concrete floor to place the drain pipe. Above all, we can add “floating toilets” anywhere in the building, whether it is a house or an eco-tourism area.
(According to Fudozon)
