WPL wins three supplier frameworks for treatment plant hire and purchase.
WPL has won three supplier framework contracts for wastewater treatment plant and equipment with public utility Scottish Water. The contracts cover both hire and purchase agreements and the first hire plant has already been installed at Winchburgh, a fast-growing £1 billion residential development 11 miles west of Edinburgh.
The 3,000 population of Winchburgh is expected to grow to 8,243 by 2023 and 14,000 by 2032 and consequently Scottish Water require a five-year intermediate wastewater treatment plan to reduce loading on the existing trickling filters and prevent overload at the site as more properties come on-stream.
The modular nature of WPL's submerged aeration filter (SAF) packaged treatment plants is particularly suited to this application as new SAF units can be added year-on-year in a rolling programme of expansion. As part of Scottish Water's five-year supplier framework agreement, WPL won an initial hire contract to supply a WPL T1000 steel SAF and WPL Lamella Separator.
Andrew Haywood, utility and industrial sales manager, WPL says, "Scottish Water selected WPL because it needed a company that could respond quickly to the fast-growing demand at Winchburgh. A key requirement of the project was rapid turnaround.