FAQ's

1. How much does a typical Solar Aquatics installation cost?
Price depends on the size and density of the population being served, but all construction materials can be readily obtained from local vendors and local flora and fauna are used.  

2. How resilient and reliable is Solar Aquatics?
No facility has ever been "down" due to "poisoning" from toxic materials, and a plant in Providence, R.I. continued to operate with no damage during Hurricane Bob in 1991.

3. What are the maintenance requirements of an installation?
Facilities are typically manned two to eight hours per day during the week. Maintenance of vegetation requires 2% to 3% of staff time and 8% to 10% during the three summer months.

4. What expertise is required to operate an installation?
A high school graduate familiar with the equipment can operate an installation and no special qualifications are required.

5. How is odour controlled?
Odour in receiving/headworks facilities is controlled by venting through an earth filter and is controlled naturally through vegetation  in the greenhouse where there is no odour.

6. Can solar aquatics be used to treat industrial wastewater?
Solar Aquatics meets regulatory approvals for
sewage, septage, food processing and boat waste, polishing treated sewage and other industrial waste.

7. How "pure" is the water released in the process?
Water discharged from a Solar Aquatics system is not potable but meets and often exceeds regulatory requirements.

8. What happens to an overflow?
As with all sewage treatment systems the facilities are designed with an emergency overflow bypass.