Wastewater Treatment on a Craggy Rock in the Ocean

A lighthouse island off Maine’s wild coastline was a forbidding setting to provide an effective onsite system for a bed-and-breakfast inn.
Wastewater Treatment on a Craggy Rock in the Ocean
White bags hold dirt ready to be spread across the rocky island where the Cuckolds Islands lighthouse sits off the coast of Maine. The shed at left was a boathouse and was repurposed to hold the BUSSE membrane bioreactors.

A single entry on the permit form summed up the challenge of the project — Type replaced: Overboard discharge. Year installed: 1892.

Things have changed between 1892 and now. Modern codes would not allow a pipe to dump untreated wastewater into the Atlantic Ocean for a new...

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