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Sewage Treatment Plant Installation in Ludlow
Design and installation of package sewage treatment plants for homes and small businesses, including upgrades from non-compliant septic tanks. Serving Ludlow and the surrounding villages, including Bromfield, Caynham, Ashford Carbonel, Clee Hill.
A package sewage treatment plant treats waste water to a far higher standard than a septic tank, clean enough that the treated effluent may legally discharge to a watercourse as well as to ground. For many rural Shropshire properties, especially those on heavy clay where soakaways struggle, a treatment plant is now the most practical route to a compliant system.
The valleys around Ludlow explain most of its treatment plant installations: the Teme, the Corve and the Ledwyche Brook drain the district, all watercourses the Environment Agency cares about, and plenty of older tanks in these valleys were piped to a brook in a previous era. That arrangement now requires an upgrade, and a treatment plant with a compliant treated discharge is the usual answer — particularly on Clee Hill ground where rock sits too near the surface for a drainage field.
Outside Ludlow itself, off-mains is simply how south Shropshire works. The Corvedale, the Clee slopes and the Teme valley are dotted with properties on private systems, many of them older installations that predate modern standards, and a good number still arranged in ways the 2020 rules no longer allow.
Ground conditions around Ludlow
South Shropshire’s geology is old and varied. Around Ludlow you move between river valley soils along the Teme and Corve, heavier ground in the vales, and thin stony soils on the Clee Hills, where depth to rock can be the limiting factor for a drainage field rather than percolation alone.
Watercourses and the rules around Ludlow
The Teme, the Corve and the Ledwyche Brook drain the district, all watercourses the Environment Agency cares about. Plenty of older tanks in these valleys were piped to a brook or ditch in a previous era, precisely the arrangement that now has to be upgraded to a treatment plant or drainage field.
What the service includes
- Plant sizing based on bedrooms and occupancy, not guesswork
- Supply and installation of plants certified to EN 12566-3
- Upgrades from failed or non-compliant septic tanks, including tank decommissioning
- Drainage field or watercourse discharge arrangements that meet the General Binding Rules
- Electrical connection, commissioning and handover
- Ongoing annual servicing once the plant is in
Around Ludlow
As well as Ludlow itself, the surrounding villages and farms are covered, including Bromfield, Caynham, Ashford Carbonel, Clee Hill, Richard’s Castle, Stanton Lacy, Culmington, Burford. If you are somewhere smaller or somewhere between, get in touch anyway.
Common questions about sewage treatment plant installation
What is the difference between a septic tank and a treatment plant? Do treatment plants smell or make noise? These and more are answered on the main service page.
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