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ABS Home Owner
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2. WHAT IS A HOME SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (HSTP)?
Also known as an Aerated Wastewater Treatment System (AWTS).Aerobic Treatment
Unit (ATU) or a Secondary Treatment System (STS).
A HSTP is a tank that contains and treats all of the waste water generated from your
home.
This means you can have all the advantages of mains sewerage, even when there is
none
– full flush toilets, installation of a washing machine and dishwasher, multiple baths
and showers, hand basins, en-suite to the master bedroom, a family bathroom as well
as a guests toilet and hand basin
– and ALL THE WATER YOU USE IN THE HOME IS
AUTOMATICALLY RE-USED IN YOUR GARDEN.
It is your own mini sewage treatment plant.
3. HOW DOES A HSTP WORK?
The wastewater from your home contains numerous types of living bacteria. Some of
these bacteria use our waste products as a food source while others use these waste
eating bacteria as their food source.
This process is natural and is just how nature intended it to be. When the wastewater is
supplied with oxygen, these natural bacteria double their numbers every 8 hours until
there are literally billions of them living in the tank, automatically reducing the wastes to
a non- polluting liquid
– reclaimed water
