Failure at the pump and treatment plant in Hraunavík
A fault has occurred in the sewage pumps at the City of Hafnarfjörður's pumping and treatment station in Hraunavík today. According to those on site, repairs will take a maximum of one to two days. The council's Environmental Health Department was notified of the fault as soon as it was discovered and it became clear what action needed to be taken.
A fault has occurred in the drainage
pumps at the City of Hafnarfjörður's pumping and purification station in Hraunavík today. After inspection
It was clear that it was not safe to run the station's cleaning equipment at full
be temporarily diverted while repairs are carried out. Some of the sewage from the station will, from now on
These clocks run past the system and straight out to sea through
a two-kilometre-long outfall pipe into the sea. The repair will take a day and a night or
two at the most, according to those on the ground. Health inspection
The town was alerted to the fault as soon as it was detected and its nature became clear.
what measures needed to be taken.
Response
Crews are at work at the station and will not stop until the repair is complete. Residents
you might notice birds gathering at the outflow while
The situation is like this, but no sea bathing takes place in these areas, so
Residents will therefore not notice the fault otherwise.
More about
the station in Hraunavík: Construction of the station was completed in 2007 and
was she then taken into use. In the purification plant, all sewage from the town of Hafnarfjörður
cleaned with primary filtration. This involves removing all solids (sludge) larger than 3
mm in diameter are filtered from the sewage in two coarse filters (stage filters). In addition,
Grease and sand are separated from the sewage. All grit and sand is collected in a special container.
a container, which is regularly emptied at a special landfill site. The fat is collected in
a special compartment in the station and the fat is then pumped from there into special tankers, is
then dispose of the fat at a special landfill.
After this purification, the sewage is then pumped into the sea for about 2 km
a long discharge pipe down to a depth of about 23 m. There the sea takes over and destroys or
dilutes the sewage quite quickly, so that the concentration of pollutants from
The discharge is well within the environmental limits for the coastline, as required.
regulations.