From Yorkshire Water

The first nature-based wastewater treatment in Yorkshire has been completed at Yorkshire Water’s Clifton wastewater treatment works near Doncaster where sustainable wastewater treatment is now underway after the planting of 20,000 wetland plants.

The site has been transformed into an integrated constructed wetland, with the clay in the ponds and the plants naturally removing phosphorus from treated wastewater before it is returned to the environment.

The wetland ponds will provide the only wastewater treatment on site – the first of its kind in Yorkshire – as a trial to monitor nature-based treatment processes.

An area of interconnected ponds approximately the size of three Olympic swimming pools have been planted as part of the project.