Wastewater treatment works
Wastewater treatment works: the facilities that treat sewage before it returns to a river or the sea, with treatment stage, capacity in population equivalent and operator.
Beckton sewage treatment works
The largest wastewater treatment works in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe, treating the sewage of a large part of north and east London.
- Operator
- Thames Water
- Population equivalent served
- approximately 3.5 million
- Location
- East London, on the tidal Thames
- Processes
- Preliminary, primary, activated sludge secondary treatment, sludge digestion and incineration