Hydro-variant baffle cartridge system
AssigneeOldcastle Infrastructure, Inc.
InventorTom Happel
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Abstract
Stormwater pollution prevention systems, vaults, boxes, and methods of treatment systems to capture pollutants from storm water runoff and prevent the conveyance of these pollutants from entering a receiving water body or landscape area. The systems can be part of a local permanent storm water drainage infrastructure, where the system combines both drainage conveyance, multi-level treatment techniques, variable hydraulic capabilities, and easy and inexpensive methods for servicing the systems. The systems can use cartridges, each having either a treatment media or treatment polymer inside, wherein the cartridges can be serviced without requiring anyone to enter into a treatment vault/box.
Claims20
A stormwater pollution prevention system, comprising:
- a floating skimmer having a float that extends across and along a top of a panel, the panel having outer side edges being slidably mounted in tracks along opposite sides of a water treatment box, wherein the floating skimmer panel rises from adjacent to and above a top of a first baffle wall in the water treatment box;
- an opening in said first baffle wall adjacent to a static waterline and below said skimmer in the water treatment box;
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- a removable cartridge on the outlet side of the baffle opening covering an outlet side of the baffle opening, wherein the removable cartridge provides for treating pollutants passing though the opening in the baffle.
A stormwater treatment system, comprising:
- a floating skimmer with at least one float extending across a top of a vertical flat panel, the panel having outer side edges being slidably mounted in tracks along opposite sides of a water treatment box, wherein the floating skimmer panel rises from adjacent to and above a top of a baffle in the water treatment box;
- at least one horizontal opening in the baffle below a static waterline and below said skimmer in the water treatment box;
- a pair of parallel tracks covering each of the baffle openings on an outlet side of the baffle;
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- at least one removable cartridge, each cartridge sliding in each pair of the tracks, wherein the at least one removable cartridge provides for treating pollutants passing though the opening in the baffle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.