Wastewater Treatment in a Hotel Setting: Key Considerations
Across the globe, the hotel industry is booming. Travel remains an incredibly popular pursuit, with tourists flocking to urban areas as well as more rural and suburban locales throughout the world. Naturally, every hotel management team desires to create an optimal guest experience, ensuring the kinds of comfort and convenience that allow them to maintain a competitive edge.
There are many obvious aspects to creating a great hotel experience, from spacious rooms to robust room service options, but one aspect that may be less obvious is wastewater treatment. Simply put, hotels need to have a functional and effective wastewater treatment system to ensure the comfort of their guests as well as to maintain compliance with local environmental statutes.
Key Considerations for Hotel Wastewater Treatment
As hotel managers think about their options for wastewater management, a few factors should be top-of-mind.
The Purity of Natural Water Sources
If a wastewater treatment system somehow leads to pollution or contamination of local, natural water systems, that could be both an ecological disaster and a PR nightmare for the hotel. Thankfully, if a septic system is properly installed and well-maintained, there is little risk of a contamination issue, even if the system is giving some trouble. Still, repairing a septic system can be costly, and will need to be done quickly to ensure continued quality-of-life at the hotel. For this reason, it’s usually smarter to invest in a more state-of-the-art wastewater treatment system.
Different Types of System
That raises a question: What types of wastewater treatment system can a hotel management team choose from? There are a number of options, and also several determinative factors:
- How many rooms/wastewater-generating units are at the hotel?
- What’s the daily wastewater volume?
- What are the peak volumes both on-season and off?
Based on these factors, hotels may find that chemical-based or UV-based systems serve them well, offering long-term and cost-effective wastewater treatment solutions.
Installation
When it comes to installation of a new system, there are a few things to consider.
- Make sure the quality of the effluent is going to meet local environmental standards.
- Check to see if your municipality requires you to have a permit to discharge hotel wastewater.
- Talk with your installation team about the most effective location for placing your new system. Beyond size/capacity, location is one of the most important factors for determining the efficiency of a wastewater treatment system.
- Remember that grease and oil from your hotel kitchen can clog your wastewater system causing it to break down prematurely. A grease trap is essential for avoiding this costly and cumbersome issue.
Explore the Options for Hotel Wastewater Treatment
The bottom line: Wastewater treatment is a key consideration for hotels, both for guest experience reasons and for environmental reasons. To find out more about different wastewater treatment options, why not contact the experts? Reach out to PHS today to ask about our decades of experience in the industry, and about our excellent options for wastewater management technology.