Treatment of surface runoff from port hydraulic structures

Surface runoff in seaports is known to be the great danger to their waters. Contaminants entering the surface runoff are mainly formed at berthing facilities exposed to the negative effects of various types of vehicles, technological equipment and transferred cargoes. Since in the scientific literature there is no description of any approaches to the processes of formation, collection, removal and treatment of surface runoff from the port hydraulic structures their development is currently very relevant. The sorption-filtration technologies are considered to be the most effective and convenient applied in seaports among the most widely used types of surface runoff treatment facilities. The cost-effective operation with large amounts of sorption-filtration materials required for the effective integrated treatment of large volumes of surface runoff is achieved by the means of indus-trial cartridge-containers (filter cartridges). The use of multi-stage treatment facilities based on the standard sewage wells and the FOPS filters is provided to be the most scientifically and practically developed technology. The used FOPS filters are disposed at waste disposal sites as the IV class hazard waste.