ProCaribe and social responsibility

Water Treatmen

 

ProCaribe is a 100% Mexican owned company specializing in building homes. Committed to the sustainable and orderly development of the new municipality of Tulum, we offer our customers the best technology for the management of their wastewater.

To better understand the importance, let’s look at the following questions

• What is a wastewater treatment plant?
• Why use a wastewater treatment plant and not a septic tank?
• What advantages does it offer over a septic tank?

A wastewater treatment plant, as its name suggests, is a system which collects and handles sewage and transforms it into cleaner water. These systems are usually used in cities and population centers for the reuse of the sewage produced by the community, transforming it to provide water for agriculture, industry and other activities.

At ProCaribe we apply the same technology but on a smaller scale for dwellings. The traditional way of storing the wastewater  of a house is by using a septic tank which is a large pit or hole made in the land with solid coated walls to store sewage. Septic tanks can also be prefabricated with the same function of storing water. When it is full the pit is emptied by a pump or is sent directly to an absorption pit or wetland.

After understanding the difference between a septic tank and treatment plant, with the septic tank releasing  the sewage into the ground and the water plant cleaning and reusing the water, we can see importance of including a residential water treatment plant to prevent contaminating the underground water table, the very place where we extract the water for our daily use for showering and cleaning.

As Tulum sits directly above one of the largest underground rivers in the world it is very important to care for it , which is why ProCaribe recommendeds avoiding the use of a traditional septic tank system, and adding a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) AREP. WWTP AREP is a treatment system that produces no sludge or fetid smell.

•     They are prefabricated.
•     They are made of durable long lasting fiberglass.
•     They are small.
•     They are efficient.
•     They are inexpensive.
•     They are easy to install.
•     They require zero maintenance.

 "If you treat your wastewater bad, it will treat you worse"