Up-Flo® Filter
A flexible, high-performance treatment solution
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MAINTENANCE GUIDE
What is an Up-Flo Filter?
The Up-Flo Filter is an advanced stormwater treatment system that combines sedimentation, screening, and filtration to remove sediments, oils, heavy metals, and nutrients from runoff.
It achieves up to 98% Total Suspended Solids (TSS) removal, making it one of the most effective BMPs (Best Management Practices) available.
Designed for efficiency, durability, and easy maintenance, the Up-Flo Filter offers high loading rates and long media life, reducing the frequency of servicing. Its flexible, modular design allows it to be customized to meet US National Permit Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) requirements, ensuring compliance with municipal and state regulations.
Approved for 80% TSS removal by Washington (TAPE)
Verified removal of 80% TSS by NJCAT, Approved for use by NJDEP and Washington (TAPE)
Key Benefits
Deliver exceptional treatment on any catchment
The Up-Flo® Filter's modular filtration components allow you to adapt your design to meet the needs of any catchment area, capturing the specific levels of trash, silt and sediment, oils, metals and nutrients required.
Get two-stage treatment in a single unit
The Up-Flo® Filter's modular filtration components allow you to adapt your design to meet the needs of any catchment area, capturing the specific levels of trash, silt and sediment, oils, metals and nutrients required.
Save site space
The Up-Flo® Filter's higher loading rates result in a smaller treatment footprint, which saves construction time and money, and makes for an easier installation.
Cut maintenance
No moving parts means that there’s less opportunity for treatment disruption or breakage, while the system design is suited to long-term maintenance. Longer media life means you can go longer between service, and media bags are easily removed and replaced while media cartridge modules stay put during maintenance.
How it works?
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Stormwater enters the chamber via an inlet pipe or inlet grate and fills the chamber, as flow is directed up through the angled screen and Filter Modules.
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Trash, gross debris and sediment settle out in the sump. Oil and floatables rise to the surface of the water.
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Treated water flows out of the Filter Module to the Outlet Module and into the outlet pipe.
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Excess flows are discharged to the outlet using a Siphonic Bypass, which also acts as a floatables baffle preventing the escape of oil and floatable trash.
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To guard against pollutant leaching and filter media degradation between storm events, water drains out of the chamber through the filtered Drain Down Port as the storm subsides.
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Applications
The Up-Flo® Filter is perfectly suited to industrial sites, locations contributing runoff to wetlands/protected regions, or any area requiring a high level of treatment.
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Remove solids, nutrients and metals from runoff
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Source control for redevelopment or new construction
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Treatment of Water Quality Volume detention systems
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Sites operating under industrial or multi-sector general permits
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Low-impact development (LID), sustainable drainage (SuDS), LEED® and water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) projects