Chatham University Eden Hall Campus Master Plan, Water Balance, and Wastewater Treatment

Chatham’s new Eden Hall campus is becoming a model of sustainability learning in higher education and features innovative ecological water recycling technologies.

Biohabitats worked with the team of BNIM, Andropogon Associates, Civil and Engineering Consultants (CEC), and Interface to create Chatham University’s Eden Hall campus master plan. Biohabitats created an extensive water balance for the campus and applied an innovative water infrastructure approach that examined the integration of natural wastewater treatment and rainwater harvesting.

Working with Mithun and CEC, Biohabitats engineered and permitted the advanced natural wastewater treatment systems. The high-quality reclaimed effluent is reused to supply 100% of the project’s toilet flushing demand. Any excess unused effluent is slowly and safely dispersed back into the soil through subsurface irrigation systems.