European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-603
  • fiwar:
    LIFE95 ENV/E/000692
  • Project_Acronym:
    No data
  • Project_Name:
    Pollution reduction on urban rivers produced by waste on rain and sewage water (pilot project for Mediterrean rivers)
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Environment
  • Focus Area:
    River basin management
  • Begin Date:
    1995-04-01
  • End Date:
    1997-10-01
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    No data
  • Description:
    This project consists of computer and operative monitoring of drain overflow during storms. The design, which has not yet been tested or applied anywhere in the European Union, has two components : computer monitoring and operative control. In this way, the design helps to analyse water pollution and rainfall levels on the one hand (through computer monitoring) and also apply the corrective measures on the other (operative control). This would help to reduce the ensuing pollution from this overflow, particularly the first rain which washes the streets and flushes drains, and thus has the heaviest pollution levels. The operative solution is a complete innovation. It consists of installing retainer sluice gates in the drainage system. This makes use of the holding capacity of the system itself to retain the first heavily polluted storm water, and then sends the controlled flow to the waste water treatment plants. The sluice gates require a system of computer control that optimises and regulates the opening and closing strategies to avoid running the risk of flooding the affected zones. The complexity of the project resides in the correct working and co-ordination of both the measurement systems and the opening and closing of the sluice gates. These low-cost experimental corrective measures consist of a sliding sluice gate prototype with vertical movement. It temporarily holds back the storm water in its limited derivation to the conventional treatment plant, making use of the on-line storage capacity of the line drain network itself, and thus subsequently feeds the water into the treatment plant without producing an overload.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE95-ENV-E-000692/pollution-reduction-on-urban-rivers-produced-by-waste-on-rain-and-sewage-water-pilot-project-for-mediterrean-rivers
  • Inland water types:
    Urban water'