Improved risk assessment for strategic water management to reduce micro-pollutant emissions in the Baltic Sea Region
APRIORA tackles the need for a risk-based prioritisation of quaternary treatment at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) to mitigate emission of micro-pollutants with focus on active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Since WWTPs are the main emission pathway to the environment, the new proposal for Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (UWWTD) demands a mandatory quaternary treatment to be implemented in all WWTP > 100.000 PE until 2030 and a risk-based prioritisation of advanced treatment for WWTP between 10.000-100.000 PE. Accordingly, regional environmental protection authorities (EPAs) in charge will have to prioritize risks and propose cost-effective mitigation measures for future investments in cooperation with WWTP operators. However, both target groups lack sufficient information, capacities and tools to do so: API emissions from WWTPs are not measured, concentrations in surface waters are only available on few selected monitoring sites; no consistent tools for the demanded risk assessment (RA) or à priori effect assessment of potential mitigation measures exist. APRIORA addresses these deficits by providing a RA capacity program (1) combining effective monitoring, modelling and multi-criterial RA, an (2) open-source GIS environment, and (3) a capacity building programme to apply (1) + (2) in everyday working practices. Along with BSR-wide transfer + training activities, APRIORA contributes to an efficient strategic water management that improves the state of BSR waters.
Details
- Project's acronym:
- APRIORA
- Financial Program Name:
- European Territorial Cooperation 2021-2027
- Organization:
- Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein (IB.SH)
- Realisation period:
- unknown - unknown
- Research team leader:
- prof. dr hab. inż. Aneta Łuczkiewicz
- Realised in:
- Department of Environmental Engineering Technology
- External institutions
participating in project: -
- Regional EPA Mecklenburg/Vorpommern (Germany)
- Kristianstad University (MoLab) (Sweden)
- Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (Lithuania)
- Finish Environment Institute SYKE (Finland)
- University of Rostock (Germany)
- ransport the Environment in South Ostrobothnia (Finland)
- German Environment Agency (Germany)
- ELY Centres (Finland)
- Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre (Lithuania)
- Request type:
- European Founds
- Domestic:
- Domestic project
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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