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 Community
- Organization:
- Ministerstwo Rozwoju Regionalnego
- Agreement:
- PROGRAMME 2021-2027 z dnia 2023-11-01
- Realisation period:
- 2023-11-01 - 2026-10-31
- Research team leader:
- dr hab. inż. Aneta Łuczkiewicz
- Team members:
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- researcher dr hab. inż. Sylwia Fudala-Książek
- researcher dr inż. Małgorzata Szopińska
- researcher dr inż. Wojciech Artichowicz
- vice Leader dr inż. Filip Gamoń
- Realised in:
- University of Rostock
- External institutions
participating in project: -
- University of Rostock (Germany)
- German Environment Agency (Germany)
- Finnish Medicines Agency Fimea (Finland)
- The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (Finland)
- Finnish Environment Institute (Finland)
- Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (Lithuania)
- Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre (Lithuania)
- Kristianstad University (Sweden)
- Project's value:
- 2 400 000.00 EUR
- Request type:
- European Founds
- Domestic:
- International project
- Verified by:
- No verification
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