Description du projet
Des outils innovants pour traiter les eaux de ruissellement urbaines
L’efficacité des infrastructures de traitement des eaux usées urbaines à l’heure de protéger les eaux douces en Europe est compromise par les déversoirs d’orage, notamment le ruissellement de surface urbain et les surcharges des réseaux d’égouts unitaires, qui déversent d’importantes charges polluantes dans l’environnement aquatique. Il est nécessaire de trouver nouveaux moyens de réduire efficacement la pollution provenant des eaux de ruissellement urbaines et des déversoirs d’orage. Le projet StopUP, financé par l’UE, déterminera le cheminement des polluants dans les bassins versants urbains afin de proposer des interventions ciblées. Le projet mettra en œuvre des concepts de contrôle avancés, des capteurs en ligne, ainsi que le traitement et l’analyse des données afin d’enrichir les connaissances sur les polluants. En outre, il mettra au point et testera des technologies innovantes de prévention de la pollution et créera des outils à l’appui de la sélection et la mise en œuvre de mesures d’atténuation des polluants.
Objectif
Major progress has been achieved in protecting European freshwaters through the successful implementation of urban wastewater treatment infrastructures but significant pressures still pose threats to the quality of the receiving water bodies. The recent evaluation of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive underlined that, in particular stormwater overflows including urban surface run-off and combined sewer overflows bring relevant pollutant loads into the aquatic environment. The pressure on water resources from those kinds of emissions is expected to aggravate through the impacts of global climate change with more frequent intense precipitation as well as more pronounced drought conditions. To address those challenges new ways in effectively mitigating pollution arising from urban run-off and sewer overflows are needed, providing effective load reduction, in a way affordable as well as acceptable to end-users and the society. The StopUP project will elucidate pollution pathways in urban catchments to enable targeted interventions through measures at source, retention and treatment. It will foster knowledge about emissions incl. pollutant release, transport and receiving water bodies through advanced monitoring concepts, online sensors and data processing and analysis. In the context of different case studies, innovative technologies for pollution prevention such as advanced retention soil filters for combined sewer overflow treatment which can be integrated better in urban areas will be further developed and tested. The tests will demonstrate integrated solutions including monitoring, treatment and control of diffusive pollution in different contexts concerning geographic, climatic and hydrological as well as socio-economic settings. Based on the findings, tools to support selection, implementation and operation of pollutant mitigation measures for end-users including environmental authorities, water boards/utilities, consultancies will be derived.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing
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Régime de financement
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
52062 Aachen
Allemagne