Combined Sewer Overflow

Merone, Italy


Key Facts

  • Technology: Aerated + free water surface wetland
  • Challenge addressed: Sewer systems unable to cope with and extreme rain events; climate adaptation
  • Main innovation: Increase urban resilience to extreme events, reduce pressure on sewers; new NBSWT market opportunities

Environmental &

Socio-economic impacts

There are more than 5,000 Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) networks in the local province that need a technical upgrade. The direct effects of a wide application of NBSWT on the water quality of the receiving water bodies can be estimated, and reduction in the local indexes of flooding risk can be modelled with good approximation. The design of the MULTISOURCE ENTS pilot in Italy reduces the area required for treatment and therefore increases the potential of replication for such configuration even in difficult urban scenarios with low availability of usable land.

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