Sustainable groundwater management of a dune aquifer by re-use of wastewater effluent in Flanders, Belgium

In July 2002 the Intermunicipal Water Company of the Veurne Region (IWVA) started with the production of infiltration water by the re-use of wastewater effluent. This new treatment plant, called ‘Torreele’, contains the following treatment steps: pre-screening, microfiltration (MF), cartridge filtration, reverse osmosis (RO) and ultraviolet irradiation (UV). The ‘Torreele’ plant is designed to produce 2,500,000m³.yr -1 of infiltration water, this is 40% of the current drinking-water demand. The flowchart is shown in Fig. 1. The whole project was developed to create a sustainable groundwater ma... Mehr ...