COV Mlada Vozice Wastewater Treatment Plant, Mladá Vožice, Czech Republic
Mladá Vožice, Jihočeský kraj, Czech Republic
Overview
COV Mlada Vozice is a secondary wastewater treatment plant serving the town of Mladá Vožice in the Jihočeský kraj region of the Czech Republic. It treats wastewater for approximately 1,472 residents.
COV Mlada Vozice is a municipal wastewater treatment plant located in Mladá Vožice, a town in the Jihočeský kraj (South Bohemian Region) of the Czech Republic. The facility serves a population of approximately 1,472 people, classifying it as a small agglomeration under Czech and EU regulations. The plant provides secondary treatment, which is the standard required by the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) for freshwater discharges from agglomerations of this size. The plant has a designed capacity of 2,880 m³/day and currently discharges an average volume of 336.99 m³/day, indicating ample reserve capacity. Treated effluent from the plant is discharged into local waterways that ultimately drain into the Vltava River basin, a major tributary of the Elbe River. The Elbe flows through Germany into the North Sea, making this plant part of a transboundary river system that supports diverse aquatic ecosystems and provides drinking water for downstream communities.
Environmental context
The plant's discharge enters the local stream network within the Vltava River basin, which flows northward to join the Elbe River near Mělník. The Elbe then continues through Germany to the North Sea. This watershed supports a variety of freshwater habitats, including fish spawning grounds and riparian zones. The region is part of the Bohemian Massif, characterized by rolling hills and agricultural land, where nutrient loading from wastewater can contribute to eutrophication in downstream water bodies.
Frequently asked questions
COV Mlada Vozice is located in the town of Mladá Vožice, in the Jihočeský kraj (South Bohemian Region) of the Czech Republic. The plant's address is 238, Třída Václava Vaniše, Mladá Vožice.
The plant serves approximately 1,472 residents of Mladá Vožice and surrounding areas, classifying it as a small agglomeration under EU wastewater treatment regulations.
The plant provides secondary treatment before discharging treated effluent into local streams that flow into the Vltava River basin, part of the larger Elbe River system that drains into the North Sea.
As a Czech plant, COV Mlada Vozice operates under the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), which requires secondary treatment for freshwater discharges from agglomerations with a population equivalent above 2,000. For smaller plants like this, secondary treatment is still standard practice to protect water quality.
In the Czech Republic, small wastewater treatment plants serving populations under 2,000 typically use secondary treatment processes such as activated sludge or biological filters. This level of treatment effectively reduces organic matter and suspended solids before discharge into surface waters.