Overview
DEP_COM_COLLEVERDE is an advanced wastewater treatment plant serving Castelnuovo di Porto, Lazio, Italy. It treats wastewater for approximately 700 people with a designed capacity of 800 cubic meters per day.
DEP_COM_COLLEVERDE is an advanced wastewater treatment plant located in Castelnuovo di Porto, a town in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. The plant serves a small population of around 700 residents, reflecting its role in a rural or peri-urban setting within the broader Rome metropolitan area. The plant provides advanced treatment, which goes beyond the secondary treatment standard required by the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) for agglomerations of this size. With a designed capacity of 800 cubic meters per day and a discharge volume of 138.58 cubic meters, the facility operates well within its capacity, ensuring effective treatment of local wastewater. The treated effluent is discharged into the local watershed, which ultimately drains into the Tiber River basin and then into the Tyrrhenian Sea. The plant's advanced treatment helps protect the Tiber River ecosystem and downstream coastal waters from nutrient pollution and other contaminants, supporting aquatic life and water quality in the region.
Environmental context
The plant discharges into the Tiber River basin, which flows through Lazio and into the Tyrrhenian Sea near Rome. The Tiber River supports diverse aquatic life and is an important water resource for the region. Advanced treatment at this plant helps reduce nutrient loads and pollutants, protecting the river's ecological health and the coastal marine environment from eutrophication and other impacts.
Frequently asked questions
DEP_COM_COLLEVERDE is located in Castelnuovo di Porto, a town in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy.
The plant serves approximately 700 people, making it a small-scale treatment facility for a rural or suburban community.
The plant provides advanced treatment, which includes nutrient removal and disinfection, exceeding the secondary treatment standard required by the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive.
Under the EU UWWTD, agglomerations with a population equivalent (PE) of less than 2,000 are not required to have a collecting system, but if they do, secondary treatment is standard. DEP_COM_COLLEVERDE's advanced treatment goes beyond this requirement, ensuring high-quality effluent for the sensitive Tiber River basin.
The plant has a designed capacity of 800 cubic meters per day, and its current discharge volume is 138.58 cubic meters per day, indicating it operates well below capacity.
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