Overview
Mosciano Stazione wastewater treatment plant serves 2,400 people in Mosciano Sant'Angelo, Abruzzo, Italy. It provides secondary treatment and discharges treated effluent near the Adriatic coast.
Mosciano Stazione is a municipal wastewater treatment plant located in Mosciano Sant'Angelo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. The facility serves a population of approximately 2,400 residents, classifying it as a small agglomeration under Italian and EU regulations. It is situated near the Adriatic coast, within 10 km of the shoreline. The plant operates with secondary treatment, which is the minimum standard required by the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) for discharges into coastal waters. The designed capacity is 4,000 m³/day, and the actual discharge volume is 475.12 m³/day, indicating significant spare capacity. As a coastal plant, it must meet stringent standards to protect marine water quality. The treated effluent is discharged into the Adriatic Sea via local waterways. The Adriatic Sea is a semi-enclosed basin with limited water exchange, making it sensitive to nutrient pollution. The plant's secondary treatment helps reduce organic load and suspended solids, contributing to the protection of coastal ecosystems and tourism-dependent local economies.
Environmental context
The plant discharges into the Adriatic Sea, a semi-enclosed basin that receives inflows from the Po River and numerous smaller rivers along the Italian coast. The coastal waters near Mosciano Sant'Angelo support diverse marine life, including seagrass meadows and fish nurseries. Nutrient inputs from wastewater can contribute to eutrophication, so the plant's secondary treatment is essential for maintaining water quality in this ecologically sensitive coastal zone.
Frequently asked questions
The plant is located on Strada Statale 80 racc di Teramo in Mosciano Stazione, a frazione of Mosciano Sant'Angelo, in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy.
The plant serves approximately 2,400 people, making it a small agglomeration under EU classification.
The plant provides secondary treatment and discharges treated effluent into local waterways that flow into the Adriatic Sea, located within 10 km of the facility.
As an Italian plant, it operates under the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), which requires secondary treatment for coastal discharges from agglomerations of this size.
For small agglomerations in Italy, secondary treatment is standard, especially for coastal discharges. The EU directive mandates secondary treatment for all discharges from agglomerations above 2,000 population equivalent.
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