Overview
Borowie wastewater treatment plant in Mazowieckie, Poland, served the local community with secondary treatment. The facility is now closed, with a designed capacity of 530 m³/day.
Borowie wastewater treatment plant is located in the village of Borowie, within the Mazowieckie voivodeship of Poland. The facility served the local population as part of the municipal wastewater infrastructure in the Garwolin County area. The plant is now closed and no longer operational. The plant provided secondary treatment, which is the standard biological treatment stage required under Polish regulations aligned with the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC). For small agglomerations like Borowie, secondary treatment is typically sufficient to meet effluent quality standards before discharge. The designed capacity of 530 m³/day indicates a small-scale facility. The treated effluent from the plant would have been discharged into local surface waters, likely a small river or stream within the Vistula River basin. The Vistula flows northward through Poland into the Baltic Sea. The plant's operation contributed to protecting local water quality and the downstream aquatic environment.
Environmental context
The plant's discharge would have entered a local watercourse within the Vistula River basin, which drains into the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea with limited water exchange, making it sensitive to nutrient pollution. Secondary treatment helps reduce organic load and nutrients, supporting the ecological health of downstream waters and the Baltic marine environment.
Frequently asked questions
The Borowie wastewater treatment plant is located in the village of Borowie, in the Mazowieckie voivodeship of Poland, within Garwolin County.
The Borowie plant had a designed capacity of 530 cubic meters per day, indicating it served a small local population.
The Borowie plant provided secondary treatment, which involves biological processes to remove organic matter and nutrients from wastewater.
The Borowie plant is listed as closed. Small plants in rural areas may be decommissioned when populations decline or when centralized regional systems become more efficient.
Polish wastewater treatment plants operate under the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), which sets standards for collection and treatment based on agglomeration size. Small plants like Borowie typically require secondary treatment.
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