Overview
ROWP Costeiu is a secondary treatment plant serving approximately 990 people in Coșteiu, Timiș County, Romania. It discharges 59.81 m³/day of treated wastewater.
ROWP Costeiu is a municipal wastewater treatment plant located in Sâlha, Coșteiu, Timiș County, Romania. The facility serves a small population of around 990 residents, reflecting its role in a rural or peri-urban community. The plant provides secondary treatment, which is the standard biological treatment stage required under the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC) for agglomerations with a population equivalent (PE) between 2,000 and 10,000. Although the designed capacity is 3,405 m³/day, the current discharge volume is 59.81 m³/day, indicating operation well below capacity. The treated effluent is discharged into a local watercourse that ultimately drains into the Timiș River, a tributary of the Tisa River, which flows into the Danube and then the Black Sea. The plant helps protect the local watershed from untreated sewage, supporting aquatic life and downstream water quality.
Environmental context
The plant discharges into a small watercourse in the Timiș River basin, which flows into the Tisa River, a major tributary of the Danube. The Danube carries water to the Black Sea, making the plant part of a large transboundary watershed. The region supports diverse freshwater habitats, and the plant's secondary treatment reduces organic pollution and nutrient loads, helping to prevent eutrophication in downstream rivers and coastal areas.
Frequently asked questions
ROWP Costeiu is located in Sâlha, Coșteiu, Timiș County, Romania, at coordinates 45.740000 N, 21.855000 E.
The plant serves approximately 990 people, making it a small-scale municipal treatment facility.
The plant discharges treated effluent into a local watercourse that flows into the Timiș River, part of the Tisa-Danube basin, ultimately reaching the Black Sea.
ROWP Costeiu provides secondary treatment, which is the standard biological treatment required under the EU Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive for agglomerations of its size.
As an EU member state, Romania implements the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC). Plants serving fewer than 2,000 PE are not required to have a collection system, but those with secondary treatment meet the directive's minimum standards for smaller agglomerations.
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