Find out what WWTP is cleaning your personal waste water?
The Flos wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) treats wastewater from the town of Wetzikon (entire town area), Aathal/Seegräben, Auslikon (Pfäffikon) including the baths, Ober-Balm (Hittnau) and Grüt (Gossau).
They are also responsible for the maintenance and operation of the two pumping stations Bäretswil (former sewage treatment plant Bäretswil) and Aathal/Seegräben. In addition, they look after all external stormwater and retention basins and the entire sewer system of the city of Wetzikon (wastewater, meteoric water pipes and sludge collectors).
What is its dimension?
37 000 Population values
Where is it located (map link)?
Coordinates: 2701 454 / 1242 918
https://www.zh.ch/de/umwelt-tiere/wasser-gewaesser/gewaesserschutz/abwasserreinigungsanlagen.html
How does it look like?
I live in Hittnau. My personal waste water is cleaning The ARA Pfäffikon. The adress from the ARA Pfäffikon is Schanzweg 2, 8330 Pfäffikon (see the map below). They clean the waste water from Hittnau, Bäretswil, Fehraltorf and Pfäffikon.
Expansion size: 17 000 population equivalents
Link:
ARA Pfäffikon [gwpzh.ch]
WWTP; WasteWaterTreatmentPlant
The WWTP treatment plan is executed in 3 steps. Each of these steps is crucial for clean water.
Step I) is to get rid of fats or oils by using a "pre-treatment".
Step II) is responsible for biological treatment of organic particles in the waste water. In order to do so, the plant has to work through several technically hight maintenance processes.
Step III) During the biological process, a mixture of bacteria creates some sort of "dirt" (Schlamm). This dirt is being removed in a different pool of the plant.
The Waste Water Treatment Plant in Wolfhausen is about as big as 2/3 of a football field. Since there is another one in Bubikon which is the same district (Gemeinde), which means it covers an area of about 3500 people.
Kläranlage Schachen in Wolfhausen
My personal water is cleaned by the WWTP in Hinwil.
Here you can see, where the WWTP in Hinwil is located: map
The investment costs of the WWTP in Hinwil amount to CHF 16.8 Mio.
The last extensions of the WWTP took place from 2010 - 2014.
The expansion size [1] is 21000 population values [2].
The catchment areas [3] are Hinwil and partly Bäretswil.
Vocabulary:
[1] Ausbaugrösse
[2] Einwohnerwerte
[3] Einzugsgebiete
What WWTP is cleaning my personal waste water?
The wastewater treatment plant in Dürnten-Bubikon processes our wastewater.
Where is it located?
The WWTP is located at Weidlistrasse 8 in Bubikon.
What are the dimensions of the ARA or how many people is it designed for?
This WWTP deals with the municipalities of Dürnten, Bubikon and Hinwil and thus 8095 inhabitants (as of 2018). The ARA is developed for 8400 inhabitants.
ARA Dürnten-Bubikon
Sources
BubikonD.pdf (zh.ch)
Karishma
Bauma's wastewater treatment plant treats wastewater from the surrounding communities of Bauma, Fischenthal, Bäretswil, Hinwil, Hittnau, Wila and Wildberg.
Total connected inhabitants 7517
Bauma: 4547
Fischenthal: 2275
Bäretswil: 361
Hinwil: 12
Hittnau: 247
Wila: 52
Wildberg: 22
In the operating year 2019, a wastewater volume of 728,983m³ was treated. This is 157810 m³ more than the year
2018, which was very dry.
1969
The Bauma wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) was built in 1969 in Saland for a population of 6,000 and was renovated and expanded for the first time in the mid-1990s.
2035
The groundwater flow under the upper Töss supplies the Tösstal and Winterthur with first-class drinking water. In order to protect this from contamination in the long term, the Tösstal municipalities of Fischenthal, Bauma, Wila, Turbenthal, Zell, Weisslingen, together with the city of Winterthur and the AWEL have agreed to shut down the Bauma and Weisslingen wastewater treatment plants by 2035. The wastewater from the Tösstal valley would then be directed to the ARA Hard in Winterthur. It is planned to establish a joint institution under the name "Regional Wastewater Disposal Tösstal". In the referendum on 19 May, the foundation of the GA was clearly approved. The new institution is to be founded in 2020 and create the infrastructure for the upper Töss to be free of wastewater.
Picture: ARA Bauma (located in Saland)
Regards,
Alexa & Sandra (Bauma) & Chiara (Bäretswil)
Here is an article I found. It is about how humans are on the best way to destroy the place where we live.
Click here for the article [www.geolino.ch]
I found an interesting article about climate change. It mentions that our summer will last half a year by 2100. Winter it self will only be 31 days.
Our summer lasts already 20 % longer than they used to be. The problem is not just that the summer lasts longer, it will be more extreme and forestfires will be more likely.
As already mentioned scientists have already noticed that the duration of summer has grown 17 days in 50 years. And the duration of winter has shrunk by 3 days.
Scientists says that even bigger changes will come.
Source: The guardian
Each morning you stand up, eat breakfast and take a shower. Before you go into the bathroom, you turn the light on and after showering you plug in the hair dryer.
The light bulb has an power of 12 ampere and the hair dryer uses 2'200 Watt, both the light and the hair dryer have been on for 10 minutes.
How many kWh have you consumed by drying your hair while the light was turned on?
Cindy G. & Simon L.
Task 6
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Tonia & Chiara
You have decided to clean your house after work. You need half an hour to vacuum the whole house. You use a vacuum cleaner with a power of 1600 watts for this purpose.
Besides, the TV has been on for two hours. The TV consumes 70 watts per hour.
How many kWh have you consumed by vacuuming and watching TV?
Karishma & Kamanya