A Vital Resource Under Threat
We all drink too little tap water - even though in Germany and France it is considered the safest food of all. Here, as there, it is at least as good as bottled water from the supermarket. How can we make tap water more palatable (schmackhaft) to people? And: How is tap water actually produced? More...
For our personal water waste, is the ARA in Gossau responsible. It is located in the outskirt Gossau and covers the usage of ca. 15'000 people. The system started in 1971 and the last expansion was a new filter in 2012. The coordinates are 2699 058 / 1240 065.
The waters are the Greifensee, the Aabach and the Gossauerbach.
Fabrizio and Yanik
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