What WWTP (Waste Water Treatment Plant = Kläranlage) is cleaning your personal waste water?
I live in small village called Sulzbach. It belongs to the city Uster. In Uster, the Waste Water Treatment Plant is named Jungholz and is located in the district Niederuster. The WWTP Jungholz is responsible for Uster and Greifensee.
What is its dimension?
The WWTP Jungholz is responsible for ca. 35'000 inhabitants of Uster and for ca. 5'000 inhabitants of Greifensee.
Where is it located (map link)?
It is located in the district Niederuster. The adress is Seestrasse 171, 8610 Uster. WWTP Uster/Niederuster on Search map
How does it look like?
Which WWTP (ARA) is cleaning my personal waste water?
Ara Hinwil (Kläranlage Hinwil)
What is its dimension? For how many people is it designed for?It is designed for the over 10'000 residents of Hinwil as well as over 500 commercial and service companies.
Where is it located?
It is based on the outer edge of Hinwil, near Wetzikon.
Ara Hinwil on Google Maps
What does it look like?
Source: www.hinwil.ch
Our Wastewater Treatment Plant (Wasseraufbereitungsanlage) in Winterthur Töss
It reaches 123'535 persons in Winterthur and als some in cities in the near of Winterthur.
Source: StadtwerkWinterthur
Tiziano Di Paola
In Wädenswil there is the Rietliau sewage treatment plant, which purifies the water for the municipality of Wädenswil. It was put into operation in 1947 and has since been renovated again in 2005. The treatment plant is one of the medium-sized ones in the canton of Zurich, with a population equivalent of 44,000. The purified water flows back into Lake Zurich. There is a small recycling station for glass, plastic, etc. right in front of the treatment plant.
Sources (PDF) : https://www.hw.zh.ch/ara/Waedenswil.pdf
The ARA Mönchaltorf is built for 4000 people. It was installed in the year 1971. The last extension was 2003. The water is drawn from the Aabach and the Greifensee.
In Mönchaltorf, the following steps are processed:
1. Preliminary sedimentation
2. Activated sludge plant with deep aeration
3. Nitrification / denitrification
4. Chemical phosphate elimination
5. Wastewater filtration
Source:
moenchaltorf.ch
zh.ch
For my waste water, the ARA Bubikon / Wolfhausen is responsible. It covers 3558 people from Bubikon and Wolfhausen (2018). The size of the sewer is actually for 5000 inhabitants.
In Bubikon there is also a second ARA called Weidli, this one covers also some people from Bubikon but also the people from Dürnten. It was founded in 1972 and the ARA Bubikon / Wolfhausen in 1951.
The waters the ARA's use is the lake of Zurich and the Klausbauch.
ARA Bubikon (PDF, zh.ch)
The Werdhölzli Zürich Wastewater treatment plant is instructed to clean the waste water in my hometown.
There are 87 workers involved to serve over 471'275 people with cleaned water.
Due to its design up to 500'000 cubic metres can be cleansed each day.
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My water is purified at the Flos wastewater treatment plant (ARA) in Wetzikon. The water of the city of Wetzikon, Aathal/Seegräben, Auslikon (Pfäffikon) including the baths, Ober-Balm (Hittnau) and Grüt (Gossau) is cleaned there. They are also responsible for the sewerage system of the town of Wetzikon.More...
Here are some quick facts about the ARA Pfäffikon, which is my residential WWTP.
Name: ARA Pfäffikon
Size: It sustains about 17 000 People
Serves these villages: Pfäffikon, Bäretswil, Hittnau, Fehraltolf
Location: Schanzweg 2, 8330 Pfäffikon (See map below)
Fun Fact: The ARA is located opposite of the "Schanz" which is our "Wertstoff-Sammelstelle"
Source: züriost
Source: map.geo.admin
Where is it located?
Weidlistrasse 8, 8608 Bubikon
Coordinates: 2705 278 / 1236 123
How many people is it designed for?
8400 people
Waters:
Zürichsee, Schwarzbach
Commissioning:
1972
How does it look like?
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Source [PDF; zh.ch]
For my waste water, the ARA Esslingen und Oetwil am See is responsible. It covers 4848 people from Oetwil am See and 8888 people from Esslingen (2020). However, the size of the sewer is for 17,000 inhabitants. The ARA is in Esslingen 8133 and was founded in 1965.
The wastewater is collected via urban drainage and flows into the main sewer system. Due to the topographical location of our communities, part of the wastewater must be conveyed to the main collection sewer with the help of nine pumping stations.
Because the wastewater treatment plant cannot receive an unlimited amount of wastewater (210l/s), the municipality of Egg and Oetwil am See also have four additional rainwater retention basins at their disposal in case of large rainfalls, which can be used to collect the first wastewater accumulation.
The cleaning efficiency is 98%.
ARA-Esslingen
Livia