Expansion of the Large Effluent Treatment Plant Czajka
Even if Poland is still struggling with environmental policy sins of the past, the environmental situation of the country has improved appreciably in recent years. However, there is still a long way to go particularly in terms of air, effluent and waste in order to be able to meet the required standards of the European Union by 2015.
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Drinking water protection
The guidelines for drinking water protection and the treatment of local authority effluent have now been implemented in Polish law, and the process of expanding the water and effluent infrastructure in the regional conurbations of the country has commenced.
Largest effluent treatment plant in Poland
Warsaw is one of the most rapidly developing cities in Europe. The largest effluent treatment plant in Poland is now being established with the effluent treatment plant Czajka in the Northeast of the capital. This large effluent treatment plant will have a treatment capacity of 450,000 m³ per day, corresponding to 2.1 million population equivalence, and will virtually double the previous capacity of the existing installation. The municipal water works and effluent works of Warsaw will be responsible for this project involving an investment of more than EUR 500 million, and project implementation will be the responsibility of an international syndicate.
Sludge treatment and thickening with technology of GEA Westfalia Separator
The German company WTE Wassertechnik from Essen is responsible for planning and equipping the mechanical stage. The sludge treatment technology will therefore be supplied by GEA Westfalia Separator in the form of six decanters of the type UCD 755 for thickening and five decanters of the type UCD 536 for de-watering the clarified sludge which is obtained.
Because of the good co-operation in conjunction with projects in Lithuania and Turkey, WTE Wassertechnik has again decided to use GEA Westfalia Separator as its supplier.
By December 2010, the large effluent treatment plant Czajka will be completed after a construction period of only two years. The project will be implemented in two stages, so that on-going operation will be guaranteed continuously even during the construction work. At present, the eleven GEA Westfalia Separator decanters are being installed and are due to be commissioned in early 2010.
Sector of the future: Environmental protection
Even if more than 1,000 effluent treatment plants in Poland will have to be constructed or modernized until the European standards are met, the construction of the effluent treatment plant Czajka is considered to be one of the most important environmental protection measures in Europe.