Bank Filtration in Urban Areas under varying Pollutant Loads and Flood Situations
The objectives for Work package 1 are:
- Analysing the performance of existing bank filtration (BF) schemes in urban areas in India
- Evaluating the removal of organic pollutants, coliform bacteria and other pathogens for BF schemes located by surface water bodies featuring varying pollution loads
- BF risk evaluation with special focus on sustainable operation during floods and addressing the removal of hygienically relevant bacteria during floods (in cooperation with WP6)
- Developing technical elements for flood-proof water abstraction schemes
- Developing remediation concepts for BF in aquifers contaminated with inorganic nitrogen species
- Determining the economic viability of BF including post-treatment (in cooperation with WP4)