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Efficient treatment of surface runoff
Original title: Efficient treatment of surface runoff
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A Russian-language study evaluates flow-through surface runoff treatment systems in real operating conditions across Russia, finding that they consistently fail to meet national water quality standards. The authors recommend redesigning these systems to effectively remove pollutants including suspended solids from stormwater.
Опыт практической эксплуатации проточных систем очистки поверхностных сточных вод в различных реальных условиях на территории РФ показал их полную технологическую несостоятельность. По оценке специалистов, технологические и конструктивные параметры установок проточного типа не соответствуют нормам проектирования, действующим в РФ, заявленная степень очистки поверхностных сточных вод на них недостижима, то есть, по сути, проточные системы осуществляют имитацию очистных процессов. Наряду с традиционным набором загрязнений (песок, взвешенные вещества, нефтепродукты и тяжелые металлы), характерных для поверхностных сточных вод, реальную угрозу водным объектам, принимающим ливневой сток, представляет микропластик. Технологическая несостоятельность проточных систем очистки и новые объективные задачи по очистке поверхностных сточных вод от дополнительных видов загрязнений диктуют необходимость применения надежных технологических решений. The experience of practical operation of flow-through systems for surface runoff treatment in different real-life environment on the territory of the Russian Federation showed their complete technological failure. In the estimation of specialists, the process and design parameters of flow-through plants do not comply with the design standards in force in the Russian Federation, the declared degree of surface runoff treatment being unachievable; that is, virtually, flow-through systems simulate treatment processes. Along with the traditional set of pollutants typical for surface runoff (sand, suspended solids, oil products and heavy metals), microplastics pose a real threat to water bodies that receive storm water. Technological inconsistency of flow-through treatment systems and new objective tasks of removing additional types of pollution from surface runoff necessitate the use of reliable process solutions for the treatment of surface runoff.
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