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Individual farms in rural areas often face problems with domestic sewage collection and treatment. In many cases investment costs of sewerage systems and central wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are too high, due to long distances from one farm to another and terrain configuration. Treatment wetlands for individual farms can solve this problem. In the present study, an overview of individual treatment wetlands in Europe and Poland is reviewed. On this basis, the conception of domestic sewage and sewage sludge management for an individual farm was developed within the project “Innovative solutions for wastewater management in rural areas”. The concept was aimed at preparation of a ready-to-implement solution of the problem of sewage and sludge management of a local community in a rural area by treatment wetlands serving individual households. The proposal of an innovative sanitary system is based on an idea of a closed cycle of matter in the environment. The nutrient substances: N, P and K compounds present in sewage and sludge should be recycled to the soil. Three configurations of hydrophyte beds will be tested in order to select the optimal solution. The implementation of the project has already started at the catchment area of river Borucinka at the municipality Stezyca, Pommerania Region, Poland.
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Funding support from the EEA Financial Mechanism and Norwegian Financial Mechanism (PL 0271) and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (E033/P01/2008/02) is gratefully acknowledged.
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Obarska-Pempkowiak, H., Gajewska, M., Wojciechowska, E., Ostojski, A. (2010). The Concept of a Sewage-Sludge Management System for an Individual Household. In: Vymazal, J. (eds) Water and Nutrient Management in Natural and Constructed Wetlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9585-5_14
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