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The main wastewater treatment plant in Münster-Coerde will be extensively
extensively renovated, remodelled and expanded. This will not only create additional
capacities for the treatment of wastewater will be created, but an additional
an additional, fourth purification stage will also be built. This will ensure that
micropollutants such as drug residues or microplastics can be removed.
can be removed.
Four purification stages
Cleaning stage 1 - purely mechanical cleaning
• Removal of coarse particles, sand and grease trap
Purification stage 2 - biological purification
• Degradation of organic substances
Purification stage 3 - chemical purification
• Binding of pollutants through the addition of
chemicals
Purification stage 4
• Filtering out drug and hormone residues
hormone residues and microplastics
