Rural Area Sewage Rural Area Sewage TreatmentTreatment

Dr. Zoltán KarácsonyiDr. Zoltán KarácsonyiUniversity of DebrecenUniversity of Debrecen

Centre for Environmental Management and Policy Centre for Environmental Management and Policy

University of DebrecenCentre for Environmental Management and Policy

3. LAKEPROMO MEETING AND SEMINAR – STEERING GROUP MEETING26.10. 2005

University of Brighton, UK

BackgroundBackground

Hungary: sewage problems in rural areas Hungary: sewage problems in rural areas mean important problemmean important problem

Sewage treatment of small settlements Sewage treatment of small settlements mainly with less than 2000 inhabitants and mainly with less than 2000 inhabitants and individual or small-group houses is essentially individual or small-group houses is essentially unsolvedunsolved

Some efforts and private companies’ Some efforts and private companies’ activities are running activities are running

Limited information is availableLimited information is available

National ProgramNational Program

Governmental decrees harmonized with Governmental decrees harmonized with 91/271/E91/271/EC DirectiveC Directive

National Programme for Harmless Placing of National Programme for Harmless Placing of Local SewageLocal Sewage ‘‘A’ program: National Sewage Treatment A’ program: National Sewage Treatment

Feasibility Program - Feasibility Program - 25/2002. (II. 27.) 25/2002. (II. 27.) GovGov. . DecreeDecree

‘‘B’ program: Individual Sewage Treatment B’ program: Individual Sewage Treatment National Feasibility Program – 174/2003 (X. 28.) National Feasibility Program – 174/2003 (X. 28.) Gov. DecreeGov. Decree

Target stateTarget state - - NeNecessarycessary individual sewage treatment individual sewage treatment

capacity in Hungarycapacity in Hungary    Normal areas Sensitive areas Totally

    A. Living waters and firths A. Living waters and firths  

 Emission sites

Agglomerational class

Number of affected agglomerations/settlements

Total PE (population equvivalent)

Number of affected agglomerations/settlements

Total PE (population equvivalent)

Number of affected agglomerations/settlements

Total PE (population equvivalent)

1 2 000 PE 10 000 482 638 268 14 14 638 496 652 906

2 10 000 PE 15 000 51 131 536 3 5 714 54 137 250

3 15 000 PE 150 000 112 602 241 4 22 454 116 624 695

4 More than 150 000 15 289 023 1 10 467 16 299 490

  Totally 660 1 661 068 22 53 273 682 1 714 341

5 Less than 2 000 PE 1483 693 673 180 42 944 1663 736 617

Individual sewage treatment totally 2143 2 354 741 202 96 217 2345 2 450 958

ActivitiesActivities

Short overview of rural area sewage Short overview of rural area sewage treatment situation in Hungarytreatment situation in Hungary

Overview of available Hungarian Overview of available Hungarian rural area sewage treatment rural area sewage treatment methods, gained experiencesmethods, gained experiences

Experiences of solutions applied by Experiences of solutions applied by project partners (Finland, UK)project partners (Finland, UK)

PilotPilot

Qualification of different solutions’ Qualification of different solutions’ adaptability (individual house, small adaptability (individual house, small group of houses, settlements with group of houses, settlements with less than 2000 inhabitants) based on less than 2000 inhabitants) based on partners’ experiencespartners’ experiences