Peschiera Wastewater Plant Requalification Project Aims for Environmental Improvement
Close attention has been paid to the area around the Peschiera wastewater treatment plant on Lake Garda. Recently, a project for the requalification and environmental improvement of the entire Peschiera treatment facility was submitted to the Ministry of the Environment. This facility, as is well known, receives effluents from the collection system that covers most of the localities along the Garda shores.
For the Brescia side, the Consorzio Garda Uno Special Agency is responsible, while for the Veneto side, the Gardesana Servizi Company handles it. The requalification project was presented to the members of the Wastewater Treatment Plant Management Committee, the heads of the two Consortia involved, and Vice Mayor Carlo Nosè representing the Municipal Administration by Franco Richetti, the General Director of Garda Uno — who manages the intermunicipal Peschiera plant. The presentation took place during a meeting held recently at the plant’s headquarters.
Details of the requalification project
The project covers the entire area of the treatment plant as a unified whole, divided into four interventions that are functionally autonomous but connected by a common thread: the environmental requalification of the entire area. The cost estimate for these interventions, which have been particularly appreciated by the ministry itself, is around 4 billion lire, part of which is financed by the ministry.
The four planned interventions will focus on environmental improvement, including landscaping and updating the buildings and structures that emerge from the plant, with an emphasis on minimizing impact; redefining functional and relational spaces linking the plant to the surrounding environment, including pedestrian and vehicle access, organizational areas, and green space arrangements following criteria for better environmental compatibility.
Effluent control and management measures
The implementation of a system to control influent flows (by-pass systems) to prevent operational damage to the plant and phenomena like backflow and possible flooding is also part of the four planned interventions. Lastly, to optimize the management of effluents from final sediments, a reunification of the four discharges into the Seriola Prevaldesca channel has been proposed. This channel flows into the Mincio River downstream of the Salionze dam.
These measures are designed both with a view to future tertiary treatment of the effluent and, in the current phase, to facilitate simpler monitoring of analytical and quantitative parameters, thus inevitably reducing costs.
