Centro tecnológico Cartif

Cartif presents the european project DUEROCLEAN with the Zamora City Council

Thursday, 03 June 2010

Zamora City Council submitted six draft cross-border cooperation to the call for EU POCTEP with a total budget of € 5.11 million

Among these projects is DUEROCLEAN, which aims to improve the quality of the waters of the Duero removing endocrine disruptors, micropollutants invisible substances capable of altering the hormonal balance of living organisms causing health dysfunction (impaired growth, reduced fertility, thyroid problems or even cancer.) These substances come from agriculture but also discharges wastewater from the cities whose water treatment plants are not equipped to filter them to be biological materials.

Cartif technology center, which takes several years working on a treatment plant with membrane technology, proposed to the municipalities of Valladolid, Regua, Zamora and Oporto, to participate in this ambitious project, which, if approved, would continue the investigation starting with a analysis of the waters of the Duero to detect the exact level of the level of these pollutants and ending with the implementation of the most advanced purification technologies for sewage and water treatment.