Wastewater (DK)
Challenge
Wastewater control is a challenge for all environmental and water authorities. Wastewater includes all type of water discharged from dwellings, businesses, other buildings and paved areas. Generally speaking, the discharge of wastewater requires a permit.
The Danish EPA’s responsibility includes the inspection of wastewater companies, treatment plants and stormwater outfalls related to wastewater treatment and discharge.
For the Danish EPA, the oversight builds on a municipal responsibility for wastewater facilities, where incident reports trigger an inspection. Adding to this, 18,000-20,000 rainwater overflow outlets are inspected.
KEYWORDS
Thematic
Wastewater, sewerage, sewage, wastewater treatment plant
Legal
National
Tech
Inspections, permits
To facilitate this task, the EPA combines administrative inspections with a call for information to water companies with on-site inspections and incident-caused inspections.
Previously, the EPA had assigned limited resources to the administration of wastewater control, which was performed by using spreadsheets and templates. It was hard to get a central overview of activities in the department and there was a lack of overview and maintenance of data sources.
Solution
The F2 inspections solution serves and combines all necessary purposes and was implemented in 7 months.
The new digital wastewater solution maintains a base register of all the objects that are focus of the inspection. Rainwater overflow sites, water companies and their wastewater treatment plants, etc.
By using the case structure and case guides, the hierarchy and relation of the elements are coupled and the history of reporting, inspections and accident handling, is recorded and displayed centrally in one single system.
Annually, a thematic inspection theme is decided upon at a wastewater summit. Based on this, an inspection case is developed. A call for information is sent out to water companies. Data is automatically transferred to a self-service form for inspectors who conduct the respective site visits. The inspection data is stored in the base register and keeps track of inspection history. In combination with the incident-based inspections, this gives the authorities a coherent governance system.
The waste water solution includes:
Case guides (also used as registry of entities)
Search templates
Results
The Environmental Protection Agency now has a much better overview and ability to plan their inspections. The increased efficiency makes it possible to focus resources on the actual inspections.
In more detail, this means that the solution provides a central overview of the elements and sites that make up the wastewater treatment and handling system. By making use of the case structure and case guides the hierarchy and relation of the system elements are coupled and the history of reporting, controls and accident handling, is recorded and displayed centrally.
The new digital wastewater solution offers a central system shared by the organization which gives an improved overview and possibility for better planning, thereby increasing efficiency.
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