At our wastewater treatment plants, the methane gas we produce ourselves is converted into heat and electrical energy in combined heat and power plants. This self-produced energy is climate-neutral and we therefore make a major contribution to climate protection.
However, for all this to work, these machines also need to be maintained.
We wish you merry christmas and a happy new year!
ARA Pusteria SPA Team 🎄
Working at sewage treatment plants can sometimes be dangerous. ARA Pustertal AG therefore focuses on occupational safety in all areas.
On June 17, 2024, a landslide occurred into the Seres river, above the village of Longiarù in Val Badia, causing a disastrous mudslide.
We, ARA Pusteria SPA, reacted immediately and were on site a few hours later to assist with the cleanup operations.
Wastewater treatment was, is and remains a very extensive process and cannot be learned simply through a tutorial. For this reason, our wastewater treatment plants are members of the KAN (sewage plant quarter) since more than 30 years, which every year offers many interesting topics, from field reports to technical and futuristic innovations.
Discover the #PlasticFree project: we are fighting micro- and nanoplastic pollution in our ecosystems! 🌊 Plastics are everywhere, threatening our health and the environment. With project EFRE1018, we are committed to identifying and quantifying the spread of these particles in freshwater and improving the efficiency of purification systems. Join us in the fight for a cleaner and more sustainable future! #Environment #Sustainability
The increasing wastewater volumes made it necessary to expand the capacity of the Unteres Pustertal WWTP.
How can the process of biogas production from wastewater treatment plants be optimized? One of the biggest problems in this process is the formation of foam in the digesters, which leads to reduced biogas production and increased maintenance costs for the plant. A joint research project of Ara Pustertal AG, Atzwanger AG, Stuga KG and Inewa Consulting GmbH looked for causes and solutions. Now results are available.
The San Candido/Sexten wastewater treatment plant has been in operation for 19 years, so various tasks were due to be carried out to optimise the plant.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year!
The ARA Pustertal Team
The symposium "30 years of sewage treatment plant neighborhoods" in Bressanone/Brixen has shown the high standard of South Tyrol in wastewater treatment. The sewage plant attendants play a central role in this.
At the Unteres Pustertal wastewater treatment plant in Mühlbach, a research project has been launched to understand the causes of foaming problems in digesters and to find effective countermeasures.
At the Wasserfeld WWTP, industrial divers were used to survey and clear sediments in the digestion tower.
Deployment of a digital real-time assistance system using artificial neural networks at the Innichen/Sexten wastewater treatment plant.
World Water Day, established by UNESCO in 1992, aims to draw humanity's attention to the true importance of water.
Since our wastewater treatment plant in St. Lorenzen has reached its capacity limit, we had to look for ways to expand it. You can find out what has become of it here.
The Pustertal wastewater consortium has elected a new board of directors. The thermal utilisation of the sewage sludge in Tobl is being pursued.
The agitator that has been in operation since 2008 is removed and converted to gas injection
Bernhard Wett gave an interview on the Triple AAA in Sompunt
The provincial government has given the green light for the sewage sludge treatment plant at the ARA Tobl site in St. Lorenzen.
Once again, the biology in the ARA Unteres Pustertal has tipped over.
Since the beginning of last year, there have been repeated problems.
The thermal pre-treatment of excess sludge solves a number of problems and increases the efficiency of the treatment plant
For 30 years Josef Ausserhofer, affectionately known as "Pepi", was chairman of ARA Pustertal AG.
Now he has taken his well-deserved retirement and passed on the leadership to Norbert Kosta.
Due to the storms of 5-6.08.2017, a section of the Braies valley collector was relocated and thus made safe from storms.
On June 11th, 2020 about 50 liters of oil entered the sewage treatment plant, causing damage to the plant.
Three wastewater treatment plants in the Puster Valley participate in an epidemiological study of the University of Innsbruck
Because of the Corona pandemic, many things cannot function as usual at the moment. Nevertheless, our sewage treatment plants remain in operation!
Whether for the baby's face, cleaning the bathroom, our buttocks or cleaning the cow's udder - there are cleaning cloths for everything. They are practical and are increasingly replacing conventional toilet paper, the good old washcloth and cleaning cloth. A further advantage: disposal. You simply throw everything into the toilet.
We are looking for interns who want to work on our facilities and in the field in summer 2020.
For the wastewater treatment plant Tobl an employee is wanted as a wastewater treatment plant technician.
The snow chaos in Pustertal in the middle of November also caused great problems for the sewage treatment plants.
At the KAN autumn conference of the sewage treatment plants, their representatives from the eastern half of the country met this time at the Brixen sewage treatment plant.
After the last conference took place in Tobl, this time the district community Eisacktal was the host.
At the invitation of Dabringer Recycling, the employees of ARA Pustertal visited the AGRINORD composting plant in Isola della Scala.
The World Water Day was proclaimed by UNESCO and has taken place annually since 1993 on 22 March. This day has a special theme. The World Water Report will also be published on the World Day.
International World Water Day 2019 has the common theme "Leave no one behind - water and sanitation for all".
ARA Pustertal is a participant in the ICAWER research project.
The aim of the project is to make sewage treatment plants more energy efficient and to solve local problems. This is achieved through the cooperation of universities, sewage plant and energy consultants as well as several sewage associations in Austria and Italy.
This project is supported by the European Regional Development Fund and Interreg V-A Italy-Austria 2014-2020.
The main collector in St. Lorenzen, near the Senni dairy farm, will be repaired this year. The work was awarded by the ARA Pustertal AG in January after appropriate preliminary work, planning and tendering and will now start in March 2019.
ARA Pustertal AG operates the main collector in Prags from the measuring station in Prags, located in the municipality of Prags to the connection to the valley collector, which runs along the orographically left bank of the Rienz in the municipality of Niederdorf.
Every year, the management of ARA Pustertal AG prepares a detailed report on the past financial year.
Every day 32,153 cubic metres of wastewater are produced in Pustertal. We use clean water for showering, brushing our teeth, rinsing, washing laundry and every time we go to the toilet. Polluted it becomes waste water, which was simply disposed of into the rivers a relatively short time ago. The environment suffered. Today we have five sewage treatment plants in the valley that treat the dirty water and return it clean to the rivers.