Galindo waste water treatment plant was designed in the 1980s on the plot of a dump in a highly industrialized area. The industrial conversion plan and urban development have remodeled the surrounding landscape, making it an urban established plant, causing conditions to which the plant could not offer solutions.
Aware that the plant should not produce a significant change in the quality of resident’s life, the Consorcio de Aguas Bilbao Bizkaia (CABB) has designed an ambitious plan of minimization of the odor significance, scheduled in four stages.
A. López Etxebarria
Consorcio de Aguas de Bilbao-Bizkaia.
C/San Vicente 8, 48001 Bilbao.
alopez@consorciodeaguas.com
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