Info from the CORDIS database:

The principal objectives are  :

• To monitor, prevent and remediate coastal pollution due to wastewater disposal through the use of multipurpose subsurface-flow constructed wetlands (SFW), inserting them into the productive system of rural societies and, in a more general way, into the surrounding environment.
• To gain information useful to help in the optimisation of the design and management of constructed wetlands.
• To assess the effectiveness of SFW as a low-tech, low-cost solution to domestic wastewaters treatment.
• To demonstrate the possibility of reusing treated waters for irrigation purposes and aquifer recharging.
• To conduct an economic-social-environment analysis to evaluate the global impact of wetland construction and management.

General Information: The project is based on the construction of biodepurating systems in six representative places, each system comprising six constructed cells with annexed spreading basins for aquifer recharging.

• The six cells - which can be split in two, so totalling twelve sub-cells - will offer the possibility of exploring a variety of conditions useful in the process of optimisation, namely detention time, filling media, depurating plants, water depth, etc.
• Phytodepuration efficiency will be evaluated comparing physical, chemical and microbiological characters of inflowing and treated waters.
• The results of system monitoring in the technical, economic and environmental aspects will be analyzed to issue recommendations and guidelines and a decision support tool will be released.