Engineering for a better tomorrow: An LCKW pollution plume has been known in Walldorf since the end of the 1990s. Highly volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons jeopardised drinking water extraction north of the town. To prevent this, a major groundwater remediation project has been running for 20 years. At times, up to five remediation plants were in operation at the same time.

Contaminated groundwater is pumped and cleaned of pollutants using activated carbon filters. It is then returned to the aquifer. Thanks to the very successful remediation measures, the concentrations of pollutants in the groundwater of the upper aquifer were reduced by approx. 99 %. This prevented the drinking water wells to the north of Walldorf from being jeopardised.

MuP Umwelttechnik has been monitoring and managing the groundwater remediation since 2012 and has repeatedly accelerated the progress of the remediation and made it more efficient with the help of various measures and investigations. In doing so, MuP has always paid attention to a cost-optimised approach.

With success: Due to the almost 100% reduction in pollutants, a further decommissioning and partial dismantling of another remediation plant is planned for 2021, so that only two remediation plants will remain in operation in the future to remove the residual contamination. A project that once again shows that MuP Umwelttechnik is living up to its vision: Engineering for a better tomorrow

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