LIFE REMAR is a project with the main objective of proving the feasibility of the recharge of the Baix Camp’s aquifer with wastewater from the Cambrils’ WWTP using a Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) technology with reactive barriers. It hopes to improve not only the main state of the coastal aquifer but the quality of its water as well, all through usage of reactive barriers just where the wastewater will make its way underground. These will allow a free water flow towards the aquifer but the barrier will manage, thanks to them being a carefully thought mix of natural, porous and absorbing materials, to retain and remove those hazardous chemicals that still stay diluted after a secondary treatment. These new chemicals found in such wastewater that could be both concerning and detrimental to human health are bound to be retained and/or removed before reaching the aquifer, such as Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs), microplastics, pathogens, Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs), and other substances such as nitrates and phosphates, all to achieve and ensure natural groundwater quality.
Funding: LIFE programme of the European Union
