Riktlinjer för enskilt avlopp : Underlag för bedömning av normal och hög skyddsnivå i Köpings kommun

Sammanfattning: In Sweden, the eutrophication of lakes, water courses and the coastal areas is considered the major threat to aquatic ecosystems and therefore actions taken to reduce the nutrient load to aquatic system including the Baltic Sea has high priority. There are many different sources of phosphorous and nitrogen and domestic wastewater is one contributing factor to the high load. Especially waste water from households that is not connected to municipal sewage treatment or a local small scale plant with appropriate nutrient removal efficiency is considered a problem. These types of households are quite common in rural areas in Sweden and in areas where summer houses has been converted to permanent living. Swedish legislation now permit the municipalities to decide in which areas within the municipality higher demands of the local small scale treatment facility should be met by the households (i.e. high protection level) and where it is acceptable with a less efficient treatment facility (i.e. normal protection level). In this study, using the Swedish legislation, Swedish Environmental goals and simple Hazard Assessment Schemes a proposal for how these protection levels could be used in the municipal of Köping, one of the municipals with water courses entering Lake Mälaren, the 4th biggest lake in Sweden and with large problems with eutrophication will be presented.