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Poland, Sokoly Commune Sokoły is situated on Plateau Wysokomazowiecki within the area known as the “Green Lungs of Poland”. District Wysokomazowiecki, in Podlaskie province in northeastern Poland. Soil filter with distribution and aeration pipelines before covering Completed soil filter with vegetation Pumping station Denitrification pond The project was funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 Poland, Sokoly

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Poland, Sokoly

Commune Sokoły is situated on Plateau Wysokomazowiecki within the area known as the “Green Lungs of Poland”. District Wysokomazowiecki, in Podlaskie province in northeastern Poland.

Sokoly is inhabited by approx. 6100 people and is bordered by three provinces: Warmia-Mazury, Mazovia and Lublin. From the north, the neighbor is Lithuania, and Belarus is to the east. The municipality covers an area of 15 557 hectares, and its network of settlements consists of 49 villages.

It is a typical example of a sparsely populated area commune, and currently they have 125 working household wastewater treatment plants, out of which 114 are soil plants with denitrifying pond systems.

Read more about Polish pilots:

Poland pilot descriptions (.pdf 1,8Mb).

Description of the project

Sokoły Municipality decided to change old wastewater treatment system consisting of sedimentation tank and wheel transportation system of slurry to the collective wastewater treatment plant in Sokoły village, because the old system was too expensive and troublesome.

The detailed description of building process can be found from the report

'Installation of technological systems for wastewater treatment' available at the VillageWaters Internet page:
https://www.villagewaters.eu/Project_reports_994

School in Bruszewo with soil filter in building stage.

Soil filter with distribution and aeration pipelines before covering

Completed soil filter with vegetation

Pumping station

Denitrification pond

The project was funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020

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Poland, Sokoly

Sokoly is inhabited by approx 6100 people and is bordered by three provinces: Warmia-Mazury, Mazovia and Lublin Commune Sokoły is situated on Plateau Wysokomazowiecki within the area known as the “Green Lungs of Poland”. District Wysokomazowiecki, in Podlaskie province in northeastern Poland.