Engineering for a better tomorrow: A plume of CFCs has been known to exist in Walldorf since the late 1990s. Highly volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons endangered the drinking water supply north of the city. To prevent this, a major groundwater remediation project has been underway 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 via activated carbon filters. It is then returned to the aquifer. Thanks to the very successful remediation measures, the pollutant concentrations in the groundwater of the upper aquifer were reduced by about 99 %. A threat to the drinking water extraction wells north of Walldorf was thus prevented.

MuP Umwelttechnik has been monitoring and controlling 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 also 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 in future only two remediation plants will remain in operation to remove the residual contamination. A project that once again shows that MuP Umwelttechnik lives up to its vision: Engineering for a better tomorrow

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