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2.000 IE (835 households)
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Dense urban
Image  Rain water | Image  Drinking water | Image  Grey water |
| Stormwater is seperatly transported to open infiltration buffers. An overflow to a nearby river is possible in extreme cases. | DW is produced in a centralised treatment facility using ground water and distributed to the neighbourhood. | GW is separatly collected and treated on-site in a combined fixed bed bioreactor and ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor. The service water will be used for low water elevation of the district's local pond. |
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| BW is mixed before the digester with heated fermenting sludge that is recirculating from and into the digester. Also, fatty water is added to the BW digester in order to produce biogas. | Fatty water from kitchens in Hamburg is added to the digestion process. Food waste is managed on a centralised scale. | It is used for operational processes on the work yard itself. Surplus heat and electricity is delivered to the district heating network and electricity grid. |