BATSECO-BOAT: An upgrade in the sewage collecting service in the Central Baltic region
In the last three years BATSECO-Boat has worked for a cleaner Baltic sea.
BATSECO-BOAT (Best Available Technology of SEwage COllecting technologies for BOAT tourism) resulted in a total of 11 new pump-out stations in Sweden, Finland and Estonia and 9 renewed stations in the Finnish archipelago. The new pump-out stations were distributed in this way: 2 in Sweden, 4 in Estonia and 5 in Finland. The purchasing process has been supported by the investigations conducted under the implementation WP. These included policy and economic analyses, technological assessment, a traffic flow model and chemical analyses of boats wastewater.
UCV-Campus Roslagen has conducted the investigation of existing and innovative technical solutions and Norrtälje municipality has bought two new floating stations in the ports of Ellan and Stora Högskär.
The project team presented the results in a final event organized online on the 17th of February. In this post we publish the presentations from the day.
BATSECO-BOAT was coordinated by the University of Turku (Finland) and the partners were Keep the Archipelago Tidy (Finland), Ecoloop (Sweden), Campus Roslagen (Sweden), Norrtälje municipality (Sweden), Keep the Estonian Sea tidy (Estonia) and Viimsi municipality (Estonia). The Swedish Transport agency has been a reference partner in the project. The project was funded by the EU-program Interreg Central Baltic, for a total budget of 1,48 million euros, of which 1,14 million euros was support from the Central Baltic program.
All reports published by BATSECO-BOAT project can be found at www.batseco-boat.eu.
