Special Symposium on PFAS elimination from Drinking Water Including a Technology Demonstration event

ZeroPM which stands for Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile substances, interlinks prevention, prioritization and removal strategies to protect the environment and human health from persistent and mobile substances. ZeroPM is developing technical solutions for water and sludge treatment with the goal of keeping the drinking water cycle clean.

The Special Symposium will provide water utilities, academics, policy makers and those working with remediation solutions, the opportunity to gain knowledge about how PFAS can be removed from drinking water and visit the water works at Rastatt, Germany and see the remediation methods first hand.

The event will be held over two days with presentations from different sectors. There will be a guided tour of the waterworks in Rastatt-Rauental. At the waterworks activated carbon filtration is used to remove PFAS from water. The treatment facility was installed in 2018 to combat the huge PFAS contamination in the surrounding area due to the application of contaminated biosolids (many people know this as the Rastatt case).

Furthermore, pilot plants using activated carbon and / or ion exchange are currently installed at the waterworks which participants will be able to see. The event will feature speakers from Europe and America discussing remediation techniques for removing PFAS from water and sludge, more broadly about the PFAS problem and is being organized by the ZeroPM partner responsible for the test site, The German Water Center, TZW as well as the local waterworks themselves, Stadtwerke Rastatt.