Recent evolutions on French regulation and normative documents about on-site treatment: How do they also change the technical aspects?

Abstract

The regulation relative to technical requirements applicable to on-site treatment evolved in 2007. It introduced the possibility of implementing new types of approved wastewater treatment plant. It also described guidelines to get new treatment plant approved. Experimental tests have to be carried out which duration depends on tests carried out beforehand during a EC marking. This regulatory evolution has led to the appearance on the French territory of numerous new products, called "micro-wastewater treatment plant". The present note first provides a focus of the main regulatory evolutions and then proposes a classification of the recently introduced wastewater treatment plants.