Legal certainty in the sewer

A lot has hap­pened among sup­pli­ers of envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion solu­tions since the last IFAT. At COAL­SI’s booth B3.428, you will now find new, legal­ly com­pli­ant bait sta­tions as well as an expand­ed range of odor fil­ters for sew­ers and waste­water treat­ment plants.

A small sen­sa­tion is the new bait sta­tion FZV30 devel­oped by pest con­troller Andreas Vol­lack, which the com­pa­ny sells. It was test­ed a few days ago by the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment for the con­trol of harm­ful rodents in accor­dance with § 18 Infec­tion Pro­tec­tion Act and found to be good.

It is the design that makes it so spe­cial: even in the event of flood­ing, it is ensured that the poi­so­nous baits (water-pol­lut­ing roden­ti­cides) are not washed out. This is the Achilles’ heel of con­ven­tion­al meth­ods on the mar­ket. In addi­tion, the bait sta­tion is con­sid­ered durable because it does not require any vul­ner­a­ble mechan­ics, electrics or elec­tron­ics. The sta­tion can even be secure­ly fas­tened to slop­ing berms. The bait sta­tion is loaded from road lev­el with­out direct man­u­al con­tact by means of a rotat­ing rod. The Bavar­i­ans will also be show­ing road gul­lies with inte­grat­ed bait sta­tions: a com­plete­ly new option for rodent con­trol that was pre­vi­ous­ly unavail­able to munic­i­pal­i­ties. Every­thing can be mon­i­tored elec­tron­i­cal­ly via QR codes.

The com­pa­ny has also gone one step fur­ther in com­bat­ing sewage odors. The prod­uct range has been expand­ed. The man­u­fac­tur­er sees its hybrid triple fil­ters as a step for­ward in terms of effec­tive­ness com­pared with the mar­ket. They con­sist of a bio­log­i­cal, chem­i­cal and mechan­i­cal fil­ter stage. The high­light is the “odor-eat­ing” bac­te­ria. They metab­o­lize the odor­ants and thus elim­i­nate them com­plete­ly. The fil­ters are avail­able for man­holes and street drains as well as for pipe mount­ing. They are not path­o­gen­ic to humans, plants or ani­mals and are there­fore harm­less to health.

For sewage treat­ment plants, pump­ing sta­tions and trans­fer points, the “Vol­u­men­max” is a large-scale sys­tem that is also used in indus­try. It is supe­ri­or to con­ven­tion­al solu­tions in many sce­nar­ios and is often more cost-effec­tive, it said. Vis­i­tors to the booth can find out about an inter­est­ing fur­ther devel­op­ment with new appli­ca­tion scenarios.