The plant is designed and constructed to treat the wastewater of the Greater Area of Bucharest including some industrial wastewater.

The plant with hydraulic capacity of 10m3/s, 5m3/s of which is treated in the biological stage and treatment capacity of approximately 1,750,000 Equivalent Population.

The wastewater treatment consists of: preliminary treatment (coarse and fine screening, grit removal), primary treatment (primary sedimentation) and biological treatment including Nitrogen and Phosphorous removal, sludge treatment facilities (thickening, anaerobic digestion, dewatering), as well as a co-generation plant which utilizes the biogas generated from the anaerobic digestion process.

The client was the Bucharest Municipality.