EU Wastewater Compliance Records — EEA UWWTD

Keyless. Pay per record. Every urban waste-water treatment plant in Europe, with its treatment and compliance data.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) dataset into clean, per-plant records — the register of urban waste-water treatment plants that member states report under the Directive. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per treatment plant: its code and name, the country and location, the collecting system, the incoming load and capacity, the treatment stages applied, the nutrient-removal and disinfection steps, and the per-parameter performance flags. Facility / treatment grain, structured for engineering use, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, member states report every urban waste-water treatment plant, and the EEA aggregates and publishes the result. This actor reads that register and flattens each treatment plant into a single analysis-ready record: the plant code and name, the country and NUTS region, the coordinates, the collecting-system type, the load entering the plant and its design capacity in population equivalents, which treatment stages it applies (primary, secondary, other), whether it does nitrogen and phosphorus removal and UV / chlorination / ozonation / filtration, the compliance-performance flags for BOD5, COD, TSS, and total N and P, and the waste-water treated and reused figures. It is the facility-level compliance layer of Europe's waste-water infrastructure. Values are exactly as reported. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• Environmental-compliance, water-utility, and infrastructure teams mapping treatment plants by country, capacity, treatment level, and compliance performance.
• ESG and due-diligence products assessing waste-water treatment coverage and performance across a region or operator footprint.
• Researchers and NGOs studying treatment levels, nutrient removal, and compliance across the EU.
• Data engineers who want the UWWTD plant register as clean rows without writing SQL against the EEA service or paging a large table.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. This rider is carried in this README and on every single record. The data is treatment-plant compliance data as reported by member states — not a compliance verdict, an enforcement action, or a real-time reading.

Facility grain — no person data

This actor works at facility/treatment grain: the unit of every record is a treatment plant. The plant name (plant_name) is a facility name, not a person, and the dataset carries no natural-person fields; this actor emits none. A person-key guard runs on every record as a pure backstop. The plant, its location, its treatment configuration, and its performance flags are the entire payload.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "ATTP_1-00000001",
  "plant_code": "ATTP_1-00000001",
  "plant_name": "Andau",
  "country_code": "AT",
  "agglomeration_code": "ATAG_1-00000001",
  "nuts_code": "AT112",
  "latitude": 47.7786670957,
  "longitude": 17.0491364742,
  "collecting_system": "ISCON",
  "load_entering_pe": 4963,
  "capacity_pe": 13500,
  "primary_treatment": "True",
  "secondary_treatment": "True",
  "other_treatment": "True",
  "n_removal": "True",
  "p_removal": "True",
  "uv": "False",
  "chlorination": "False",
  "ozonation": "False",
  "sand_filtration": "False",
  "micro_filtration": "False",
  "bod5_performance": "P",
  "cod_performance": "P",
  "tss_performance": "NR",
  "n_total_performance": "NR",
  "p_total_performance": "NR",
  "bad_performance": null,
  "waste_water_treated": "302591.0",
  "waste_water_reuse": null,
  "specification": null,
  "begin_life": "2006-12-31",
  "end_life": null,
  "inspire_id_facility": null,
  "source": "European Environment Agency (EEA) UWWTD",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) data. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) dataset.",
  "disclaimer": "Urban waste-water treatment-plant compliance records as reported by member states under the UWWTD and published by the EEA. Facility/treatment grain — no natural-person data. Treatment types, capacity, load, and performance values are as reported; not a compliance verdict or an enforcement action.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:34:40Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
treatment_plant_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Optional 2-letter member-state code (e.g. DE, FR, IT).
treatedOnly	boolean	false	Keep only plants that report waste water treated.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per treatment plant. Real example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "DEAG_NW222958",
  "plant_code": "DEAG_NW222958",
  "plant_name": "Tecklenburg-Ledde",
  "country_code": "DE",
  "nuts_code": "DEA37",
  "latitude": 52.2425,
  "longitude": 7.80564,
  "collecting_system": "ISCON",
  "capacity_pe": 8000,
  "primary_treatment": "Y",
  "secondary_treatment": "Y",
  "n_removal": "Y",
  "p_removal": "Y",
  "bod5_performance": "Y",
  "bad_performance": "N",
  "source": "European Environment Agency (EEA) UWWTD",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) ... provided the source is acknowledged ...",
  "disclaimer": "Urban waste-water treatment-plant compliance records ... facility/treatment grain — no natural-person data ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one treatment plant. Identity: record_id / plant_code, plant_name, country_code, agglomeration_code, nuts_code, and inspire_id_facility. Location: latitude and longitude. Capacity and load: collecting_system, load_entering_pe, and capacity_pe (population equivalents). Treatment configuration: primary_treatment, secondary_treatment, other_treatment, n_removal, p_removal, uv, chlorination, ozonation, sand_filtration, and micro_filtration. Compliance performance: bod5_performance, cod_performance, tss_performance, n_total_performance, p_total_performance, and bad_performance. Throughput: waste_water_treated and waste_water_reuse. Lifecycle: specification, begin_life, and end_life. Provenance: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It then queries the UWWTD treatment-plant table through the DiscoData SQL service, pushing your optional countryCode and treatedOnly filters into the query so the dataset is bounded server-side, and pages through the results. Each plant is flattened to one record — reading only facility, treatment, and performance fields, never a person — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The UWWTD treatment-plant table holds on the order of 26,000+ plants across reporting member states. Because each record carries country_code, nuts_code, and the treatment and performance flags, segmenting by country or region and filtering by treatment level or compliance is straightforward. Pass a countryCode to scope to one country (recommended for a focused view), or pull the whole table to build a Europe-wide treatment-compliance map.

Cost guidance

One treatment_plant_record per delivered plant: cost = plants delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryCode to keep runs bounded — one country is typically a few hundred to a few thousand plants. 1,000 plants is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold); the whole ~26,000-plant table is a one-time seed you then keep fresh with small country pulls.

Honest limitations

• Compliance data, not a verdict. These are treatment-plant records as reported by member states — not a compliance judgment, an enforcement action, or a penalty.
• As reported. Treatment configuration and performance flags are exactly as the EEA distributes them; this actor reformats, it does not recompute or audit.
• Acknowledge the EEA. Reuse requires acknowledging the EEA as the source; the acknowledgement travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

Critically, it is distinct from the fleet's Eurostat waste-statistics cells (waste generation and waste treatment), which carry statistical aggregates by country and category — this actor carries facility-level compliance records, plant by plant, with the treatment configuration and per-parameter performance. Aggregates answer "how much waste, by country"; this answers "which plant, at what capacity, treating to what level, compliant on which parameters." It is also distinct from the fleet's industrial-emissions facility register (IED installations ≠ waste-water plants).

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Industrial Emissions Records — EEA IED Facilities
• EU Vehicle CO2 Records — EEA New-Car Monitoring
• EU Regulatory Change Records — CELLAR
• Air Quality Monitor Records — US EPA AQS
• EPA Facility Compliance Records — Envirofacts

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) dataset (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. Facility/treatment compliance data, not a compliance verdict. Facility grain; no person data of any kind.