Public Consultation: Research on the use of infiltration boreholes

Urbanization is increasing all over the world but cities’ storm-water infrastructure is generally not being upgraded at the same pace, resulting in ooding during storm events. In urban areas, spaces that were traditionally allocated for rainwater reservoirs are becoming scarce.

This  project  will  carry  out  research  on  the  innovative  idea  of  using  boreholes  to  divert  runoff  from  roofs  of buildings into the ground and develop a product (the GEO-INF system) that will meet the dual objectives of ood mitigation and groundwater recharge, while taking up minimum space and set-up costs.

The research will focus on deriving raw data on the permeability and water-ltration characteristics of geological
formations, the development of a low-cost ltration/recharge system and a methodology for the drilling of the
inltration boreholes.

The GEO-INF system has the potential to become the state-of-the-art for buildings that cannot incorporate a
cistern, and a retrot solution to already-built buildings without cisterns.

This research project has now reached its second year and the consortium behind this project would like to
announce their preliminary ndings in a public consultation scheduled for Tuesday 4th of September at Villa
Bighi at 2:30pm.

We are therefore kindly inviting you to attend to this event which will include a detailed presentation by the project coordinator; Ing. Marco Cremona on behalf of Sustech Consulting as well as representatives from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Malta, Solid Base Lab. Ltd., Malta Resources Authority (MRA) and St. Theresa College.

This Public Consultation is open to the general public as well as those organisations and companies who can
contribute and benet from this research.