MAXIMA - A regional wastewater treatment system

Southwest Skåne is growing. Our wastewater infrastructure has not kept pace. There is an urgent need to expand and modernise it in several municipalities. This is why VA SYD is helping provide a regional solution – the MAXIMA wastewater treatment system. 

The MAXIMA infrastructure investment is a shared regional solution for sustainable, robust wastewater treatment for the future. A new Sjölunda wastewater treatment plant forms the hub of the wastewater treatment system and will receive and treat wastewater from the municipalities of Burlöv, Lomma, Malmö and Svedala. 

This is MAXIMA

The MAXIMA wastewater treatment system includes a new Sjölunda wastewater treatment plant on the outskirts of Malmö next to the Öresund with new outlet pipes into the Öresund, a large new pumping station at Sjölunda, a wastewater tunnel beneath Malmö, and transfer pipes and the necessary pumping stations to connect the municipalities of Burlöv, Lomma and Svedala to the Sjölunda wastewater treatment plant.

MAXIMA enables more people to live and work in the region. With this infrastructure investment, we are addressing the challenges of rapid population growth, climate change and an obsolete wastewater system. 

The benefits of a shared solution 

Expansion and modernisation involve high costs and advanced technologies that require new skills. It would be difficult for a municipality to do it itself. With a shared wastewater treatment system, we generate more benefit at a lower cost. Water knows no municipal boundaries.   

To allow local residents to understand how the infrastructure investment creates benefits and meets needs, VA SYD has formulated and decided on five benefits that drive the planning of the regional wastewater treatment system. Read more about the benefits here.