Atlantis System, a solution for the management of rainwater

Atlantis System, a solution for the management of rainwater

Continuous cementation, coupled with ever-increasing settlement densities, although necessary for human development, is causing major changes in surface and groundwater regimes.

Another aspect to consider is climate change, with rising temperatures affecting weather patterns. The most obvious effects of this climatic trend are more violent and intense rainfall in very concentrated periods, followed by longer periods without rainfall and consequent droughts. This extremisation of phenomena is leading to a significant increase in the likelihood of flooding due to increasingly severe and sudden floods.

Soil sealing primarily prevents rainwater from being absorbed into the soil, shortening run-off time and causing the water to reach the receiving water body much more abruptly. Some of the resulting problems are

Reduction in water reserves

Less rainwater is received, and aquifers are lowered, with the risk of them drying up.

Sewer Overload

A sudden increase in the volume of water to be disposed of can jeopardise the functioning of a system, resulting in flooding and social costs.

Water quality

As water flows through urban areas, it becomes increasingly polluted, leading to greater waste of drinking water.

Flood risk

On a larger scale, river basins can also collapse, causing flooding, often with tragic consequences.

In a context where hydraulic invariance has become a standard in new construction, and consequently in the construction of water harvesting and lamination tanks, the Atlantis System offers a practical and effective solution for their realization.

Thanks to the Atlantis System, it is possible to construct rainwater harvesting tanks, spreading tanks and water recycling greenhouses. The reinforced concrete tanks are made up of a bottom slab, perimeter walls and a top slab supported by columns, and are designed to support different types of loads, such as pedestrian walkways, landscaped areas or car parks.

They can be installed under forecourts, roads and car parks, both commercial and industrial, and are designed to mitigate the effects of flooding caused by exceptional meteorological events. In this way, the drainage capacity of the ground, which had been taken away by concrete, is restored without any visual or environmental impact.

Legislation in the field of water protection emphasizes the need for the construction of catchment and dispersion basins to avert the risk of flooding, not to mention the growing importance of sustainable land transformation.

Public authorities, for example, can gain considerable benefits from the construction of rainwater dispersion basins: firstly, the groundwater table is recharged rather than depleted; secondly, there is no need to oversize the sewerage network in relation to the expansion of the city; and finally, a cost-benefit analysis relating to an area - municipality, province, river basin - can allow the implementation of a complete hydrogeological rehabilitation plan, thereby significantly reducing the risk of flooding.