Given the growing number of contaminated sites identified in large urban areas, it is of crucial importance the evolution and development of treatment processes for these sites, targeting the reduction of environmental and human health risks related to soil and groundwater contamination. The main goal of this dissertation is to evaluate the efficiency of various processing methods that could be applied in the treatment of contaminated groundwater, including the ozonation and activated sludge utilization. For that, jar tests were conducted in the laboratory of Institute of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, at Braunschweig Technical University, in Germany, in three steps. The first step performed a biological treatment utilizing the activated sludge only which was collected from sewage treatment plants for the biodegradation of organic compounds present in effluents, both artificial and industrial, which simulated the effluent from a contaminated site treatment system. The second step utilized as treatment method, for the same effluent, an ozonation process, promoting the chemical oxidation of the contaminants. At last, a combination of both methods was tested where the ozonation was done prior to the biodegradation. The objective of this step was to evaluate the additional results of the biodegradation of the effluent when an ozonation process is done first. The results showed, in addiction of the color removal from the effluent, a larger reduction of DQO when both techniques are combined, suggesting that the combination can be a good alternative for treatment of high complexity wastewater.