Riko in charge of the wastewater draining and cleaning project in Cerknica and Rakek
16. 7. 2013
Riko and the Cerknica Municipality signed a contract for the
implementation of the Wastewater discharge and cleaning project in the
river basin of Ljubljanica – 2nd scope.
The purpose of the Waste water discharge and cleaning project in the
river basin of Ljubljanica – 2nd scope (Cerknica municipality) that will
be implemented by Riko is to solve the problem od faecal wastewater
discharge and cleaning we are fighting against for years, because of its
negative effect on the environment and people’s health. Within this
project sewage system lines and a cleaning plant will be built. The
project’s location is on the territory of the Rakek settlement in the
Cerknica municipality, where there is still no wastewater discharge and
cleaning system.
In frames of the Wastewater discharge and
treatment projects in the river basin of Ljubljanica (2nd scope) the
Cerknica municipality will invest into solving the wastewater discharge
and cleaning problem in the Rakek settlement. The purpose of the
investment is the construction of an appropriate infrastructure for
discharge and cleaning of wastewater on territories where the state
programme has foreseen a sewage system in accordance with the European
directives in the field of discharge and cleaning of waste water, a
pre-accession treaty and the goal to decrease the environmental impacts.
Thanks
to this project the Rakek settlement will receive a 14,583 m long
sewage system, 8 waste water pumping stations and a waste water
treatment plant with the capacity of 4,000 PE and by the end of 2015 the
Cerknica municipality will connect 1,628 new inhabitants and 594
business units from the economic sector to the sewage system and the
exact same number of inhabitants and business units to the cleaning
plant. By the end of 2015 the percentage of homes and business units
connected to the sewage system and cleaning plant will increase to
96,45%.
The contract signing was followed by a press conference
hosting the representatives of Riko d.o.o. (main contractor), Godina
d.o.o., Pirc gradnje d.o.o. and the representative of the construction
work supervisor Proplus d.o.o. At this conference Cerknica’s mayor Marko
Rupar pointed out that this project investment will have a direct
influence and effect on the quality of drinking water and people’s
health, development and income from tourism, the value of real estates,
agriculture, decrease of pollution in settlements and the environment,
on the aesthetic value and recreational opportunities. We can expect
that all of this will have a positive effect on the development of the
countryside in this part of Slovenia.
The value of the entire
River basin of Ljubljanica project adds up to 10,836,171 euros and is
partially financed by the Republic of Slovenia (1,102,571.08 euros),
from the EU Cohesion Fund (Operational programme of environmental and
traffic infrastructure development for the period 2007-2013, the
developmental priorities »Environmental protection – water sector«,
priority guidelines »Waste water discharge and cleaning« (6,247,902.76
euros)) and partially by the Cerknica municipality (3,485,697.16 euros).
The project is to be finished by the end of 2015.