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project info
Start date: 20 September 2023
End date: 30 December 2025
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 2 325 363,06 €
EU contribution: 1 570 608,57 € (83%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

Improvement of sewage infrastructure and sewage treatment plants in the Skołyszyn agglomeration.

The project includes tasks related to the construction of the sanitary sewage network in Harklowa, modernization of the sewage treatment plant in Przysieki and implementation of an intelligent water and sewage network management system. These are activities that, in the Municipality's planning documents, constitute designated development directions for responsible shaping of space and infrastructure conducive to territorial and social cohesion and environmental protection. The tasks are in line with the VI ACPOŚK, as the main instrument for the implementation of Council Directive 91/271/EEC, with regard to the construction of a 1.73 km long sewage network in Harklow and the modernisation of the waste water treatment plant in Przysieki. This is an independent wastewater management project. There is no provision for water supply infrastructure. The implementation of the project concerns the management of sewage sludge. The project is a response to the needs of the Skołyszyn Agglomeration in terms of achieving the level of sewerage in accordance with the Wastewater Directive. Currently, the level of sewage is 67.51%. The investment will lead to an increase in the degree of sewerage of the agglomeration, for which procedures for updating the boundaries are currently underway (exclusion of localities with a low concentration rate) to the required level of 90.47% (the condition required by the Wastewater Directive regarding the efficiency of the treatment plant will not be met, although by increasing the amount of wastewater supplied, the operating parameters of the treatment plant will be improved). As a result of the modernization of this wastewater treatment plant, as well as an increase in the amount of wastewater affecting the plant, the standard of their treatment will also improve, which in turn will ensure compliance with the condition of the Directive. The scope of the investment also includes the installation of a PV installation on a 50kWp treatment plant (currently there is a 30kWp PV installation on the plant) and its thermal modernisation. The receiver of sewage treated from the sewage treatment plant in Przysieki is the river Ropa, which is a left-bank tributary of Wisłoki. The protection of the River Ropa by reducing pollution by, among others, municipal wastewater is also the protection of the Vistula, and further the Vistula and the Baltic Sea, hence the important actions aimed at improving the quality of the waters of Ropa by increasing the amount of treated wastewater. Insufficiently solved wastewater management, including equipment for agglomerations that do not meet the requirements of the Wastewater Directive, is one of the most important threats to the environment, which leads to pollution primarily of soil, surface water and groundwater. Currently, sewage from unscanned households in the agglomeration is discharged into drainless reservoirs or through a settling tank with a very different retention period into drainage ditches. Most sewage tanks and settlers were already built as absorbent wells, without maintaining tightness, in order to reduce the amount of sewage exported by the slurry tanker. Leakage of backyard reservoirs will lead to groundwater contamination and lead to a number of diseases in residents using water intakes based on a polluted groundwater reservoir. Untreated waste water entering directly into receivers will contribute to further degradation of surface water. The effects can be irreversible for the environment and worsen the comfort and health of residents. The overall objective of the project is to protect and improve the state of the environment, including water resources, through effective wastewater management. Achievement of this objective will result from the implementation of the project, which will allow to achieve all 3 conditions required by the Wastewater Directive (% of sewage will increase, the capacity of the treatment plant in the agglomeration in p.e. is 9778 and is greater than the size of the proposed agglomeration, i.e. 5141 p.e. and the standards of the wastewater treatment plant will be met), and above all reduce environmental pollution through the development of wastewater infrastructure and improvement of the state of wastewater management.

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