After the cancellation, the procedure for the supervision of the water pipes for the strategic ones in the South is opened again

2024-05-21 12:08:00, Aktualitet CNA

After the cancellation, the procedure for the supervision of the water pipes for

Illustrative photo

The National Water, Sewerage Agency opened this Tuesday again the tender with the object of the contract "Supervision of works for the object: "Water supply of coastal areas, strategic investment areas, Draleos, Drimadhe and Dhërmi of the Municipality of Himarë", Phase II.

This procedure has been opened for the second time in a few days because the first one was cancelled.

In the AKUM system, it specifies that the cancellation came "because the tender documents contain errors or significant deficiencies".

The tender foresees the supervision for the procedure opened earlier that envisages making investments in water supply and sewerage to adapt to the developments in the South of the country under some decisions for strategic investors who are building strategic villages.

Earlier in April, AKUM opened the tender that provides for the procedure "Water supply to coastal areas; Strategic Investment Areas Draleos, Drimadhe and Dhërmi of the Municipality of Himara, Phase II" with a limited fund of 372 million ALL, or about 3.6 million euros. This procedure is a continuation of the one opened at the end of 2023, where in the first phase, the limit fund provided at that time was 743 million ALL, or more than 7 million euros.

According to the documents accompanying the project, it includes the entire area announced through the Decision of the National Council of the Territory No. 2, Date 16.10.2017 "Area of ??strategic investments in places of national importance for the development of tourism" Draleos-Drimadhes-Dhermi, listing the projects from Palasa to Dhërmi. The document also makes an assessment of the resources that these areas currently have.

Earlier, the same calculations indicated that a water supply capacity of no less than 290 l/s would be required to cope with the influx of tourists.

"The request is to provide a quantity of no less than 290 l/s, which will be used to supply water to the new tourist complexes in the village of Palas through a new water supply system. The amount of 290 l/s is predicted for the peak of tourists during the hot season of the year, where in addition to an amount of 150 l/s per resident, a much larger amount of water is needed.

This quantity consists in the overpopulation of the area, especially along the coastline. A tourist normally takes 30% more water than usual. If we also add the amount of water for the needs of public tourist services, the expectation for the expansion, or the construction of other tourist complexes, then the rate per tourist goes over 250 l/s; so the necessary and required amount of 290 l/s is more than argued. We also take into account the losses in the network calculated at no less than 20-30%", it is stated in the technical-hydrological report of the project.

The document underlined that there is a need for intervention in the source of "Izvor" to ensure the amount of 290 l/s. Therefore, he states that for this purpose, the construction of a new catchment is needed in the southern part of the collecting channel of the source's effluents.

Strategies of tourist villages

Over the years, the government, through the Strategic Investments Committee, has granted status to a number of investments that, although designed as tourist complexes, in a good number of cases have ended up in residential villa complexes.

Through the benefit of the status , investors gain ease both in obtaining land and in easing bureaucratic procedures, but also in investments related to infrastructure and access to energy and water, something that is being applied in this case as well./Monitor