The government transferred 8.2 million euros to the Municipality of Durra for the sewerage in Porto-Romano

2023-09-06 07:12:00, Aktualitet CNA

The government transferred 8.2 million euros to the Municipality of Durra for

The Council of Ministers decided at the end of August to transfer a fund worth 892 million ALL, for the rehabilitation of canals in the area of ??Porto-Romano, Kneta and the rainwater network in the city of Durrës. As following the government's decision, funding in Porto-Romano and Ish Kënetë will be focused on the construction, supervision and approval of the infrastructure of the drainage network, which includes the agricultural canals which, with the population of the area after the 1990s, "changed destination" and in addition to rainwater, waste water is discharged there without interruption.

A BIRN investigation, published a few weeks before the government's decision, found that despite investments of tens of millions of euros and Prime Minister Edi Rama's plans to turn Durrës into a "little Dubai", only 54% of the city was covered by canals of polluted water, while the rest is discharged into nature and ends up in the sea. Environmental experts pointed out that the lack of sewerage causes high organic pollution of surface waters as a result of untreated urban discharges and the values ??exceed the allowed rate at the monitoring station in Porto-Romano.

The government's decision to intervene in this infrastructure was taken on August 30 and came as an additional point to the decision taken earlier on September 18, 2021, through which it was decided to transfer the fund worth 398 million lek to the Durra Municipality without VAT The investment fund was taken from the reconstruction budget and the entire intervention is expected to cost 1.9 billion lek or about 18.4 million euros.

The areas of the city where the largest number of the population is concentrated, such as Shkozeti, Ish-Këneta, Porto-Romano and Spitalla, for the most part pour the water used from homes and businesses into open agricultural canals, which end in back to the sea. Also, the Durrës Water-Sewage pumping station in Ish Kënetë discharges the wastewater into the agricultural canal, then ending up in the sea through the hydrovor in Porto-Romano. While the city continues to face flooding in cases of heavy rains, polluting the city's streets with sewage, due to overflowing sewers and wells, since sewage and rainwater are collected in the same sewer network./ reporter.al