During an off-site meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, the implementation of the "Clean Water" subprogram and the handling of solid municipal waste (SMW) in the Vitebsk region were reviewed.
Members of the board, led by the Minister of Housing and Communal Services Gennady Trubilo, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexey Geroev, Chairman of the Polotsk District Executive Committee Igor Markovitch, and Head of the Main Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Regional Executive Committee Yuri Dyadelo, laid flowers at the monument to the liberators of Polotsk.
The board members familiarized themselves with the implementation of the "Clean Water" subprogram using the example of the agro-town of Zhernoseki, Polotsk District. Here, after reconstruction, the treatment facilities were put into operation. The General Director of Vitebskvodokanal, Alexey Khvalko, also informed the participants of the event about the implementation of the "Clean Water" subprogram in the Vitebsk region. It is being successfully implemented, which was the reason for holding the board meeting in the Vitebsk region. By the end of next year, Vitebskvodokanal plans to provide high-quality drinking water to all consumers with whom the enterprise has concluded contracts.
The next facility was the construction of the "Novopolotsk Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Complex." The complex is designed to serve Polotsk and Novopolotsk, as well as Polotsk, Rossony, and Ushachi districts. On an area of 27 hectares, a system for sorting, processing, and landfilling waste will be concentrated.
– The site will feature composting, crushing, and sorting areas. The project includes the construction of access roads, artesian wells, fire reservoirs, and leachate storage tanks, as well as a weighbridge and a checkpoint, – said Sergey Velyugo, Director of UP "Biomekhzavod of Household Secondary Resources." – The landfill will also house a production building with canopies and extensions. It will contain a production and technical area for vehicle maintenance and a boiler room. Sorted secondary material resources will be stored under the canopies.