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Most finances, more than CZK 36 million, will be invested into the continuing reconstruction of the biggest water treatment plant near the Beskydy Mountains in Nová Ves u Frýdlantu nad Ostravicí.

Ostrava, 15 January 2019. More than CZK 73 million will be invested in 2019 into the backbone system used for production and distribution of drinking water in the region: the Ostrava Area Water Network. Almost CZK 4 million will be invested into water supplies in towns and villages and about CZK 55 million will be spent into discharge and treatment of wastewater.

“In case of the Ostrava Area Water Network, the modernisation of the water treatment plant in Nová Ves will continue. Almost CZK 130 million will be invested there and works should be finished in 2020. Another investment there is reconstruction of the key water conduit for the region of Frýdek-Místek: Chlebovice - Staříč - Bělá. This is an extensive project that will affect about nine kilometres of 500 mm dia. pipeline and related infrastructure. Trenchless technologies will be used mostly as they have little influence only on the surface. This project should be completed in 2021”, explains Anatol Pšenička, Managing Director of SmVaK Ostrava.

Modernisation worth CZK 130 million will continue in the water treatment plant in Nová Ves. Extensive upgrades will be performed there in machinery and power supply installations and a new automated control system will be installed there. The project will continue until the second half of 2020. Technology facilities and structures will be modernised too in the big filter hall which is the heart of the water treatment plant.

More than eight million CZK will be invested into reconstruction of the water inflow facility in the water reservoir in Bruzovice which receives the water from the water treatment plant in Nová Ves and supplies it to consumers in the regions of Frýdek-Místek and Havířov.

Water reservoirs, water supplies, sewers, wastewater treatment plants and related infrastructure will be modernised in many towns and villages in the region of Frýdek-Místek.

"For instance, 1,350 m of water supply made from ductile cast iron will be reconstructed in Stará Ves nad Ondřejnicí - the pressure and capacity are not satisfactory there because the pipe is clogged with scales.  This project will cost approximately CZK 14 million. In Baška – Hodoňovice 820 m of pipes laid in the early 1950s will be reconstructed. The cost of this project will be almost CZK 7 million and works will be coordinated with the scheduled reconstruction of the road and construction of rain water sewer and pavements.
In the lower part of Staříč, more than 700 m of polyethylene pipeline will be replaced. The pipeline was laid in the 1970s and failures have been occurring there often. Trenchless technologies will be used for more than 630 m in order to minimise negative impacts on quality of people living in nearby houses. More than CZK 4 million will be invested there.
In Dobrá next to the railway line where the municipality has planned repair of the local road more than CZK 3 million will be spent into reconstruction of the water supply. 370 m of pipelines will be also replaced there.
In Frýdek-Místek the costs of modernisation of water pipelines in the Dobrovského, J Skupy and Heydukova streets will exceed CZK 3 million. In Třinec the water supply in the Lidická street will be replaced and reconstruction will start in the water supply laid in the U Splavu street.

Structural changes and changes in technology facilities have been planned for the water treatment plants in Frýdek-Místek, Třinec and Jablunkov.

“The wastewater facility in Jablunkov has reached its limit capacity. New consumers can be connected only after the intensity of the plant is increased. This is, in particular, the case of the biological treatment (the activation tank) and sludge system (capacity of mechanical sludge removal needs to be increased). CZK 7 million will be invested there”, says Jan Tlolka, Director of Sewage Systems in SmVaK Ostrava.
More than CZK 5 million will be invested in the wastewater treatment plant for reconstruction of a cogeneration unit that generates electricity and heat from gas which releases from the wastewater treatment sludge. Modernisation of the sludge dewatering system will start – it will continue then in 2020.
In the wastewater treatment plant in Frýdek-Místek CZK 10 million will be invested – a facility for mechanical thickening of sludge will be installed there.
Other investments in Frýdek-Místek include modernisation of the sewage systems in the Riegerova, Bavlnářská and Dobrovského streets. Total costs will exceed CZK 5 million. The sewage system will be reconstructed in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí (the Hukvaldská street) and Třinec (in Borek).

Almost 530 m of sewers in Třinec will be reconstructed using the trenchless technology where an inverse liner will be installed into the existing sewers. The costs will exceed CZK 8.5 million.
Since 1995 SmVaK Ostrava has invested more than CZK 11 billion into infrastructure. From the long-term perspective, the investments have been going up. Since 2008 more than a half billion has been invested each year. This year, it is planned to invest CZK 657 million. And more billions have been invested into repairs in the past twenty years.

Contact:

Mgr. Marek Síbrt, mluvčí

Severomoravské vodovody a kanalizace Ostrava a.s.

28. října 1235/169, Mariánské Hory, 709 00 Ostrava.

tel. 725 500 509

e-mail marek.sibrt@smvak.cz
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