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WWTP in Háj is going to get additional capacity to possibly connect other locations

Thanks to a project for more than 10 million Czech crowns, it will be possible, if needed, to connect for example Mokré Lazce, Štítina or Nové Sedlice to the extended wastewater treatment plant...

An important investment project has started in the WWTP in Nový Jičín

Construction of a rainwater basin and reconstruction of rough treatment will cost eighteen million Czech crowns. It will be completed by the end of the year. Ostrava 27. 6. 2017 –...

WWTP in Karviná will remove nitrogen from wastewater more efficiently

At the end of the second week in June the site was handed over to the contractor and an important modernization project started. Investment will reach five million Czech crowns and it...

WWTP in Frýdek-Místek will have its heart better aerated

Thanks to a repair for six million Czech crowns the waste water treatment plant will get 2406 aeration elements for aeration and agitation of aero-tanks Ostrava 13. 6. 2017 - ...

Hundreds of people visited SmVaK Ostrava’s plants

The water treatment plant in Nová Ves u Frýdlantu nad Ostravicí and four wastewater treatment plants opened their doors on the World Water Day. Both children and parents were introduced to...

VWTP in Opava is more efficient now in treatment of sludge. The investment cost CZK 51 million.

A new 2,000 m 3 digestion tank was built, among others, on the site. Sludge can be now treated with higher efficiency and other options exist for reuse of such sludge. Ostrava, 21...

SmVaK supports its employees who help in non-profit activities

This year, SmVaK Ostrava will distribute CZK 200,000 within the programme “Plaveme v tom spolu!" that focuses on those employees who care for quality of other people’s lives in places where...

New issue of the quarterly Z první ruky

The winter edition of the SmVaK Ostrava’s quarterly, Z první ruky (At First Hand), has been published. The main topic is the route of drinking water from big water reservoirs in the Ostrava Area...

What is not needed helps those who are in need

Just before the Christmas, 370 kg of used clothes were collected. Income from sale of used clothes in second hand shops will help, for instance, to Ondrášek, the mobile palliative care...

More than a half-billion CZK to be invested in 2017. Water tariffs will remain below the Czech average.

Water tariff and sewage charge will increase by 1.09% next year, reaching 78.73 CZK per cubic meter. Ostrava, 22 November 2016. Severomoravské vodovody a kanalizace Ostrava is gong to...

The unique game about water comes back to schools

The inspiring game about importance of water for a man and nature, Tree of Life , was a great success in spring and now, in the new school year, it will be played in other grammar schools in...

SmVaK Ostrava has new customer and emergency lines

As of 1 October the customers of the water company can call the customer and emergency lines for free Ostrava, 27 September 2016. SmVaK Ostrava decided to take another measure in...

SmVaK Ostrava will operate the wastewater network in Dolní Domaslavice

SmVaK Ostrava won the concession tender and as of 1 October it will operate the wastewater network in a town next to the Žermanice Dam Wastewater will be supplied into the wastewater treatment...

School children are excited to play the unique educational game The Tree of Life

Children at grammar schools in the Moravian-Silesian Region are excited to play the interactive game that teach them to understand importance of water for people and nature. Thanks to...

New issue of the quarterly Z první ruky

We are happy to inform you that we are launching the second issue of the quarterly Z první ruky which offers the latest information about SmVaK and news about water business. .

SmVaK takes special measures to reduce its carbon foot print

5,500 tons of CO 2 is not released each year because SmVaK has been using residual gas in cogeneration units and the hydro energy potential of water in small hydraulic power plants. ...