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Screenshot of the video, showing the output of 8.3 thousand cubic meters of fecal water per day in Lake Varna.
The sewer pipe, which caused a lot of pollution in Lake Varna last year, is again cracked. This was announced this afternoon by the press center of the Varna municipality, without specifying the amount of toxic fecal water, which has begun to flow back into the lake.
“In connection with a notification received from” ViK – Varna “on 01.15.2021, which reported” abnormal readings in the devices that record pressure and flow during operation of the Asparuhovo pumping units “, the same day as the Varna municipality ordered the company “Hydroremont IG” Ltd., which is repairing the oil pipeline on Lake Varna, to inspect the facility, “the local administration said in a statement.
According to its text, a confirmation was received today from the company “Hidroremont IG” OOD, which repaired the pipe in the summer and autumn of last year, which during an inspection were found
“Crack and partial leakage of sewage”.
In the middle of last week (January 21 this year) or exactly seven days after notifying the Municipality of Varna about the new accident with the oil pipeline, in a conversation with journalists, the director of Vik – Varna Valentin Valkanov denied having received information about that. The announcement issued today by the Press Center of the local administration means that Vulkanov was silent about the new spill of fecal water into the lake, even though he knew about it. From January 15 until now
Varna Mayor Ivan Portnih also kept quiet about the new accident.
Already in the middle of last week, Dnevnik received information from his sources about the new accident. Immediately afterwards, questions were sent to the municipal press center about the condition of the pipeline and the possible amount of new contamination. From there, however, they chose to reply only today, by email to all media. We remind you that after the accident in the summer of 2019, after which for more than a year in Lake Varna more than 8 thousand cubic meters of fecal water were poured per day, the Mayor of Varna Ivan Portnih
keep what happened secret for 10 months,
until it was made public through publications in the media.
All about pollution and the reasons that led to it, here.
What questions arose from the murky bottom of Lake Varna? Here.
On January 14 of this year Deputy Mayor of Varna Hristo Ivanov announced in a special briefing (reconvened, after questions from “Dnevnik”) that the repair of the broken sewer pipe has been temporarily suspended. According to the deputy mayor of Varna after the repair in the summer of last year. the interrupted pipe was left open and unprotected at the bottom of the lake, just as it was laid. The reason for this was that the trench for his burial could only be dug after the deepening of the lake, undertaken by the government with
budget of 350 million BGN
The project was also currently suspended because there was a problem with the composition of the soil mass at the bottom, which could not be excavated.
Ivanov’s report was triggered by the following media posts about the silent accident with the pipeline in 2019. They made public the fact that in 2014-2015 in the municipality of Varna they knew that the sewer was a “time bomb”, but they haven’t. nothing to prevent large-scale pollution since summer 2019.
The sewer pipeline across Lake Varna was built as part of a larger project to improve the city’s water cycle worth € 5 million excluding VAT. Approximately 75% of them are financed by the European Union under the ISPA program. The execution began in 2009 and after a series of vicissitudes, delays and extensions, they ended in December 2011. According to the project documentation, the pipeline had to be laid
at least 3 meters below the bottom of the lake.
But all the inspections, as well as the sonar photos from his exam, taken in 2014 and after last year’s accident. showed that this was not done. In the construction control documentation, the unburied pipeline was described as part of the so-called “hidden activities” at the bottom of the lake, the implementation of which could not be verified.
For the “hidden things” on Lake Varna – here.
