Wss-001 the Development of the Water Supply And
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PROJECT CONCEPT FICHE #WSS-001 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SYSTEMS IN COMRAT MUNICIPALITY MLPS project co-financed by Implemented by 1: CONTEXT: This project concept is one of the major priorities of the Regional Sector Program (RSP) for Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) in the Administrative Territorial Unit (ATU) Găgăuzia for the period of 2018-2025. The Regional Sector Program for Water Supply and Sanitation in the ATU Găgăuzia, approved by the Regional Council for Regional Development on the 5th of July 2018, has been elaborated by the Regional Development Agency (RDA) of ATU Găgăuzia with the financial and methodological assistance of the GIZ Project ”Modernization of Local Public Services” and it is based on a detailed analisys of current situation in the sector, in compliance with the main documents for strategic national, regional and local, as follows: National Strategy for Water Supply and Sanitation [2014-2028] National Environmental Strategy [2014-2023] National Strategy for Regional Development [2016-2020] Strategy for Regional Development of the ATU Găgăuzia [2017-2020] Socio-Economic Development Strategy for the ATU Găgăuzia [2017 – 2022] Socio-Economic Development Strategy for Comrat Municipality [2017-2022] 2: LOCATION: This project concept is proposing an investment in Comrat Municipality and the its peri-urban area, composed of several neighbouring rural localities (approx. 45,000 inhabitants per total). Comrat Municipality (26.2 thousands inhabitants, according to the Local Public Authorities (LPA) estimations) – is the administrative centre and also the biggest locality within the ATU Găgăuzia. Comrat Municipality is located at approx. 100 km south of Chișinău Municipality, on the international itinerary Chișinău – Ismail. 2 Within the context of this project cocept, it ia also under analisys the adjacent area of Comrat, which includesalso at least 4 rural localities, as follows: Chirsova (7.1 thousands inhabitants) Bugeac (1.6 thousands inhabitants), Dezghingea (5.2 thousands inhabitants) and Beșalma (5 thousands inhabitants). 3: IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS: The implementation of this project concept will involve a partnership composed of the following entities: City Hall of Comrat Municipality (+ local water and sewage systems operator, ÎM ”Su-Canal”); City Hall of Chirsova village (+ local water and sewage systems operator, ÎM ”Eni Canal”); City Hall of Bugeac village (+ local water and sewage systems operator, ÎM ”Bugeac Sularî”); City Hall of Dezghingea village (+ local water and sewage systems operator, ÎM ”Tertiplic”); City Hall of Beșalma village (+ local water and sewage systems operator, ÎM ”Cezliuc”); Regional Development Agency (RDA) of ATU Găgăuzia. 4: THE SCOPE AND PROJECT OBJECTIVES: The scope of this project concept consists of 100% coverage of population from Comrat municipality and adjacent localities with water and wastewater qualitative services. For reaching this scope, the project concept will need to achieve the following objectives: Construction in Comrat municipality of a regional wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) (which will cover the needs for treatment of wastewater from the municipality as well from all rural adjacent localities); Modernization and extension of water main network in Comrat municipality for 100% coverage of the population; Modernization and extension of sewerage networks in Comrat municipality for 100% coverage of the population (at present – 35% coverage); Extension of the sewerage networks for 100% coverage for the population of Bugeac, Chirsova, Dezghingea and Beșalma villages; The organization of the regional operator. 5: PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: At present, the area of Comrat municipality – the city capital of the ATU Găgăuzia – is defined by an unsatisfactory level of development of the water supply and sanitation services, as follows: Coverage of sewerage services in Comrat municipality is under 35%; The WWTP in Comrat municipality practically is not functioning, all wastewater is directly discharged into the Ialpug River. The WWTP is old and outdated and can not be rebuilt; 3 In Comrat municipality the exisiting water mains have a high level of phisycal and moral wearing out, which is leading to poor services delivered and to high water losses in the networks. Non-Revenue-Water (NRW) is exceeding 60%; The coverage with sewerage services in the neighbouring localities is of 0% in the villages Dezghingea, Chirsova and Beșalma, and of 52% in Bugeac village. In Bugeac village there is no WWTP. There is not an efficient solution to build and operate individual WWTPs in each locality of the area. The local authorities are fully aware that the optimal scenario ist o build and operate a commun infrastructure for the wastewater in the area. 6: EXPECTED RESULTS Fully implementation of the proposed activities will lead to the acheivement of the following results: Full coverage of the area around Comrat municipality (approx. 45,000 inhabitants) with qualitative wastewater treatment services, by constructing and operationg of a regional wastewater treatment plant; Full coverage of the area around Comrat municipality (approx. 45,000 inhabitants) with qualitative sewerage services; Water losses reduction and reduction of the number of breakages to the water main in Comrat municipality, resulting the need for rehabilitation of the water main. Including reduction of the operator’s expenses. Increase of the level of confort in the huseholds in Comrat municipality, and the villages Bugeac, Chirsova, Dezghingea, and Beșalma; Increasing the level of public health protection and reduction of the cases of illness; Reduction of the level of pollution of soil, groundwater and surface water; Full coverage of Comrat municipality with centralized water supply services; Increasing of the specific water consumption from 46 l/capita/day to 110 l/capita/day; Development opportunities for business in the areas covered with water supply and sanitation servicies. 7: DETAILS REGARDING THE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT (EXISTING SITUATION): 7.1: Water Supply System in Comrat Municipality: The water supply in Comrat municipality is done from a groundwater source, composed of 12 water fountains (wells) located near Cioc Maidan village, at 25 km from the city. The extracted water is stored in 2 reservoirs (of 300 m3 each). From these reservoirs, water is pomped in other 2 reservoirs with capacity of 2,500 m3 each, from where it is gravitational distributed to the consumers in the city. In these reservoirs, if needed, water disinfection can be done using chlorine. In the city there are areas which are supplied from 2 wells located within the boundaries of the city. At present, the operator is trying to stop the water supply from these wells and to connect the consumers to the main water source (from the proximity of Cioc Maidan village). The water supply network is divided into two pressure zones, as follows: 4 Zone 1 – supplied with drinking water gravitational from the reservoirs of 2,500 m3 capacity; Zone 2 – supplied with drinking water from the regional pumping station located on Gogol Street, where it is located the reservoir of 1,000 m3 capacity. The pumping station is supplying water to the consumers located on high elevations and to the reservoir of 500 m3 capacity, which is functioning as a contra-reservoir. Rehabilitation of the existing reservoirs of 1,000 m3 capacity, is needed. The water main network has a total length of 126.9 km, including: 14.6 km – from cast iron, bulit during 1957-1960; 9.9 km – from steel, built during 1960’; 8.4 km – from asbestos, built during 1960-1980; 94 km – from polietilene, built during 1999-2017. Water specific average consumption is of 46 l/capita/day. Water supply coverage in Comrat city is of 92,6% from a total number of 8,390 households. Due to the worn aut of the pipes, water losses are high – the level of NRW is of approx. 67%. An indicator which shows the degree of worn out of the netwrok is the Linear Repair Index (LRI), which represents the number of repairs per km and per year (number of repairs/km/year). In Comrat, the LRI is of 4 repairs/km/year. Another indicator is characterizing the water network efficiency, and it is called Linear Loss Index (LLI), it represents the volume of unbilled water per km and per day. In Comrat the LLI is very high, of 20,7 m3/km/day. According to the clasification of the World Bank, for developing countries this indicator implies a an inefficient use of resources, showing a bad maintenance and an inadequate state of the water system in general. It is an urgent need for implementation of urgent measures for reduction of water losses. Although the water network status is unsatisfactory, in Comrat the water is supplied 24 hours per day. Electric energy specific consumption for water supply is of approx. 1.74 kWh/m3. The main consumption group is the population. 90% from the consumers in Comrat city have water meters, which provide evidence of water consumption. The industrial consumers have a little percentage in the water consumption. There is a need for extension of the water network for 33 km. The need for rehabilitation of the water network is of 20 – 50 km. The main challenges for the centralized water supply system in Comrat municipality are: Advanced worn out of the water reservoirs; Advanced worn out of the water netwroks, which contributes to high water losses; The need to develop water networks in order to stop the functioning of the water fountains in the city. 7.2: The Sewerage System in Comrat Muncipality: Comrat municipality has a centralized sewerage system. The existing sewerage system is composed of a network of pipes with a total length of 26 km (16.2 km are in the operator’s assets and another approx. 10 km have been built by the consumers), 1 wastewater pumping station (equipped with new pumps) and a WWTP not functioning. The coverage with sewerage services is of 35.2% in Comrat (3,195 customers).