No more shit in the drinking water
The 270.000 citizens in the Petrozavodsk will benefit when the wastewater treatment facility in the Karelian capital will be upgraded and Lake Onega will be cleaner.
A €32 million investment package will be signed in January intended to finance the improvement of drinking water and reduction of untreated wastewater being discharged into Lake Onega.
Partners in the project are Finland’s Ministry of Environment, Russian government, Petrozavodsk Communal Utilities Systems, City of Petrozavodsk and international financial institutions.
Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) provides €4 million in loans for the project that is also financed by the Nordic Investment Bank, Finnish Ministry of Environment and the Northern Dimension’s Environment Program (NDEP).
The funding will go to recycling and dewatering of sludge generated in the drinking water plant and modernize the wastewater treatment plant by introducing a bio-chemical process, reports the December issue of NEFCO’s Newsletter.
These measures are expected to result in an annual decrease of 49 tons of phosphorus discharges into Lake Onega.
Lake Onega is by far the largest lake in the Barents Region and Europe’s second largest lake.
