Acronym
SewageLink
NUMBER
PLUA.01.02-IP.01-0013/23
Project type
Regular project
STATUS
During implementation
PRIORITY
ENVIRONMENT
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
1.2 Promoting access to water and sustainable water management
LEAD PARTNER
Executive Committee of the Belz City Council of Lviv region (Lviv Oblast, Ukraine)
PARTNER
Bełżec Municipality (Lubelskie Voivodeship, Ukraine)
Clean water is essential for nature and people to function. Nature knows no limits, polluted water can flow to the other side, that is why it is so important to treat it on both sides of the border. On the area supported by the project, the sewerage and water supply network is incomplete, so the quality of municipal services is poor. Residents and institutions operating in the area have low environmental awareness. There are cases of illegal sewage discharge and illegal waste dumps, which make worse the condition of soil and water, including the Sołokija and Krynica Bełżecka rivers flowing through the project area. This generates a risk of epidemiological hazards.
Main infrastructure activities include the construction of a sanitary sewage system (length about 3.7 km) and 2 sewage treatment plants – in Brzeziny (PL) and Belz (UA). About 540 people will be connected to the network (PL – 290, UA – 250). Promotional activities include: an information and promotional meeting inaugurating the implementation of the project in Belz, 2 study visits to Ukraine and Poland, international scientific and information conference "Ecology and environmental policy of the Polish-Ukrainian borderland. Objectives, methods of implementation and examples of good practices" in Bełżec (PL). Moreover, international scientific and practical conference "European Integration and Environmental Policy", information and promotional meeting at the end of the project in Bełżec Commune as well as a campaign in local and regional media will be organised. It is planned that 175 people will take part in the joint cross-border activities.
All of these measures will help create a cleaner and safer environment for the region's residents. These actions will allow marginalised regions of Polish-Ukrainian borderland to reduce disproportions in water and sewage infrastructure more quickly. This will enable to make better use of the assets, such as improvement of tourist attractiveness.
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