Reports on Environment and Urban Development for Alaverdy

GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

capacity 16,3 thousand m 3 /day was constructed and handed into operation for the purpose of treatment of the city wastewaters, which has stopped working from 1991. The main Sarahart district collector and the collectors fl owing to the treatment plant are obsolete and non-operational, as well as the sand fi lter to the wastewater treatment plant, the primary and secondary absorption pools, air decantation pipes, partition walls inside the structure, the contact basin and the building of the chlorination system. All the equipment has been removed from the building. Currently, the wastewaters are discharged directly into the River Debed, without any preliminary treatment, hence resulting in worse sanitary conditions. According to the existing data, the quantity of the discharged water and the runoff comprises 3,5 thousand m 3 /day. The sewage and the collectors need signi fi cant investments to be brought to satisfactory conditions, by restoration of the old and non-operational mains and expansion of the physical network. 4.3 Power supply The current power supply sources toAlaverdi are the 110/35/6 kW“Alaverdi 1”, “Alaverdi 2” and the 35/6 kW “Akner”, “Haghpat” and “Sarahart” power stations with capacities of 2 x 40 MW, 2 x 63,5 MW and 1 x 2,5 MW, respectively. The connection of Alaverdi 2 power station to the energy system is performed through a 220 kW two-port “Kirovakan 2 – Alaverdi 2” and a 110 kW two-port “Alaverdi 2 – Bagratashen” lines. Currently the average monthly energy consumption of Alaverdi is 7640 thousand kW of electricity, 6800 thousand kW of which are consumed by the general population. 4.4 Waste management In order to provide for the normal everyday activity of the population, proper sanitary control is necessary. The community has serious problems in the fi eld of waste management. Starting from 2006, the municipality undertook some urgent actions slightly improved the situation with garbage collection and removal. In the last three years, the community received support from the USAID and the Government of Greece, which was used to purchase and install more than hundred large garbage bins in the community, to obtain the necessary equipment and vehicles, to install a new, more effective system of collection of fees for the removal of waste. With the received support, it became possible to install small street garbage bins in the streets, public buildings, institutions and parks. In addition, the municipality currently owns two new garbage collection trucks. Even though some work has been done to improve and equip the infrastructure;

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CHAPTER 2. SOCIO – ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONTEXT

Environmental Knowledge for Change