Reports on Environment and Urban Development for Alaverdy

GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The district of Tparani Dzor, doesn’t have any mud fl ow runoff collection 5. system, there is an urgent need to construct a runoff canal. In 2004 the Municipality, in cooperation with the NGOs of the sector, organized and implemented the cleaning of the runoff canals in the districts of Baghramyan and Engels; and in 2006, according to the RA law on “Earmarking and targeted use of environmental fees paid by the industries”, the State Budget has allocated fi nancial means, in a form of a subsidy, to the Municipality of Alaverdi, to partially rehabilitate the runoff canals in the districts of Jravazan, Debed and Khudyakov, within the framework of “Commercial Public Works” project. The runoff canals, even after their cleaning, get polluted by domestic rubbish, construction and other wastes very quickly, which is a result of low level of environmental education of the population, lack of a land fi ll and improper control. As a result, there is a regular necessity to clean the runoff canals, but there is no suf fi cient funding allocated for it. Hence, the risk of fl ooding is permanently present in the city. For example, just recently, on the 16-17 th of June 2009, the fl ood rains and ice-rains in Alaverdi have blocked the runoff canals of the city, the mud fl ows dropped 4 trees and the roads were covered with sludge.

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CHAPTER 4. IMPACT OF THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Knowledge for Change