Reports on Environment and Urban Development for Alaverdy

GEO ALAVERDI: ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Case 1: The ACP’s management fi nds a technological solution to the air pollution issue and make investment to install new technology. In this case the plant continues work without causing damage to the environment and human health. In this case Alaverdi city will remain as developed industrial center with many satellite companies assisting ACP activities and with appropriate high employment rate. Case 2: The ACP’s management doesn’t fi nd a technological solution to the air pollution issue, which means that the plant should be closed Only in that case the city will avoid this enormous load of pollution and start restoring the environmental conditions. In that case, the optimistic scenario supposes the following: The remediation measures for the plant is clearly designed and planned a) by the Government, The Government program addresses the risk of worsening the social- b) economic situation and increase of unemployment by about 400 people. There is a provision in the Government program for creation of temporary job places and simultaneous retraining, The Government program consist provision on alternative possibilities of c) economic development. Consequently , the area of the plant is conserved in a proper way. The Government invests in and contributes to the development of tourism in the city and possible local scale agriculture. Development of manufacture industries is enforced; investments are made in constructing a factory for processing of agricultural products. Incentives are created for the development of small and medium enterprises in the city. In this regard the best perspective is the activation of the railroad communication between Georgia and Armenia, which will contribute to the development of trade and tourism in the city. The municipality approves the long-term health and environmental strategy, which is developed based on detailed studies and investigations, held by experts. All the normative sanitary criteria are satis fi ed in the territory of the city, especially the establishment of a proper land fi ll and construction of a waste processing plant. A chemical, biological and physical waste treatment plant is constructed in accordance with the requirements of the modern technologies. The water supply and wastewater collection network of the city has completely been rehabilitated; the losses are within the range of normal. The medical facilities of the city are reconstructed, furnished and equipped with modern treatment means. The arsenic burial in Madan has been properly conserved, and the upper layers of the soil thereof have been recultivated. The banks and the bed of Debed River are cleaned from solid domestic wastes. The general view and architecture of the

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CHAPTER 6. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

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