Closure of temporary municipal waste landfills in Botosani Municipality, Botosani County (SST-BT)
Administrative Territorial Unit Botosani County ·Romania
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Specifically, this project propose interventions on 3 SST, marked separately but located in the same area, creating a compact area of landfills occupying a total area of 3.04 ha, with a storage capacity of 100450 mc and reaching a height of about 8 m. The land on which the 3 SST are located, is in the public domain of the Botosani Municipality of Botosani. The 3 SST</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"> for household waste entered into service in 2012 and ceasing their activity in September 2016. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Since taking over the 3 SST from the sanitation operator SC Urban Serv SA (by HCL no. 281/18.09.2020), UAT Botosani Municipality tried to identify solutions for their permanent closure. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The specific objectives</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif"> of the project are: <strong>1.</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Determination of the impact of the closure of 3 temporary municipal landfills on the environment in 20 months of project implementation; 2. </span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">Planning and implementation of the plan of measures to close the 3 temporary municipal landfills (development of the works - <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">excavations and fillings in the body of the warehouse; <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">re-retention and compaction of the waste; <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">installation of the leachate collection system; application of the final closure layers; <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">storm-water collection works; <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">the storage gas collection system; <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">perimetral fencing and access gate; <span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">the construction of the building elements necessary for the monitoring of the warehouse in the post-closure period; integration works in the landscape)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> 3. Promoting the pilot intervention carried out with the support of the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021, during the 20 months of implementation of the project. </span></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">This will improve the quality of the environment as well as the quality of life of the citizens of Botoşani. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif">The project is considered a pilot one, since its implementation, as proposed in the project, may generate a model of best practice, which might be multiplied by several other territorial administrative units in the country. </span></span></p>
Project partners
- National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection Project partner· Romania