Reclamation of a Municipal Landfill - Simitli

This project contains the necessary activities to ensure complete project readiness and technical reclamation of a municipal landfill for non-hazardous waste, Simitli municipality, “Dzoov andak”, about 1 km away from the city regulation, in Property No. 364007, owned by Simitli Municipality, according to Act No 1035 of 05.07.2019 for Public Municipal Property. The landfill is operated from the eighties of the last century until 2017. The area of reclamation - 15 083 sq.m. The Landfill don’t meet Ordinance №6 on the conditions and requirements for construction and exploitation of landfills and other facilities and installations for recovery and disposal of waste. Thus, its exploitation was ceased-Order 419/28.11.2017 of the Director of Regional Inspection on Environment and Water–Blagoevgrad. The main activity for the implementation of this project includes the technical reclamation of the Landfill for non-hazardous solid waste of Simitli Municipality, which will reduce the environmental pollution and prevent the risk to the health of the population. Subsequent biological reclamation will be carried out within the lifetime of the project, according to the activities foreseen in the project documentation. Within the project the following activities will be implemented: engineering (projection, construction and copyright supervision), royalty supervision, organization and management, and information and publicity measures. Resulting from the main project activity, the technical reclamation of the Landfill for non-hazardous solid waste of Simitli Municipality will be completed, since it doesn’t meet the legislation, subject to procedure of violation of the EU legislation in relation to delivered Judgement of the EU Court of 16.07.2015, case C-145/14. The total reclaimed area will be 15 083 sq.m.

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