30. 12. 2015
The contracts for the construction of the water distribution system in Ribniško-Kočevska dolina, Slovenia have been signed
The operators chosen for the »Supply with drinking water within the
Sodražica – Ribnica – Kočevje area« project signed their contracts at today's
occasional press conference in Kočevje. Dr. Vladimir Prebilič, the mayor of the
Kočevje municipality pointed out the importance of this project for the residents
of all three participating municipalities and ceremoniously signed the
contracts with the contractor's representatives, i.e. Janez Škrabec the
director of the Riko company that is in charge of the water supply network
construction, Boris Savnik, the director of the Hidroinženiring company, chosen
for the purification plant construction and Branko Vodušek from the Dialog-si.net
company, which will be informing the public on the project proceedings and
progress. The entire project will be supervised by the Projekt Nova Gorica
company.
The leading
municipality in this project is the Kočevje municipality, however, the project
also involves two other municipalities, i.e. Sodražica and Ribnica. The purpose
of the project is to assure reliable, safe and healthy water supplies to the
residents of the three involved municipalities, hydraulically improve the water
supply network, enable new network connections and ensure proper purification
of water on the purification plant. The construction work will start in 2016
and is to be finished in October 2019 with a prior preliminary running.
This project
includes the construction of 65,570 meters of water pipes, 11 pumping stations,
4 water towers and 3 purification plants for drinking water. The construction
work will be performed in compliance with two contracts, i.e. Drinking water
supply in the area of Sodražica – Ribnica – Kočevje: Water supply system (FIDIC
Red book) and Drinking water supply in the area of Sodražica – Ribnica –
Kočevje: Purification plants (FIDIC Yellow book).
Thanks to
this project 25,114 people, who live in the three involved municipalities will
be ensured a better and more secure supply with drinking water and 1.312 people
will be connected to the public water supply network; 298 in the Kočevje and 1,014
in the Sodražica municipality. This project did not foresee any new water
sources, its purpose was merely to preserve the already existing water sources,
which are Blate, Slovenska vas, Podstene and the Sodražica bores.