The Ministry of Public Works has announced a tender for the selection of a contractor for the closure and recultivation of the temporary storage facility for municipal and non-hazardous construction waste in Bakovići, in the municipality of Kolašin. The job is worth 4,35 million euros excluding VAT.
The Municipality of Kolašin prepared a conceptual design for the recultivation of the Bakovići landfill site in 2023, which it submitted to the then Capital Projects Administration for further action. The tender that the Administration then announced for the preparation of project documentation and works on the closure and recultivation of the temporary storage facility for municipal and non-hazardous construction waste was canceled in May 2024 after the appeal of the company “Bemaks” was upheld.
The company complained about a part of the tender documentation in which bidders were clearly and unambiguously required to use only one type of material - trisoplast (a waterproofing material) from the Dutch company "Trisoplast Mineral Liner". In the complaint, "Bemaks" states that the tender documentation, or rather the conceptual design, even described the performance of this particular material and that the value of part of the works (1,57 million euros) was estimated based on its prices.
The landfill in Bakovići, which is in the immediate vicinity of the Tara River and its tributary Plašnica, has been "temporary" since 1984 and, according to official data, is an unregulated waste disposal site.
Four methods were offered to solve the numerous challenges at that location, and the option “waste recomposition by forming cassettes” was chosen.
As explained, it should be implemented according to the most modern environmental standards, using the so-called "land mining" method - excavation of waste, which is carried out after degassing.
"The waste is returned to the same area, after its removal, a cassette is formed according to the standard for sanitary landfills, lined with waterproof material and equipped with all accompanying facilities. The advantage of this method is that the entire contents of the landfill are moved to a well-maintained, waterproof surface without changing the location. Remediation in this way, although more expensive than others, is suitable for small landfills, primarily due to the elimination of harmful impacts on sensitive ecosystems, such as the Tara watercourse and its underground aquifer," the documentation states.
The planned technical solutions envisage the construction of three cascade cassettes, cut into the slope. The chosen variant, as stated in the study, among other advantages, frees up municipal plots with a total area of 26.500 square meters, which are planned for an industrial zone according to the DUP.
As the executive director of the Kolašin Municipal Company recently told "Vijesti", construction waste is also disposed of at the landfill in Bakovići, and this will only change after the landfill area is recultivated.
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