The Environmental Protection Agency approved the Elaboration of the environmental impact assessment of the construction of four single-family accommodation units (chalets) in Bjelasica.
Those villas are being built by Zoran Bećirović's Ski-resort Kolašin 1450, and the Agency has prescribed a number of measures, which the investor should adhere to during construction, i.e. during the operation of the facilities. Considering that there is no possibility to connect to the sewage network at the location where it will be built, a large part of the measures that the investor has been warned about are related to the functioning of biological waste water purifiers.
It is prescribed, among other things, to regularly control the quality of purified waste water at the outlet, and once every three months it is necessary, as the Agency reminds, to control the level of sludge in them. The establishment of surveillance in the narrow zone of the Kolašin water source was also ordered.
"The investor should enter into a contract with a legal entity that manages public sewage or a person that is registered to perform these tasks for emptying the biological purifier. In order to protect the source of Mušovića Rijeka during the exploitation of facilities, it is necessary to establish supervision in the narrow zone of protection of water sources and their surroundings. According to the Rulebook, the quality of purified wastewater at the outlet from biological purifiers (villas) should meet the conditions for discharge into a natural recipient, in the specific case of an absorption well," the Agency suggested to the investor.
The investor should also be obliged to perform periodic water quality control after leaving the biological purifiers twice a year. The obtained test results, as reminded by the Agency, should be compared with the data specified in the Rulebook on the quality and sanitary-technical conditions for the discharge of waste water, the method and procedure of testing the quality of waste water and the content of the report on the quality of waste water.
"Monitoring is performed by an authorized organization, and the method of testing is defined by standard testing methods. Supervision of these activities is carried out by the environmental inspection. Legal entities that discharge wastewater into the recipient keep records of the frequency of testing, the amount and composition of dangerous and harmful substances, and the content of the Report is defined by the standards of accredited organizations," states the decision approving the Elaboration.
Pursuant to the Law on the Environment, the owner of the building is obliged to submit the monitoring results to the competent local government body and the Agency. In addition, the owner should inform the public about the results of the measurements on his site.
The decision establishes the obligation of the project holder to notify the environmental inspection before the start of the project, so that, in accordance with Article 26 of the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment, it can determine whether all the measures provided for in the Elaboration of Impact Assessment have been implemented.
Miloš Peković, director of the Water and Sewerage Company, recently told "Vijesta" that the location where the construction of facilities within the Kolašin 1450 and Kolašin 1600 mountain centers is planned is upstream from the source of the city's water supply in Mušovića Rijeka. All facilities planned for those two mountain centers are located within the limits of the zone of limited protection regime, i.e. within the limits of the II protection zone (narrower protection zone) of the source of the city's water supply.
The boundaries of the I, II and III protection zones of the source of Mušovića Rijeka are given in the Main Water Supply Project of Kolašin, which was carried out in 1980, and were determined in accordance with the then valid legal regulations.
In the Elaborate, it is written that the disposal of fecal waste water for those facilities will be solved "locally, by building a biological device for the purification of waste water". As specified, "wastewater from the facilities was taken outside the facility in the shortest possible way into the main collection channel and the further planned biological purifier".
"The intended biological purifier of waste sanitary water is made in the form of a container. The purifiers will be located next to the facility in an underground concrete tank that will be built for that purpose. The device consists of a mechanical chamber and a biological reactor," the document says.
Last year, the Directorate for Ecology of the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism told "Vijestma" that wastewater at the Kolašin 1450 and Kolašin 1600 locations will be treated in a treatment plant with a capacity of ES 2.750 (equivalent to that number of inhabitants). But the construction of that facility has not yet started. As they explained, "wastewater from all facilities will be collected in the resort area." Purified water will flow into the left tributary of Duboko potok, the Department of Ecology explained at the time. That stream is a tributary of the Paljevinska river, which flows into Svinjač not far from the source of the city's water supply.
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